Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 9th Edition, September 2010

Manual Startup and Shutdown..................................................................................................29
Network Monitoring.......................................................................................................................30
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.......................................................................................................31
Shared Storage.................................................................................................................................31
Network Planning for Cluster Communication...................................................................................31
Planning Storage for Oracle Cluster Software......................................................................................32
Planning Storage for Oracle 10g/11gR1/11gR2 RAC............................................................................32
Volume Planning with SLVM..........................................................................................................32
Storage Planning with CFS..............................................................................................................33
Volume Planning with CVM...........................................................................................................33
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .........................................................................................34
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)............................................35
Veritas Storage Management Products.................................................................................................35
About Multipathing.........................................................................................................................35
About Device Special Files....................................................................................................................36
Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit..........................................................................................................36
SGeRAC Toolkit Maintenance Mode...............................................................................................36
SGeRAC Toolkit...............................................................................................................................37
Configuration File Parameters..............................................................................................................37
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring.....................................................................................37
Single Network for Cluster Communications.................................................................................38
Alternate Configuration—Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Member Timeout.....................38
Alternate Configuration—Multiple RAC Databases......................................................................40
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters.................................................................................41
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used.............................................................41
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not Used......................................................41
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor.............................................................42
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions............................................................................42
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM........................................................................................42
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...................................................................43
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .......................................................................43
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group.................................................................................43
Creating Physical Volumes...................................................................................................43
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring.........................................................43
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands............................................44
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files.............................44
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 ................................................................................48
Exporting with LVM Commands ..............................................................................................48
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.........................................................................................49
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS..........................................................................................49
Creating a SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 10g, 11gR1, or 11gR2.........................................50
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager.........................................................................................50
Deleting CFS from the Cluster.........................................................................................................53
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM.......................................................................................54
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