Veritas Storage Foundation™ 5.0.1 for Oracle RAC Installation, Configuration, and Administrator's Guide Extracts for the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite on HP-UX 11i v3

Overview of SGeRAC Installation and Configuration Tasks

Phases involved in installing and configuring SF 5.0 for Oracle RAC include:

• Preparing to install and configure SF Oracle RAC

• Installing SF Oracle RAC and configuring its components

• Installing Oracle RAC and creating Oracle RAC database

• Setting up disaster recovery in SF Oracle RAC environment (optional)

• Setting up backup and recovery feature for SF Oracle RAC (optional)

Figure 2-9 describes a high-level flow of the SF 5.0 for Oracle RAC installation and configuration

process. Most of these processes are described in the HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC Guide

and the HP Storage Management Suite Guide.

Figure 2-1 SGeRAC Installation and Configuration Flow Chart

Install SGeRAC

Choose

Oracle

version

Install Oracle 10g R2

Create database

Conﬁgure GCO (optional)

Migrate database

Conﬁgure service groups

Create or

migrate

database

Install Oracle 10g R1 Install Oracle9i R2

Installation complete

Conﬁgure backup and

recovery feature (optional)

Setting up Backup and Recovery Feature for SGeRAC (optional)

You can configure the following SGeRAC optional features to back up and recover data at the

volume and file system levels:

• Veritas Storage Checkpoint

Allows efficient backup and recovery of Oracle RAC databases. This feature is available

with SF Oracle RAC as part of the Veritas File System.

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