3.7.0 HP StorageWorks HP Scalable NAS File Serving Software provisioning guide for Oracle HP Scalable NAS (AG513-96013, October 2009)

3 System Administrator: deploying
database servers with HP Scalable
NAS
This chapter describes system configuration considerations for the NFS client (the
Oracle server):
• Mounting and linking filesystems for Oracle Home and Oracle data files
• NFS mount options
• Oracle server operating system parameters
Mounting and linking filesystems for Oracle Home
and Oracle data files
As described earlier, you should install the Oracle product ($ORACLE _HOME) on
an NFS mounted filesystem exported from a standard mounted PSFS filesystem
provided by the NAS administrator. The oradata directory (either $ORACLE_BASE/
oradata or $ORACLE_HOME/oradata) needs to be located on a second filesystem,
exported from a dboptimized mounted PSFS filesystem. To maintain the OFA standard,
once the filesystems are mounted, you can simply create a soft link from
[$ORACLE_BASE|$ORACLE_HOME]/oradata to an oradata directory created
within the dboptimized filesystem.
This section continues the earlier example of the exported PSFS filesystems /u03/
app/oracle (standard mounted) and /u04 (dboptimized mounted) created on the
NFS cluster. As root, we create the Oracle user (e.g. “oracle”), and the Oracle groups
(e.g. “oinstall” and “dba”) as uid 500 and gid 1001, 1002.
groupadd -g 1000 dba
groupadd -g 1001 oinstall
useradd -u 500 -g oinstall -G dba -d /home/oracle oracle
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