Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris
- Section I. Configuring SF Oracle RAC
- Preparing to configure SF Oracle RAC
- Configuring SF Oracle RAC using the script-based installer
- Configuring the SF Oracle RAC components using the script-based installer
- Configuring the SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Configuring SF Oracle RAC in secure mode
- Configuring a secure cluster node by node
- Configuring the SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Setting up disk-based I/O fencing using installer
- Setting up server-based I/O fencing using installer
- Configuring the SF Oracle RAC components using the script-based installer
- Performing an automated SF Oracle RAC configuration
- Section II. Post-installation and configuration tasks
- Verifying the installation
- Performing additional post-installation and configuration tasks
- Section III. Upgrade of SF Oracle RAC
- Planning to upgrade SF Oracle RAC
- Performing a full upgrade of SF Oracle RAC using the product installer
- Performing an automated full upgrade of SF Oracle RAC using response files
- Performing a phased upgrade of SF Oracle RAC
- Performing a phased upgrade of SF Oracle RAC from version 6.2.1 and later release
- Performing a rolling upgrade of SF Oracle RAC
- Upgrading SF Oracle RAC using Live Upgrade or Boot Environment upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Section IV. Installation and upgrade of Oracle RAC
- Before installing Oracle RAC
- Preparing to install Oracle RAC using the SF Oracle RAC installer or manually
- Creating users and groups for Oracle RAC
- Creating storage for OCR and voting disk
- Configuring private IP addresses for Oracle RAC 11.2.0.1
- Configuring private IP addresses for Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later versions
- Installing Oracle RAC
- Performing an automated Oracle RAC installation
- Performing Oracle RAC post-installation tasks
- Configuring the CSSD resource
- Relinking the SF Oracle RAC libraries with Oracle RAC
- Configuring VCS service groups for Oracle RAC
- Upgrading Oracle RAC
- Before installing Oracle RAC
- Section V. Adding and removing nodes
- Adding a node to SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Adding a node to a cluster using the Veritas InfoScale installer
- Adding the node to a cluster manually
- Setting up the node to run in secure mode
- Configuring server-based fencing on the new node
- Preparing the new node manually for installing Oracle RAC
- Adding a node to the cluster using the SF Oracle RAC response file
- Configuring private IP addresses for Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later versions on the new node
- Removing a node from SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Adding a node to SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Section VI. Configuration of disaster recovery environments
- Configuring disaster recovery environments
- Configuring disaster recovery environments
- Section VII. Installation reference
- Appendix A. Installation scripts
- Appendix B. Tunable files for installation
- Appendix C. Sample installation and configuration values
- SF Oracle RAC worksheet
- Appendix D. Configuration files
- Sample configuration files
- Sample configuration files for CP server
- Appendix E. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- Appendix F. Automatic Storage Management
- Appendix G. Creating a test database
- Appendix H. High availability agent information
- About agents
- CVMCluster agent
- CVMVxconfigd agent
- CVMVolDg agent
- CFSMount agent
- CFSfsckd agent
- PrivNIC agent
- MultiPrivNIC agent
- CSSD agent
- VCS agents for Oracle
- Oracle agent functions
- Resource type definition for the Oracle agent
- Resource type definition for the Netlsnr agent
- Resource type definition for the ASMDG agent
- Oracle agent functions
- CRSResource agent
- Appendix I. SF Oracle RAC deployment scenarios
- Configuration diagrams for setting up server-based I/O fencing
Testing the disks using vxfentsthdw utility
This procedure uses the /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 disk in the steps.
If the utility does not show a message that states a disk is ready, the verification has failed. Failure of verification can be the result of an improperly configured disk array. The failure can also be due to a bad disk.
If the failure is due to a bad disk, remove and replace it. The vxfentsthdw utility indicates a disk can be used for I/O fencing with a message resembling:
The disk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 is ready to be configured for I/O Fencing on node sys1
For more information on how to replace coordinator disks, refer to the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Administrator’s Guide.
To test the disks using vxfentsthdw utility
- Make sure system-to-system communication functions properly.
- From one node, start the utility.
- The script warns that the tests overwrite data on the disks. After you review the overview and the warning, confirm to continue the process and enter the node names.
Warning:
The tests overwrite and destroy data on the disks unless you use the -r option.
******** WARNING!!!!!!!! ******** THIS UTILITY WILL DESTROY THE DATA ON THE DISK!! Do you still want to continue : [y/n] (default: n) y Enter the first node of the cluster: sys1 Enter the second node of the cluster: sys2
- Review the output as the utility performs the checks and reports its activities.
- If a disk is ready for I/O fencing on each node, the utility reports success for each node. For example, the utility displays the following message for the node sys1.
The disk is now ready to be configured for I/O Fencing on node sys1
ALL tests on the disk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 have PASSED The disk is now ready to be configured for I/O fencing on node sys1
- Run the vxfentsthdw utility for each disk you intend to verify.
Note:
Only dmp disk devices can be used as coordinator disks.