Install guide

Introduction
1. About This Guide
This manual provides a step-by-step installation of Oracle for High Availability (HA) using the Red Hat
Advanced Platform product, Cluster Suite. T his manual presents both the simple RDBMS Enterprise
Edition failover scenario, as well at Oracle RDBMS Real Applications Clusters (RAC) on Shared GFS file
systems. A sample 2-node cluster is provided for both installation types, and incorporates best practices
that are both common and specific to the chosen method of Cluster Suite HA.
2. Audience
This book is intended to be used by system administrators managing systems running the Linux
operating system. It requires familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS file
systems, Oracle Enterprise Edition HA for Cluster Suite, and Oracle Real Aplication Clusters for Cluster
Suite.
3. Related Documentation
This manual is intended to be a standalone Install Guide, so it should not be necessary to seek out
other manuals, unless further information is required to research configuration customization or
advanced topics. Notes and T ips throughout the document provide some insight into why certain
decisions were made for this guide. Much of that rationale is found in these reference documents, which
provide further information on administering Red Hat Cluster Suite:
Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview — Provides a high level overview of the Red Hat Cluster Suite.
Logical Volume Manager Administration — Provides a description of the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered environment.
Global File System: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,
configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System).
Using Device-Mapper Multipath — Provides information about using the Device-Mapper Multipath
feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Red Hat Cluster Suite Release Notes — Provides information about the current release of Red Hat
Cluster Suite.
Red Hat Cluster Suite documentation and other Red Hat documents are available in HTML, PDF, and
RPM versions on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation CD and online at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/.
4. Feedback
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