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Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris
Last Published:
2019-06-18
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.1)
Platform: 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 the cluster name
- Configuring private heartbeat links
- Configuring the virtual IP of the cluster
- Configuring SF Oracle RAC in secure mode
- Configuring a secure cluster node by node
- Adding VCS users
- Configuring SMTP email notification
- Configuring SNMP trap notification
- Configuring global clusters
- Creation of SF Oracle RAC configuration files
- Stopping and starting SF Oracle RAC processes
- 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 SFDB
- Configuring the SF Oracle RAC components using the script-based installer
- Performing an automated SF Oracle RAC configuration
- Configuring SF Oracle RAC using response files
- Response file variables to configure SF Oracle RAC
- Sample response file for configuring SF Oracle RAC
- Configuring I/O fencing using response files
- Response file variables to configure disk-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring disk-based I/O fencing
- Configuring CP server using response files
- Response file variables to configure CP server
- Sample response file for configuring the CP server on SFHA cluster
- Response file variables to configure server-based I/O fencing
- Sample response file for configuring server-based I/O fencing
- 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
- About phased upgrade
- Performing a phased upgrade of SF Oracle RAC from version 6.2.1 and later release
- Step 1: Performing pre-upgrade tasks on the first half of the cluster
- Step 2: Upgrading the first half of the cluster
- Step 3: Performing pre-upgrade tasks on the second half of the cluster
- Step 4: Performing post-upgrade tasks on the first half of the cluster
- Step 5: Upgrading the second half of the cluster
- Step 6: Performing post-upgrade tasks on the second half of the cluster
- Performing a rolling upgrade of SF Oracle RAC
- Upgrading SF Oracle RAC using Live Upgrade or Boot Environment upgrade
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Relinking Oracle RAC libraries with the SF Oracle RAC libraries
- Setting or changing the product license level
- Resetting DAS disk names to include host name in FSS environments
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- CVM master node needs to assume the logowner role for VCS managed VVR resources
- Switching on Quotas
- Upgrading the disk group version
- Section IV. Installation and upgrade of Oracle RAC
- Before installing Oracle RAC
- Important preinstallation information for Oracle RAC
- About preparing to install Oracle RAC
- Preparing to install Oracle RAC using the SF Oracle RAC installer or manually
- Identifying the public virtual IP addresses for use by Oracle
- Setting the kernel parameters
- Verifying that packages and patches required by Oracle are installed
- Verifying the user nobody exists
- Launching the SF Oracle RAC installer
- 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
- Verifying that multicast is functional on all private network interfaces
- Creating Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure and Oracle database home directories manually
- Setting up user equivalence
- Verifying whether the Veritas Membership library is linked to Oracle libraries
- Installing Oracle RAC
- Performing an automated Oracle RAC installation
- Performing Oracle RAC post-installation tasks
- Adding Oracle RAC patches or patchsets
- Configuring the CSSD resource
- Preventing automatic startup of Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure
- Relinking the SF Oracle RAC libraries with Oracle RAC
- Creating the Oracle RAC database
- Configuring VCS service groups for Oracle RAC
- Preventing automatic database startup
- Removing existing PrivNIC or MultiPrivNIC resources
- Removing permissions for communication
- Upgrading Oracle RAC
- Before installing Oracle RAC
- Section V. Adding and removing nodes
- Adding a node to SF Oracle RAC clusters
- About adding a node to a cluster
- Before adding a node to a cluster
- Adding a node to a cluster using the Veritas InfoScale installer
- Adding the node to a cluster manually
- Starting Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) on the new node
- Configuring cluster processes on the new node
- Setting up the node to run in secure mode
- Starting fencing on the new node
- After adding the new node
- Configuring server-based fencing on the new node
- Configuring Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS) on the new node
- Configuring the ClusterService group for 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
- Adding the new node to Oracle RAC
- Adding nodes to a cluster that is using authentication for SFDB tools
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after adding a node
- Sample configuration file for adding a node to the cluster
- Removing a node from SF Oracle RAC clusters
- About removing a node from a cluster
- Removing a node from a cluster
- Modifying the VCS configuration files on existing nodes
- Modifying the Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) configuration on the existing nodes to remove references to the deleted node
- Removing the node configuration from the CP server
- Removing security credentials from the leaving node
- Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after removing a node
- Sample configuration file for removing a node from the cluster
- Adding a node to SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Section VI. Configuration of disaster recovery environments
- Configuring disaster recovery environments
- Disaster recovery options for SF Oracle RAC
- Hardware requirements for campus cluster
- Supported replication technologies for global clusters
- About setting up a campus cluster for disaster recovery
- About setting up a global cluster environment for SF Oracle RAC
- About configuring a parallel global cluster using Volume Replicator (VVR) for replication
- Configuring disaster recovery environments
- Section VII. Installation reference
- Appendix A. Installation scripts
- Appendix B. Tunable files for installation
- About setting tunable parameters using the installer or a response file
- Setting tunables for an installation, configuration, or upgrade
- Setting tunables with no other installer-related operations
- Setting tunables with an un-integrated response file
- Preparing the tunables file
- Setting parameters for the tunables file
- Tunables value parameter definitions
- Appendix C. Sample installation and configuration values
- About the installation and configuration worksheets
- SF Oracle RAC worksheet
- Oracle RAC worksheet
- Replicated cluster using VVR worksheet
- Replicated cluster using SRDF worksheet
- Required installation information for Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure
- Required installation information for Oracle database
- Appendix D. Configuration files
- About VCS configuration file
- About the LLT and GAB configuration files
- About I/O fencing configuration files
- Packaging related SMF services on Solaris 11
- Sample configuration files
- sfrac02_main.cf file
- sfrac03_main.cf file
- sfrac04_main.cf file
- sfrac05_main.cf file
- sfrac06_main.cf file
- sfrac07_main.cf and sfrac08_main.cf files
- sfrac09_main.cf and sfrac10_main.cf files
- sfrac11_main.cf file
- sfrac12_main.cf and sfrac13_main.cf files
- sfrac14_main.cf file
- sfrac15_main.cf and sfrac16_main.cf files
- sfrac17_main.cf file
- Sample configuration files for CP server
- Appendix E. Configuring the secure shell or the remote shell for communications
- About configuring secure shell or remote shell communication modes before installing products
- Manually configuring passwordless ssh
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the installer -comsetup command
- Setting up ssh and rsh connection using the pwdutil.pl utility
- Restarting the ssh session
- Enabling and disabling rsh for Solaris
- 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
- Managing high availability of private interconnects
- Functions of the MultiPrivNIC agent
- Required attributes of the MultiPrivNIC agent
- States of the MultiPrivNIC agent
- Sample service group configuration with the MultiPrivNIC agent
- Type definition of the MultiPrivNIC resource
- Sample configuration of the MultiPrivNIC resource
- CSSD agent
- VCS agents for Oracle
- Oracle agent functions
- Startup and shutdown options for the pluggable database (PDB)
- Recommended startup modes for pluggable database (PDB) based on container database (CDB) startup modes
- Monitor options for the Oracle agent in traditional database and container database
- Monitor for the pluggable database
- Info entry point for Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- Action entry point for Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- Resource type definition for the Oracle agent
- Netlsnr agent functions
- Resource type definition for the Netlsnr agent
- ASMDG agent functions
- Resource type definition for the ASMDG agent
- Oracle agent functions
- CRSResource agent
- Appendix I. SF Oracle RAC deployment scenarios
- SF Oracle RAC cluster with UDP IPC and PrivNIC agent
- SF Oracle RAC cluster for multiple databases with UDP IPC and MultiPrivNIC agent
- SF Oracle RAC cluster with isolated Oracle traffic and MultiPrivNIC agent
- SF Oracle RAC cluster with NIC bonding, UDP IPC, and PrivNIC agent
- Configuration diagrams for setting up server-based I/O fencing
VCS service group dependencies with the CRSResource agent
In a service group configuration with the CRSResource agent, Oracle Clusterware controls the database. An online local firm dependency exists between the groups - Application group, Oracle Clusterware group, and the CVM group.
Figure: Service group dependencies with CRSResource agent shows a schematic illustration of the service group dependencies.
In the configuration:
When the system starts, the CVM group brings up the volume and mount points for the databases. The Oracle Clusterware group brings up the OCR and voting disk, configures the private IP address for Oracle Clusterware, and starts Oracle Clusterware. Oracle Clusterware starts the database and the application is brought online. CRSResource comes online when the Oracle Clusterware resources (database/VIP/listener) are started by Oracle Clusterware.
Note:
When the system starts, all volumes and mount points MUST be online for the dependent service groups to be online.
The oradata_mnt and oradata_voldg resources are configured as non-critical resources (critical=0) for managing failure scenarios.
When CRSResource faults for any of the Oracle Clusterware resources, the application is brought offline.
The limitations of this configuration are as follows:
The CFSMount and CVMVolDg resources can not be set as critical resources in the group.
If the mount points and volume disk groups for all the databases are configured as critical in a single service group, then failure of any of them results in the whole group being FAULTED or brought offline. To ensure that a resource failure does not affect other resources in the group, the attribute Critical is set to zero for the CFSMount and CVMVolDg resources.
However, if any of the database mounts fail to come online or a volume does not start, the whole service group fails to come online.
CRSResource reports as FAULTED until Oracle Clusterware brings up the database instance, VIP, and listener. Even after Oracle Clusterware starts the database instance, VIP and listener, CRSResource remains in the FAULTED state for the OfflineMonitorInterval period. The status of CRSResource cannot be changed.