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Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation and Configuration?

• Desupported Options for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM 11g Release 2
• New Features for Release 2 (11.2)
• New Features for Release 1 (11.1)

1 Typical Installation for Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

• 1.1 Typical and Advanced Installation
• 1.2 Preinstallation Steps Requiring Manual Tasks
  • 1.2.1 Verify System Requirements
    • 1.2.1.1 Memory Requirements
    • 1.2.1.2 Hardware Requirements
    • 1.2.1.3 Disk Requirements
    • 1.2.1.4 TEMP Space Requirements
  • 1.2.2 Check Network Requirements
    • 1.2.2.1 Single Client Access Name (SCAN) for the Cluster
    • 1.2.2.2 IP Address Requirements
    • 1.2.2.3 Intended Use of Network Adapters
    • 1.2.2.4 Disable the Media Sensing feature for TCP/IP
    • 1.2.2.5 Network Adapter Binding Order and Protocol Priorities
    • 1.2.2.6 Verify Privileges for Copying Files in the Cluster
  • 1.2.3 Install OS Patches and other required software
  • 1.2.4 Configure Operating System Users
  • 1.2.5 Configure the Directories Used During Installation
  • 1.2.6 Check and Prepare Storage
    • 1.2.6.1 Create Disk Partitions
    • 1.2.6.2 Stamp Disks for Oracle ASM
• 1.3 Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software

2 Advanced Installation Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Preinstallation Tasks

• 2.1 Installation Differences Between Windows and Linux or UNIX
• 2.2 Reviewing Upgrade Best Practices
• 2.3 Checking Hardware and Software Certification
  • 2.3.1 View Certification Information at My Oracle Support
  • 2.3.2 Web Browser Support
  • 2.3.3 Windows Telnet Services Support
• 2.4 Checking the Hardware Requirements
• 2.5 Checking the Disk Space Requirements
  • 2.5.1 Disk Format Requirements
  • 2.5.2 Disk Space Requirements for Oracle Home Directories
  • 2.5.3 TEMP Disk Space Requirements
• 2.6 Checking the Network Requirements
  • 2.6.1 Network Hardware Requirements
  • 2.6.2 IP Address Requirements
    • 2.6.2.1 IP Address Requirements with Grid Naming Service
    • 2.6.2.2 IP Address Requirements for Manual Configuration
  • 2.6.3 DNS Configuration for Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
  • 2.6.4 Grid Naming Service Configuration Example
  • 2.6.5 Manual IP Address Configuration Example
  • 2.6.6 Network Interface Configuration Options
• 2.7 Identifying Software Requirements
  • 2.7.1 Windows Firewall Feature on Windows Servers
• 2.8 Network Time Protocol Setting
  • 2.8.1 Configuring the Windows Time Service
  • 2.8.2 Configuring Network Time Protocol
  • 2.8.3 Configuring Cluster Time Synchronization Service
• 2.9 Enabling Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
  • 2.9.1 Requirements for Enabling IPMI
  • 2.9.2 Configuring the IPMI Management Network
  • 2.9.3 Configuring the IPMI Driver
    • 2.9.3.1 Configuring the Hardware Management Component
    • 2.9.3.2 Configuring the BMC Using ipmiutil on Windows 2003 R2
• 2.10 Checking Individual Component Requirements
  • 2.10.1 Oracle Advanced Security Requirements
  • 2.10.2 Oracle Enterprise Manager Requirements
• 2.11 Configuring User Accounts
  • 2.11.1 Managing User Accounts with User Account Control
• 2.12 Verifying Cluster Privileges

3 Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC

• 3.1 Reviewing Storage Options
  • 3.1.1 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 3.1.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
    • 3.1.2.1 Guidelines for Placing Oracle Data Files on a File System
    • 3.1.2.2 Guidelines for Placing Oracle Recovery Files on a File System
  • 3.1.3 Supported Storage Options for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC
  • 3.1.4 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 3.2 Preliminary Shared Disk Preparation
  • 3.2.1 Disabling Write Caching
  • 3.2.2 Enabling Automounting for Windows
• 3.3 Storage Requirements for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC
  • 3.3.1 Requirements for Using a Cluster File System for Shared Storage
  • 3.3.2 Identifying Storage Requirements for Using Oracle ASM for Shared Storage
    • 3.3.2.1 Using an Existing Oracle Automatic Storage Management Disk Group
  • 3.3.3 Restrictions for Disk Partitions Used By Oracle ASM
  • 3.3.4 Requirements for Using a Shared File System
  • 3.3.5 Requirements for Files Managed by Oracle
• 3.4 Configuring the Shared Storage Used by Oracle ASM
  • 3.4.1 Creating Disk Partitions for Oracle ASM
  • 3.4.2 Marking Disk Partitions for Oracle ASM Prior to Installation
    • 3.4.2.1 Overview of asmtoolg and asmtool
    • 3.4.2.2 Using asmtoolg (Graphical User Interface)
    • 3.4.2.3 Using asmtool (Command Line)
  • 3.4.3 Configuring Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS)
  • 3.4.4 Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
• 3.5 Configuring Storage for Oracle Database Files on OCFS for Windows
  • 3.5.1 Formatting Drives to Use OCFS for Windows after Installation
• 3.6 Configuring Direct NFS Storage for Oracle RAC Data Files
  • 3.6.1 About Direct NFS Storage
  • 3.6.2 About the Oranfstab File for Direct NFS
  • 3.6.3 Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS
  • 3.6.4 Specifying Network Paths for a NFS Server
  • 3.6.5 Enabling the Direct NFS Client
  • 3.6.6 Performing Basic File Operations Using the ORADNFS Utility
  • 3.6.7 Disabling Direct NFS Client
• 3.7 Desupport of Raw Devices

4 Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

• 4.1 Preparing to Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with OUI
• 4.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure with OUI
  • 4.2.1 Running OUI to Install Grid Infrastructure
  • 4.2.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Cluster Configuration File
  • 4.2.3 Silent Installation of Oracle Clusterware
• 4.3 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Software-Only Installation
  • 4.3.1 Installing the Software Binaries
  • 4.3.2 Configuring the Software Binaries
• 4.4 Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
• 4.5 Confirming Oracle ASM Function for Oracle Clusterware Files

5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures

• 5.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks
  • 5.1.1 Download and Install Patch Updates
  • 5.1.2 Configure Exceptions for the Windows Firewall
    • 5.1.2.1 Firewall Exceptions for Oracle Database
    • 5.1.2.2 Firewall Exceptions for Oracle Database Examples (or the Companion CD)
    • 5.1.2.3 Firewall Exceptions for Oracle Gateways
    • 5.1.2.4 Firewall Exceptions for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM
    • 5.1.2.5 Firewall Exceptions for Oracle RAC Database
    • 5.1.2.6 Firewall Exceptions for Oracle Cluster File System for Windows
    • 5.1.2.7 Firewall Exceptions for Other Oracle Products
• 5.2 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
  • 5.2.1 Install Troubleshooting Tool
    • 5.2.1.1 Installing Instantaneous Problem Detection OS Tool (IPD/OS)
  • 5.2.2 Optimize Memory Usage for Programs
  • 5.2.3 Create a Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
    • 5.2.3.1 About the Fast Recovery Area and the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
    • 5.2.3.2 Creating the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
• 5.3 Using Older Oracle Database Versions with Grid Infrastructure
  • 5.3.1 General Restrictions for Using Older Oracle Database Versions
  • 5.3.2 Pinning Cluster Nodes for Oracle Database Release 10.x or 11.x
  • 5.3.3 Enabling the Global Services Daemon (GSD) for Oracle Database Release 9.2
  • 5.3.4 Using the Correct LSNRCTL Commands
• 5.4 Modifying Oracle Clusterware Binaries After Installation

6 How to Modify or Deinstall Oracle Grid Infrastructure

• 6.1 Deciding When to Deinstall Oracle Clusterware
• 6.2 Adding Standalone Grid Infrastructure Servers to a Cluster
• 6.3 Deconfiguring Oracle Clusterware without Removing Binaries
• 6.4 Removing Oracle Clusterware and ASM
  • 6.4.1 About the Deinstallation Command
  • 6.4.2 Example of Running the Deinstall Command for Oracle Clusterware and ASM
  • 6.4.3 Example Parameter File for Deinstall of Oracle Grid Infrastructure

A Troubleshooting the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Process

• A.1 General Installation Issues
• A.2 About the Oracle Clusterware Alert Log
• A.3 Oracle Clusterware Install Actions Log Errors and Causes
  • A.3.1 The OCFS for Windows format is not recognized on one or more of the remote cluster nodes
  • A.3.2 You are on a Windows 2003 system, and Automount of new drives is not enabled:
  • A.3.3 Symbolic links for disks were not removed
  • A.3.4 Discovery string used by Oracle ASM is incorrect
  • A.3.5 You used a period in one of the node names during Oracle Clusterware install
  • A.3.6 Ignoring upgrade failure of ocr(-1073740972)
• A.4 Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
• A.5 Interconnect Configuration Issues

B Installing and Configuring Oracle Grid Infrastructure Using Response Files

• B.1 About Response Files
  • B.1.1 Reasons for Using Silent Mode or Response File Mode
  • B.1.2 General Procedure for Using Response Files
• B.2 Preparing a Response File
  • B.2.1 Editing a Response File Template
  • B.2.2 Recording a Response File
• B.3 Running the Installer Using a Response File
• B.4 Running Net Configuration Assistant Using a Response File
• B.5 Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
  • B.5.1 About the Postinstallation Configuration File
  • B.5.2 Running Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File

C Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts

• C.1 Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
  • C.1.1 Understanding Oracle Groups and Users
    • C.1.1.1 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
  • C.1.2 Understanding the Oracle Base Directory Path
  • C.1.3 Understanding Network Addresses
    • C.1.3.1 About the Public IP Address
    • C.1.3.2 About the Private IP Address
    • C.1.3.3 About the Virtual IP Address
    • C.1.3.4 About the Grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address
    • C.1.3.5 About the SCAN
  • C.1.4 Understanding Network Time Requirements
• C.2 Understanding Storage Configuration
  • C.2.1 Understanding Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS)
  • C.2.2 About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances

D How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2

• D.1 Restrictions for Clusterware and Oracle ASM Upgrades to Grid Infrastructure
• D.2 Understanding Out-of-Place and Rolling Upgrades
• D.3 Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
  • D.3.1 Verify System Readiness for Patches and Upgrades
  • D.3.2 Gather the Necessary System Information
  • D.3.3 Upgrade to the Minimum Required Oracle Clusterware Version
  • D.3.4 Unset Environment Variables
• D.4 Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
• D.5 Upgrading Oracle Clusterware
• D.6 Upgrading Oracle Automatic Storage Management
  • D.6.1 About Upgrading Oracle ASM
  • D.6.2 Using ASMCA to Upgrade Oracle ASM
• D.7 Updating DB Control and Grid Control Target Parameters
• D.8 Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade

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