RACGuides_Rac11gR2OnWindows

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Rac11gR2OnWindows.......................................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction........................................................................................................................................1
1.1. Overview of new concepts in 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure...................................................1
1.1.1. SCAN..................................................................................................................1
1.1.2. GNS....................................................................................................................1
1.1.3. OCR and Voting on ASM storage......................................................................1
1.1.4. Intelligent Platform Management interface (IPMI)............................................1
1.1.5. Time sync............................................................................................................2
1.1.6. Clusterware and ASM share the same Oracle Home..........................................2
1.2. System Requirements...................................................................................................................................2
1.2.1. Hardware Requirements................................................................................................................2
1.2.2. Network Hardware Requirements.................................................................................................2
1.2.3. IP Address Requirements..............................................................................................................3
1.2.4. Installation method.......................................................................................................................3
2. Prepare the cluster nodes for Oracle RAC.......................................................................................................3
2.1. User Accounts.................................................................................................................................3
2.1.1. User Account changes specifically for Windows 2008:..................................................3
2.1.2. Net Use Test.....................................................................................................................4
2.1.3. Remote Registry Connect................................................................................................5
2.2. Networking..................................................................................................................................................5
2.2.1. Network Ping Tests.......................................................................................................................6
2.2.2. Network Interface Binding Order (and Protocol Priorities).........................................................7
2.2.3. Disable DHCP Media Sense.........................................................................................................7
2.2.4. Disable SNP Features...................................................................................................................7
2.3. Stopping Services.........................................................................................................................................7
2.4. Synchronizing the Time on ALL Nodes.......................................................................................................8
2.5. Environment Variables................................................................................................................................8
2.6. Stage the Oracle Software............................................................................................................................8
2.7. Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) stage check............................................................................................9
3. Prepare the shared storage for Oracle RAC.....................................................................................................9
3.1. Shared Disk Layout.........................................................................................................................9
3.1.1. Grid Infrastructure Shared Storage..................................................................................9
3.1.2. ASM Shared Storage.....................................................................................................10
3.2. Enable Automount.....................................................................................................................................10
3.3. Clean the Shared Disks..............................................................................................................................10
3.4. Create Logical partitions inside Extended partitions..................................................................................11
3.4.1. View Created partitions..............................................................................................................13
3.5. List Drive Letters.......................................................................................................................................13
3.5.1. Remove Drive Letters.................................................................................................................13
3.5.2. List volumes on Second node.....................................................................................................15
3.6. Marking Disk Partitions for use by ASM...................................................................................................15
3.7. Verify Grid Infrastructure Installation Readiness.......................................................................................17
4. Oracle Grid Infrastructure Install...................................................................................................................18
4.1. Basic Grid Infrastructure Install (without GNS and IPMI)...........................................................18
5. Grid Infrastructure Home Patching................................................................................................................27
6. RDBMS Software Install..............................................................................................................................27
7. RAC Home Patching.....................................................................................................................................31
8. Run ASMCA to create diskgroups................................................................................................................31
9. Run DBCA to create the database.................................................................................................................34