Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Release Notes (5900-1513, April 2011)

Changes in the SF Oracle RAC installer
This section lists the changes in the SF Oracle RAC installer.
Option to start and stop SF Oracle RAC
You can use the -start and -stop options with the SF Oracle RAC installer to
start and stop SF Oracle RAC.
Installer resilience
If the installation or configuration of SF Oracle RAC fails, the installer discovers
the presence of an installer instance when you run the installer again. The installer
provides an option to resume the installation.
Adding nodes to a cluster
The SF Oracle RAC installer now provides the following capabilities for adding
nodes to a cluster:
■ Configures SF Oracle RAC and adds nodes to an existing SF Oracle RAC cluster.
■ Performs the following Oracle RAC pre-installation tasks:
■ Creates Oracle user and groups on the new node.
■ Configures the private IP addresses and the PrivNIC resource for Oracle
Clusterware (only if the IP addresses on the existing cluster are configured
as PrivNIC resources).
■ Configures private IP addresses and the MultiPrivNIC resource for Oracle
Clusterware and Oracle UDP IPC (only if the IP addresses on the existing
cluster are configured as MultiPrivNIC resources).
■ If the CFSMount and CVMVolDg resources for OCR and voting disk are
configured under the cvm service group, the installer brings them online
after adding the node to the cluster.
■ Starts the cvm group on the new node
Options to install minimum, recommended, or all SF Oracle
RAC depots
The installer now provides the following options for installing SF Oracle RAC:
■ Minimal
Install only the basic functionality of SF Oracle RAC.
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes
Changes introduced in version 5.1 Service Pack 1
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