HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Version A.05.01.01 on Linux User Guide (December, 2012)

MNP (Multi-node Package) is used to encapsulate the per node ASM instances, with one or more
Oracle single instance failover packages dependent on this MNP. This configuration enables the
database instance to start up in the right order in relation to the ASM instance, and in the event
of a failover, to relocate only to a node where an ASM instance is available.
To configure Oracle database using ASM in a Serviceguard environment:
1. Configuring ASM in a Serviceguard environment and creating the ASM instance.
a. Configure logical volumes or devices to be used in the ASM disk groups.
b. Install the Oracle standalone server GRID (needed in 11gR2) and ASM binaries in local
storage on all the nodes. You can skip the step c, in case, ASM instance is created in
this step through OUI.
c. Create the ASM instance on one node by creating a ASM disk group (DG) with raw
logical volumes or raw devices. Ensure that logical volume or raw device used here are
accessible from all the cluster nodes.
d. Create the ASM instance on the other cluster nodes by specifying different ASM DG name
and using different raw logical volumes or raw devices.
e. Copy the parameter file or server parameter file of the ASM instance to all the nodes with
appropriate file permissions.
2. Creating the Oracle database in a Serviceguard environment.
a. Install the Oracle binaries on local storage in ORACLE_HOME on all the nodes configured
in the cluster.
b. Create the database instance on one node by using ASM DG name which has been
created on that node.
c. Optional: Configure a listener.
d. Copy the parameter file or server parameter file of the database instance to all the nodes
with appropriate file permissions.
e. Distribute the listener configuration file if listener is configured, listener.ora from
${ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin/ to all the cluster nodes.
f. Copy the directories from ${ORACLE_HOME}/admin to all the nodes.
g. Halt the ASM instance, database instance, and the listener (if configured) on all the nodes.
10 Supported configuration