Preface

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows explains how to configure a server in preparation for installing and configuring an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management). It also explains how to configure a server and storage in preparation for an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) installation.

Intended Audience

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management in a grid infrastructure for a cluster installation.

For customers with specialized system roles who intend to install Oracle RAC, this book is intended to be used by system administrators, network administrators, or storage administrators to configure a system in preparation for an Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a cluster installation, and complete all configuration tasks that require Administrative user privileges. When grid infrastructure installation and configuration is completed successfully, a system administrator should only need to provide configuration information and to grant access to the database administrator to run scripts that require Administrative user privileges during an Oracle RAC installation.

This guide assumes that you are familiar with Oracle Database concepts. For additional information, refer to books in the Related Documents list.

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Related Documents

For more information, refer to the following Oracle resources:

Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Documentation

This installation guide reviews steps required to complete an Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management installation, and to perform preinstallation steps for Oracle RAC.

If you intend to install Oracle Database or Oracle RAC, then complete the preinstallation tasks as described in this installation guide, complete grid infrastructure installation, and review those installation guides for additional information. You can install either Oracle databases for a standalone server on a grid infrastructure installation, or install an Oracle RAC database. If you want to install an Oracle Restart deployment of Oracle Clusterware, then refer to Oracle Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows

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Installation Guides

• Oracle Diagnostics Pack Installation Guide

• Oracle Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Linux and UNIX

Operating System-Specific Administrative Guides

• Oracle Database Administrator's Reference, 11g Release 2 (11.2) for UNIX Systems

• Oracle Database Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows

Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrative Guides

• Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle Database Storage Administrator's Guide

Oracle Real Application Clusters Administrative Guides

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Getting Started with the Oracle Diagnostics Pack

Generic Documentation

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database New Features Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Reference

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Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: