Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.20 - (August 2011)

Network Monitoring...........................................................................................................28
SGeRAC Heartbeat Network..........................................................................................28
CSS Heartbeat Network.................................................................................................28
RAC Cluster Interconnect................................................................................................28
Public Client Access.......................................................................................................28
RAC Instances........................................................................................................................28
Automated Startup and Shutdown........................................................................................28
Manual Startup and Shutdown............................................................................................29
Shared Storage.................................................................................................................29
Network Planning for Cluster Communication.............................................................................29
Planning Storage for Oracle Cluster Software.............................................................................30
Planning Storage for Oracle 10g/11gR1/11gR2 RAC..................................................................30
Volume Planning with SLVM................................................................................................31
Storage Planning with CFS..................................................................................................31
Volume Planning with CVM.................................................................................................31
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC .................................................................................33
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)...........................................33
Veritas Storage Management Products.......................................................................................33
About Multipathing............................................................................................................33
About Device Special Files.......................................................................................................33
About Cluster-wide Device Special Files (cDSFs).....................................................................34
Configuration File Parameters...................................................................................................35
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring..............................................................................35
Single Network for Cluster Communications..........................................................................36
Alternate Configuration—Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Member Timeout.........................37
Alternate Configuration—Multiple RAC Databases.................................................................38
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters..........................................................................39
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used........................................................39
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not Used..................................................39
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor...........................................................40
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions.......................................................................40
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM.................................................................................40
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks...............................................................41
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes .................................................................41
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group..........................................................................41
Creating Physical Volumes.........................................................................................41
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring......................................................42
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands.............................................42
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files..............................42
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..................................................................45
Oracle Demo Database Files ..............................................................................................45
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure ..............................................................................46
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure ...........................................................................46
Exporting with LVM Commands ......................................................................................46
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters.................................................................................47
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS.................................................................................47
Creating an SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 11gR1 or 11gR2...........................................48
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager................................................................................48
Deleting CFS from the Cluster..............................................................................................51
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM................................................................................52
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager................................................................................52
Using CVM 5.x or later......................................................................................................53
Preparing the Cluster and the System Multi-node Package for use with CVM 5.x or later.........53
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