Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 8th Edition, March 2009

Manual Startup and Shutdown..................................................................................................29
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/11gR1 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
SGeRAC Toolkit Maintenance Mode...............................................................................................36
SGeRAC Toolkit...............................................................................................................................36
Configuration File Parameters..............................................................................................................36
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring.....................................................................................37
Single Network for Cluster Communications.................................................................................37
Alternate Configuration - Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Member Timeout......................38
Alternate Configuration - Multiple RAC Databases.......................................................................39
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters.................................................................................40
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used.............................................................40
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not used......................................................40
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor.............................................................41
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions............................................................................41
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM........................................................................................41
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...................................................................42
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .......................................................................42
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group.................................................................................42
Creating Physical Volumes...................................................................................................42
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring.........................................................42
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands............................................43
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files.............................43
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Data Files...........................................................43
Creating RAC Volume Groups on Disk Arrays .............................................................................44
Creating Logical Volumes for RAC on Disk Arrays.......................................................................46
Oracle Demo Database Files ...........................................................................................................46
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure ....................................................................................47
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure ................................................................................47
Exporting with LVM Commands ..............................................................................................47
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.........................................................................................48
Cluster Configuration ASCII File.........................................................................................................48
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS..........................................................................................54
Creating a SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 10g or 11gR1......................................................54
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager.........................................................................................55
Deleting CFS from the Cluster.........................................................................................................58
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