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InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Linux
Last Published:
2025-08-11
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
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 7.4.1 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 SF Oracle RAC using YUM
- 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
- 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
About support for InfoScale upgrade using YUM
InfoScale (9.0 onwards) provides an additional method to upgrade the product using the Yellowdog Updater Modified (YUM) tool. This method does not require the use of the InfoScale Common Product Installer (CPI). The YUM upgrade method is designed to accommodate minor OS version upgrades as well as application upgrades.
This method employs a single-node reboot to finalize the upgrade process, thus eliminating application downtime and the need to evacuate the Cluster Server (VCS) resource, if applicable.
Consider the following requirements and limitations before you use YUM to upgrade InfoScale:
The YUM upgrade method is available on the RHEL platform only.
With InfoScale 9.0, the method supports upgrades from InfoScale 8.x to 9.x only.
With InfoScale 9.0.2, the method supports upgrades from InfoScale 7.4.x to 9.x. Specifically, you can upgrade from the 7.4.1.3100, 7.4.1.3300 (additional patch for RHEL 8.7), and 7.4.2.5600 patches through 9.x.
The method supports rolling upgrades or full upgrades.
The method does not support rollback operations like yum history rollback and yum history undo.
The method is compatible with YUM and DNF commands, both. Dandified YUM (DNF) is a successor to YUM and employs a similar command structure.
In the pre-reboot phase, where you have run the yum update command but have not yet rebooted the node, InfoScale continues to work as the previous version. The features and functionality of the upgraded InfoScale version are not available until the node has rebooted successfully.
The pre-reboot phase may also enforce other restrictions. For example, in InfoScale storage environments, you cannot update the VxVM tunables.
During the pre-reboot phase, if the following services are not running before you run the yum update command, make sure that you do not start them before the node reboots:
veki
vxfs
vxglmservice
vxgmsservice
vxodm
During the execution of the yum update command, any scheduled Secure File System (SecureFS) jobs and File Replicator (VFR) jobs are temporarily skipped. After the command completes its execution successfully, the jobs resume and run as per the configured schedule.