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

Replacing a Lock Disk.................................................................................................161
On-line Hardware Maintenance with In-line SCSI Terminator .................................161
Replacement of I/O Cards.................................................................................................163
Replacement of LAN Cards..............................................................................................163
Off-Line Replacement..................................................................................................163
On-Line Replacement..................................................................................................164
After Replacing the Card.............................................................................................164
Monitoring RAC Instances...............................................................................................165
A Software Upgrades ...............................................................................................................167
Rolling Software Upgrades...............................................................................................168
Steps for Rolling Upgrades .........................................................................................168
Keeping Kernels Consistent...................................................................................169
Example of Rolling Upgrade ......................................................................................169
Step 1. ....................................................................................................................170
Step 2. ....................................................................................................................171
Step 3. ....................................................................................................................172
Step 4. ....................................................................................................................173
Step 5. ....................................................................................................................174
Limitations of Rolling Upgrades ................................................................................175
Non-Rolling Software Upgrades......................................................................................176
Steps for Non-Rolling Upgrades ................................................................................176
Limitations of Non-Rolling Upgrades ........................................................................176
Migrating a SGeRAC Cluster with Cold Install..........................................................177
B Blank Planning Worksheets......................................................................................................179
LVM Volume Group and Physical Volume Worksheet....................................................179
VxVM Disk Group and Disk Worksheet .........................................................................179
Oracle Logical Volume Worksheet...................................................................................180
Index........................................................................................................................................183
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