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

Network Monitoring.......................................................................................................................29
SGeRAC Heartbeat Network.....................................................................................................30
CSS Heartbeat Network.............................................................................................................30
RAC Cluster Interconnect..........................................................................................................30
Public Client Access...................................................................................................................30
RAC Instances.......................................................................................................................................30
Automated Startup and Shutdown.................................................................................................30
Manual Startup and Shutdown.......................................................................................................30
Shared Storage.................................................................................................................................31
Network Planning for Cluster Communication...................................................................................31
Planning Storage for Oracle Cluster Software......................................................................................32
Planning Storage for Oracle 10g RAC..................................................................................................32
Volume Planning with SLVM..........................................................................................................32
Storage Planning with CFS..............................................................................................................32
Volume Planning with CVM...........................................................................................................33
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .........................................................................................34
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)............................................34
Veritas Storage Management Products.................................................................................................35
About Multipathing.........................................................................................................................35
About Device Special Files....................................................................................................................35
Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit ..........................................................................................................35
Configuration File Parameters..............................................................................................................36
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring.....................................................................................36
Single Network for Cluster Communications.................................................................................36
Alternate Configuration - Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Timeout....................................37
Alternate Configuration - Multiple RAC Databases.......................................................................39
Faster Failover Configuration (SGeFF and SGeRAC).....................................................................40
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters.................................................................................41
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used.............................................................41
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not used......................................................42
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor.............................................................42
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions............................................................................42
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM........................................................................................43
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...................................................................43
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .......................................................................44
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group.................................................................................44
Creating Physical Volumes...................................................................................................44
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring.........................................................44
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands............................................45
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files.............................45
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Data Files...........................................................45
Creating RAC Volume Groups on Disk Arrays .............................................................................46
Creating Logical Volumes for RAC on Disk Arrays.......................................................................47
Oracle Demo Database Files ...........................................................................................................47
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure ....................................................................................48
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure ................................................................................49
Exporting with LVM Commands ..............................................................................................49
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.........................................................................................49
Cluster Configuration ASCII File.........................................................................................................50
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS..........................................................................................52
Creating a SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 10g.....................................................................53
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager.........................................................................................53
Deleting CFS from the Cluster.........................................................................................................56
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM.......................................................................................57
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager.........................................................................................57
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