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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
Sample response file for configuring server-based I/O fencing
The following is a sample response file used for server-based I/O fencing:
$CFG{fencing_config_cpagent}=0;
$CFG{fencing_cps}=[ qw(10.200.117.145) ];
$CFG{fencing_cps_vips}{"10.200.117.145"}=[ qw(10.200.117.145) ];
$CFG{fencing_dgname}="vxfencoorddg";
$CFG{fencing_disks}=[ qw(emc_clariion0_37 emc_clariion0_13
emc_clariion0_12) ];
$CFG{fencing_scsi3_disk_policy}="dmp";
$CFG{fencing_ncp}=3;
$CFG{fencing_ndisks}=2;
$CFG{fencing_cps_ports}{"10.200.117.145"}=443;
$CFG{fencing_reusedg}=1;
$CFG{opt}{configure}=1;
$CFG{opt}{fencing}=1;
$CFG{prod}="ENTERPRISE741";
$CFG{systems}=[ qw(sys1 sys2) ];
$CFG{vcs_clusterid}=1256;
$CFG{vcs_clustername}="clus1";
$CFG{fencing_option}=1;