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

Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .....................................................56
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group...............................................................56
Creating Physical Volumes.................................................................................57
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring.......................................57
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands..........................58
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files...........58
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Data Files.........................................58
Creating RAC Volume Groups on Disk Arrays ...........................................................59
Creating Logical Volumes for RAC on Disk Arrays.....................................................61
Oracle Demo Database Files .........................................................................................61
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure ..................................................................62
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure ..............................................................62
Exporting with LVM Commands ............................................................................63
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.......................................................................64
Cluster Configuration ASCII File.......................................................................................64
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS.......................................................................67
Creating a SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 10g...................................................67
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager......................................................................68
Deleting CFS from the Cluster......................................................................................72
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM.....................................................................73
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager......................................................................73
Using CVM 4.x or later..................................................................................................74
Preparing the Cluster and the System Multi-node Package for use with CVM 4.x
or later......................................................................................................................74
Mirror Detachment Policies with CVM..............................................................76
Using CVM 3.x..............................................................................................................76
Preparing the Cluster for Use with CVM 3.x...........................................................76
Starting the Cluster and Identifying the Master Node.......................................77
Converting Disks from LVM to CVM.................................................................77
Initializing Disks for CVM..................................................................................78
Creating Disk Groups for RAC...........................................................................78
Creating Volumes...............................................................................................................78
Mirror Detachment Policies with CVM.........................................................................79
Oracle Demo Database Files ..............................................................................................79
Adding Disk Groups to the Cluster Configuration............................................................81
Prerequisites for Oracle 10g (Sample Installation).............................................................81
Installing Oracle 10g Cluster Software...............................................................................85
Installing on Local File System......................................................................................85
Installing Oracle 10g RAC Binaries....................................................................................86
Installing RAC Binaries on a Local File System............................................................86
Installing RAC Binaries on Cluster File System............................................................86
Creating a RAC Demo Database........................................................................................86
Creating a RAC Demo Database on SLVM or CVM.....................................................86
Creating a RAC Demo Database on CFS......................................................................87
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