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

Verifying Oracle Disk Manager is Configured...................................................................88
Configuring Oracle to Use Oracle Disk Manager Library.................................................88
Verify that Oracle Disk Manager is Running.....................................................................89
Configuring Oracle to Stop Using Oracle Disk Manager Library......................................90
Using Serviceguard Packages to Synchronize with Oracle 10g RAC................................90
Preparing Oracle Cluster Software for Serviceguard Packages....................................91
Configure Serviceguard Packages.................................................................................91
3 Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 9i RAC............................................................................93
Planning Database Storage.................................................................................................93
Volume Planning with SLVM........................................................................................93
Storage Planning with CFS............................................................................................94
Configuration Combinations with Oracle 9i RAC...................................................94
Using Single CFS Home or Local Home..................................................................95
Considerations on using CFS for RAC datafiles and Server Management Storage
(SRVM).....................................................................................................................95
Considerations on using Raw Volumes for RAC datafiles and Server Management
storage (SRVM)........................................................................................................95
Volume Planning with CVM.........................................................................................96
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .......................................................................97
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)..........................97
Veritas Storage Management Products..............................................................................98
About Multipathing......................................................................................................98
About Device Special Files.................................................................................................98
Operating System Parameters............................................................................................99
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM......................................................................99
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...............................................100
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes ...................................................100
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group.............................................................100
Creating Physical Volumes...............................................................................101
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring.....................................101
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands........................102
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files.........102
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Data Files.......................................102
Creating RAC Volume Groups on Disk Arrays .........................................................103
Creating Logical Volumes for RAC on Disk Arrays...................................................105
Oracle Demo Database Files .......................................................................................105
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure ................................................................106
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure ............................................................107
Exporting with LVM Commands ..........................................................................107
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.....................................................................108
Cluster Configuration ASCII File.....................................................................................108
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS.....................................................................111
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