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Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 8.0.2 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Linux
Last Published:
2023-06-05
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.2)
Platform: Linux
- 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 7.3.1 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 Volume Replicator
- Performing post-upgrade tasks
- Relinking Oracle RAC libraries with the SF Oracle RAC libraries
- Re-joining the backup boot disk group into the current disk group
- Reverting to the backup boot disk group after an unsuccessful upgrade
- 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 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 RPMs 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
- 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
- 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
- Updating the CSS misscount setting
- 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 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
- 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 rsh for Linux
- 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
- 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
- Appendix J. Configuring LLT over UDP
- Using the UDP layer for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv4
- Broadcast address in the /etc/llttab file
- The link command in the /etc/llttab file
- The set-addr command in the /etc/llttab file
- Selecting UDP ports
- Configuring the netmask for LLT
- Configuring the broadcast address for LLT
- Sample configuration: direct-attached links
- Sample configuration: links crossing IP routers
- Using the UDP layer of IPv6 for LLT
- Manually configuring LLT over UDP using IPv6
- About configuring LLT over UDP multiport
- Appendix K. Using LLT over RDMA
- Using LLT over RDMA
- About RDMA over RoCE or InfiniBand networks in a clustering environment
- How LLT supports RDMA capability for faster interconnects between applications
- Using LLT over RDMA: supported use cases
- Configuring LLT over RDMA
- Choosing supported hardware for LLT over RDMA
- Installing RDMA, InfiniBand or Ethernet drivers and utilities
- Configuring RDMA over an Ethernet network
- Configuring RDMA over an InfiniBand network
- Tuning system performance
- Manually configuring LLT over RDMA
- LLT over RDMA sample /etc/llttab
- Verifying LLT configuration
- Troubleshooting LLT over RDMA
- IP addresses associated to the RDMA NICs do not automatically plumb on node restart
- Ping test fails for the IP addresses configured over InfiniBand interfaces
- After a node restart, by default the Mellanox card with Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) gets configured in InfiniBand mode
- The LLT module fails to start
Verifying the cluster nodes
Verify the information of the cluster systems using the hasys -display command. The information for each node in the output should be similar.
Refer to the hasys(1M) manual page.
Refer to the Cluster Server Administrator's Guide for information about the system attributes for VCS.
To verify the cluster nodes
- On one of the nodes, type the hasys -display command:
# hasys -display
The example in the following procedure is for RHEL and it shows the output when the command is run on the node sys1. The list continues with similar information for sys2 (not shown) and any other nodes in the cluster.
#System Attribute Value sys1 AgentsStopped 0 sys1. AvailableCapacity CPU 6.56 Mem 9512.00 Swap 7502.00 sys1 CPUThresholdLevel Critical 90 Warning 80 Note 70 Info 60 sys1 CPUUsage 0 sys1 CPUUsageMonitoring Enabled 0 ActionThreshold 0 ActionTimeLimit 0 Action NONE NotifyThreshold0 NotifyTimeLimit 0 sys1 Capacity CPU 8.00 Mem 15825.00 Swap 8075.00 sys1 ConfigBlockCount 464 sys1 ConfigCheckSum 9539 sys1 ConfigDiskState CURRENT sys1 ConfigFile /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config sys1 ConfigInfoCnt 0 sys1 ConfigModDate Tue 16 May 2023 10:19:14 PM IST sys1 ConnectorState Down sys1 CurrentLimits sys1 DiskHbStatus sys1 DynamicLoad sys1 EngineRestarted 0 sys1 EngineVersion 8.0.2.0000 sys1 FencingWeight 0 sys1 Frozen 0 sys1 GUIIPAddr sys1 HostAvailableForecast CPU 7.08 Mem 9321.00 Swap 7502.00 sys1 HostUtilization CPU 18 Mem 39 Swap 7 sys1 LLTNodeId 0 sys1 LicenseType PERMANENT_SITE sys1 Limits sys1 LinkHbStatus ens192 UP ens256 UP sys1 LoadTimeCounter 0 sys1 LoadTimeThreshold 600 sys1 LoadWarningLevel 80 sys1 MemThresholdLevel Critical 90 Warning 80 Note 70 Info 60 sys1 MeterRecord AvailableGC 5161 ForecastGC 5114 sys1 NoAutoDisable 0 sys1 NodeId 0 sys1 OnGrpCnt 7 sys1 PhysicalServer sys1 ReservedCapacity sys1 ServerAvailableCapacity sys1 ServerAvailableForecast sys1 ServerCapacity sys1 ServerReservedCapacity sys1 ShutdownTimeout 600 sys1 Site sys1 SourceFile ./main.cf sys1 SupportedProtocol 7.4.2.0000 10000 8.0.0.0000 11000 sys1 SwapThresholdLevel Critical 90 Warning 80 Note 70 Info 60 sys1 SysInfo Linux:sys1,#1 SMP Fri Apr 15 22:12:19 EDT 2022,4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64,x86_64 sys1 SysName sys1 sys1 SysState RUNNING sys1 SystemLocation sys1 SystemOwner sys1 SystemRecipients sys1 TFrozen 0 sys1 TRSE 0 sys1 UpDownState Up sys1 UserInt 0 sys1 UserStr sys1 VCSFeatures DR sys1 VCSMode VCS