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Installing SF Oracle RAC and configuring its components

Install SF Oracle RAC on clusters of up to eight nodes; note that a global cluster environment only allows a maximum of two nodes per cluster. In addition to installing SF 5.0 for Oracle RAC, you can also upgrade an existing cluster to SF 5.0 for Oracle RAC.

See Installing and configuring SF Oracle RAC components

See Upgrading SF Oracle RAC

Installing and configuring SF Oracle RAC involves:

 

Installing SF Oracle RAC 

Use the Veritas product installer or the installsfrac program. 

On each node, the interactive installer installs depots for: 

  • Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
  • Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
  • Veritas File System (VxFS)
  • Veritas High Availability Agent for Oracle
  • Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
  • Other SF Oracle RAC modules

Performing system checks to configure SF Oracle RAC 

Use the Veritas product installer or installsfrac -configure option of installsfrac program. 

The installer guides you to perform basic system checks. 

Configuring SF Oracle RAC stack 

Use the Veritas product installer or installsfrac -configure option of installsfrac program. 

After you perform basic system checks, you can configure the SF Oracle RAC components: 

  • VCS
  • CVM, Veritas Volume Manager enabled for clusters
  • CFS, Veritas File System enabled for clusters
  • VVR (optional)

The installer also starts the SF Oracle RAC processes. 

Setting up I/O fencing 

Manually configure I/O fencing feature for SF Oracle RAC: 

  • Set up coordinator disks for the I/O fencing feature into a disk group.
  • Set the UseFence=SCSI3 attribute in the configuration file.
  • Shut down and restart the node.


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