Setting up an SF Oracle RAC campus cluster for disaster recovery


Setting up an SF Oracle RAC campus cluster for disaster recovery
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Perform the following high-level tasks to setup an SF Oracle RAC campus cluster:

Preparing to set up campus cluster configuration
Configuring I/O fencing to prevent data corruption
Preparing to install Oracle RAC Clusterware and database binaries
Configuring VxVM disk groups for campus cluster
Installing Oracle RAC Clusterware and database binaries
Configuring VCS service groups

The sample configuration used to illustrate the configuration procedures includes a four-node SF Oracle RAC campus cluster with two nodes at each site. Each node has SF Oracle RAC 5.1 on Solaris.

Table: Sample setup for campus cluster

Site	Hardware description
Site 1: SFRAC1	Servers: galaxy and nebula Shared LUNs: disk01 disk02 disk03 disk04 (used as coordinator disk) disk5
Site 2: SFRAC2	Servers: mercury and jupiter Shared LUNs: disk06 disk07 disk08 disk09 (used as coordinator disk)
Site 3	Shared LUN disk10 (used as coordinator disk)

Site

Hardware description

Site 1: SFRAC1

Servers: galaxy and nebula

Shared LUNs:

disk01

disk02

disk03

disk04 (used as coordinator disk)

disk5

Site 2: SFRAC2

Servers: mercury and jupiter

Shared LUNs:

disk06

disk07

disk08

disk09 (used as coordinator disk)

Site 3

Shared LUN disk10 (used as coordinator disk)

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