Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris

To configure the MultiPrivNIC and private IP address information

1. From the SF Oracle RAC menu, enter 3 to select the option Oracle Network Configuration.

   1)  Create Oracle Users and Groups
   2)  Create Storage for OCR and Voting disk
   3)  Oracle Network Configuration
   4)  Exit SF Oracle RAC Configuration
   b)  Back to previous menu
   Choose option: [1-4,b,q] (1) 3

2. Enter 3 to select the option Configure private IP addresses (MultiPrivNIC Configuration) - For Oracle RAC prior to 11.2.0.2.

   1) Configure private IP addresses (For HAIP Configuration) 
   - For Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later
   2) Configure private IP addresses (PrivNIC Configuration) 
   - For Oracle RAC prior to 11.2.0.2
   3) Configure private IP addresses (MultiPrivNIC Configuration) 
   - For Oracle RAC prior to 11.2.0.2
   4) Exit SF Oracle RAC Configuration
   b) Back to previous menu
   Choose option: [1-3,b,q] (1) 3

   The installer discovers available LLT links and MultiPrivNIC resources. If MultiPrivNIC resources exist, you can choose to delete and reconfigure the resources using the installer.

   Note:

   The installer only removes the corresponding MultiPrivNIC resources from the configuration file. You must manually disassociate the IP addresses from the corresponding network interfaces and remove the IP addresses from the /etc/hosts file.

3. Enter the name for the MultiPrivNIC resource.

   Enter the MultiPrivNIC resource name: [b] (multi_priv) multi_priv

4. • Enter y to add the IP addresses to the /etc/hosts file.

     Do you want the Installer to add IP addresses in /etc/hosts 
     and /etc/inet/ipnodes files? [y,n,q] (y)

     Note:

     The /etc/inet/ipnodes file is used only for IPv6 address updates. Ignore the reference to the /etc/inet/ipnodes file in the prompt as this release does not support IPv6 addresses.

   • Enter n if you choose to add the IP addresses to the file manually. Go to step 6.

5. Perform this step only if you enabled the installer to add the IP address to the /etc/hosts file in the previous step.

   Provide the private IP address and the private node name for the IP addresses that must be added to the file. When you do not want to enter information at the prompts, enter x.

   Note:

   The IP addresses used for a particular NIC on all nodes of a cluster must be in the same subnet. This subnet must be different from the subnets for the IP addresses on other NICs. Otherwise, Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure and UDP IPC will not be able to communicate properly across the nodes.

   If the private IP address entries are already present in the /etc/hosts file on one of the nodes in the cluster, the installer does not update the file with the specified IP addresses on any of the nodes in the cluster.

   Enter IP addresses for sys1 for net1 separated by space: [b,q,?] 
   192.168.12.1
   Enter Hostname aliases for the above IP addresses 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] sys1-priv
   Enter IP addresses for sys1 for net2 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.2.1
   Enter Hostname aliases for the above IP addresses 
   separated by space: [b,q,?]  sys1-priv1
   Enter IP addresses for sys2 for net1 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.12.2
   Enter Hostname aliases for the above IP addresses 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] sys2-priv
   Enter IP addresses for sys2 for net2 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.2.2
   Enter Hostname aliases for the above IP addresses 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] sys2-priv1

   Go to step 7.

6. Perform this step only if you have chosen to add the IP address to the /etc/hosts file manually.

   Enter the private IP address information.

   Enter IP addresses for sys1 for net1 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.12.1
   Enter IP addresses for sys1 for net2 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.2.1
   Enter IP addresses for sys2 for net1 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.12.2
   Enter IP addresses for sys2 for net2 
   separated by space: [b,q,?] 192.168.2.2

7. Enter the netmask information for the private network:

   Enter the Netmask for private network: [b] (255.255.255.0)

   The SF Oracle RAC installer displays the configured parameters.

8. Enter y to review and confirm the configuration information. The installer adds the MultiPrivNIC resources and updates the /etc/hosts file (if you chose installer-based update).
9. If you chose to add the IP address information to the /etc/hosts file manually, proceed to update the file as described in the following procedure.

10. Verify the MultiPrivNIC configuration updates made by the program in the main.cf file.

    See Verifying the VCS configuration for PrivNIC and MultiPrivNIC.