Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 6th Edition, April 2008

Monitoring...............................................................................................................37
Allowed Characters for Oracle 10g RAC Cluster Names........................................37
Shared Storage...............................................................................................................37
Multipath .................................................................................................................37
OCR and Vote Device...............................................................................................37
Mirroring and Resilvering.......................................................................................38
Shared Storage Activation........................................................................................38
Listener..........................................................................................................................38
Automated Startup and Shutdown.........................................................................38
Manual Startup and Shutdown...............................................................................38
Network Monitoring.....................................................................................................38
SGeRAC Heartbeat Network...................................................................................39
CSS Heartbeat Network...........................................................................................39
RAC Cluster Interconnect........................................................................................39
Public Client Access.................................................................................................39
RAC Instances.....................................................................................................................39
Automated Startup and Shutdown...............................................................................39
Manual Startup and Shutdown.....................................................................................40
Shared Storage...............................................................................................................40
Network Planning for Cluster Communication.................................................................40
Planning Storage for Oracle Cluster Software....................................................................41
Planning Storage for Oracle 10g RAC................................................................................42
Volume Planning with SLVM........................................................................................42
Storage Planning with CFS............................................................................................42
Volume Planning with CVM.........................................................................................43
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .......................................................................44
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)..........................44
Veritas Storage Management Products..............................................................................45
About Multipathing......................................................................................................45
About Device Special Files.................................................................................................45
Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit .......................................................................................46
Configuration File Parameters............................................................................................46
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring...................................................................47
Single Network for Cluster Communications...............................................................47
Alternate Configuration - Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Timeout..................48
Alternate Configuration - Multiple RAC Databases.....................................................50
Faster Failover Configuration (SGeFF and SGeRAC)...................................................51
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters...............................................................53
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used..........................................53
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not used....................................54
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor...........................................54
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions.........................................................55
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM......................................................................55
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks.................................................56
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