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

■ Updating the network configuration
Installation simulator
You can use the option -makeresponsefile with the installer script to simulate
an installation, configuration, or uninstallation activity.
Oracle RAC installation
The SF Oracle RAC installer includes several enhancements for performing Oracle
RAC pre-installation tasks.
Table 1-1 lists the changes and new features in the SF Oracle RAC installer for
Oracle tasks.
Table 1-1
Changes in the SF Oracle RAC installer for Oracle tasks
DescriptionOracle task
■ The installer checks the Oracle user and group IDs in use
and suggests unused values.
Oracle user and group
creation
■ The installer creates CVM volume mirrors for OCR and
voting disk
■ The installer creates the OCR and voting disk volumes and
sets the ownership
■ The installer starts the volumes
■ If you choose to create the storage on CFS, the installer
creates the mount point, mounts it on all the nodes, and sets
the ownership for the CFS mount point
■ The installer adds the volume and mount point resources
to the VCS configuration so that the resources are brought
online automatically when the node starts.
■ The installer brings the resources online
OCR and voting disk
configuration
■ The installer no longer asks for the NIC information for the
IP addresses, but uses all the available LLT links in the
cluster for high availability purposes.
■ The installer provides the option to automatically update
the /etc/hosts file during the private network
configuration to include IP addresses used by PrivNIC or
MultiPrivNIC resources.
PrivNIC and
MultiPrivNIC
configuration
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes
Changes introduced in version 5.1 Service Pack 1
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