Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 8.0 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris

To prepare the systems for installing Oracle RAC using response files

1. Make sure that the systems meet the installation requirements.

   For information on requirements, see the chapter System requirements in this document.

2. Complete the following preparatory tasks on the nodes manually or by using the SF Oracle RAC installer:

   • Identify the public virtual IP addresses for use by Oracle

   • Plan for the storage and the private network configuration for Oracle RAC

   • Set the kernel parameters

   • Verify the user "nobody" exists

   • Create Oracle user and groups

   • Set up Oracle user equivalence

   • Edit the Oracle user profile

   For instructions, see the chapter Before installing Oracle RAC in this document.
3. Comment the ORCLudlm pre-requisite check in the crs_prereq.xml file to suppress the check during the installation of Oracle Clusterware.

   Note:

   The silent installation of Oracle Clusterware fails if the ORCLudlm check is not suppressed.

   Change to the directory where you have mounted the Oracle Clusterware software. Navigate to the file stage/prereq/crs/crs_prereq.xml and comment the following line, if present in the file.

   <PREREQUISITEREF NAME="ORCLudlm_check" SEVERITY="Error"/>

   Comment the line as follows:

   <!--PREREQUISITEREF NAME="ORCLudlm_check" SEVERITY="Error"/-->

4. Create response files for Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure and Oracle database installation using the response file template provided by Oracle RAC.

   For instructions on using the response file template, see the Oracle RAC documentation.

   Note:

   Keep at hand the full path of the directory where these response files will be saved. The full path of the Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure response file must be set in the SF Oracle RAC response file variable $CFG{crs_responsefile};. The full path of the Oracle database response file must be set in the SF Oracle RAC response file variable $CFG{db_responsefile};.

5. Create an SF Oracle RAC response file.

   For information on various options available for creating a response file:

   Make sure that you provide the full path information of the Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure and Oracle database response files.

   For guidelines on creating a response file:

   For information on the list of required and optional variables:

   See Response file variable definitions for Oracle RAC.

   For a sample response file:

   See Sample response file for installing Oracle RAC.

6. Make sure that the Oracle user has appropriate read and write permissions on the response files.
7. Make sure that passwordless communication between Oracle users is set up on the nodes of the cluster.