Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 7th Edition, September 2008

Preface

The Seventh edition of the manual includes information for Logical Volume Manager (See

“Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM” (page 43)), Serviceguard Extension for RAC

(Oracle Real Application Cluster) Version A.11.18 on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3, Veritas Cluster

File System (CFS)/Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) from Symantec version 5.0, Cluster

Interconnect Subnet Monitoring feature, SGeRAC Toolkit.

This guide covers how to use the Serviceguard Extension for RAC (Oracle Real Application

Cluster) to configure Serviceguard clusters for use with Oracle Real Application Cluster software

on HP High Availability clusters running the HP-UX operating system. The contents are as

follows:

• Chapter 1, “Introduction,” describes a Serviceguard cluster and provides a roadmap for

using this guide. This chapter should be used as a supplement to Chapters 1–3 of the Managing

Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Chapter 2, “Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 10g RAC,” describes the additional steps

you need to take to use Serviceguard with Real Application Clusters when configuring

Oracle 10g RAC. This chapter should be used as a supplement to Chapters 4–6 of the Managing

Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Chapter 3, “Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 9i RAC,” describes the additional steps

you need to take to use Serviceguard with Real Application Clusters when configuring

Oracle 9i RAC. This chapter should be used as a supplement to Chapters 4–6 of the Managing

Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Chapter 4, “Maintenance and Troubleshooting,” describes tools and techniques necessary

for ongoing cluster operation. This chapter should be used as a supplement to Chapters 7–8

of the Managing Serviceguard user’s guide.

• Appendix A, “Software Upgrades,” describes rolling, non-rolling and migration with cold

install upgrade procedures for SGeRAC clusters.

• Appendix B, “Blank Planning Worksheets,” contains planning worksheets for LVM, VxVM,

and Oracle Logical Volume.

Related Publications

The following documents contain additional useful information:

• Clusters for High Availability: a Primer of HP Solutions. Hewlett-Packard Professional Books:

Prentice Hall PTR, 2001 (ISBN 0-13-089355-2)

• Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes (T1907-90041)

• HP Serviceguard Version A.11.18 Release Notes (B3935-90119)

• Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition (B3936-90122)

• HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes

(T2771-90043)

• Using High Availability Monitors (B5736-90046)

• Using the Event Monitoring Service (B7612-90015)

• Using Advanced Tape Services (B3936-90032)

• Managing Serviceguard Extension for SAP (T1859-90043)

• Managing Systems and Workgroups (5990-8172)

• Managing Serviceguard NFS (B5140-90017)

• HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management HP-UX 11i Version 3

Before attempting to use VxVM storage with Serviceguard, please refer to the following: