Oracle 10g RAC installation for SLES9 system with installation scripts.

Shared disk media – ASM on iSCSI on NetApp network server

Document version: 1.2

Last modified: 5/13/2005

Alexei Roudnev, senior system and network engineer, Exigengroup USA. (http://www.exigengroup.com)

Contact: Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com

alex @ Relcom . net

Warning. It is not OFFICIAL document. It is not supported, verified or approved by any vendor (SuSe/Novell, Oracle, Network Appliances). Use it on your own risk.

Scripts can be taken from: ../../SLES9-ORA10RAC-iSCSI-ASM.tgz

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TABLE OF CONTENT:

Part 1. Introduction.

Part 2: System and network installations.

Part 3: CRS (cluster Ready Servcies) installation.

Part 4: Database server installation.

Part 5: Basics of RAC management.

Part 6: APPENDIX.

Part 7: CHECKLIST.

Please, before installation, print CHECKLIST and run thru it.

This installation tested (few times) on:

• NetApp FAS270c, DELL 2850 (2 CPU) servers, SLES9 ServicePack1 AND SLES9 ServicePack2/Beta3 (in 64 bit mode), Oracle 10.1.0.3 Enterprise Edition.
• DELL 1650, SLES9 ServicePack1, in 32 bit mode on 1 node, Oracle 10.1.0.3 Standard Edition, and patchset for Oracle 10.1.0.4.

Text styles.

Here is example of output:

testrac12# vi /etc/iscsi.conf

Here is example of script source:

File xxx.sh:

#!/bin/sh

. CONFIG.sh

rciscsi start

(FireFox and Mozilla can show script sources and output in wrong colour and wrong format).

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This document has been made public as a courtesy to partner agreement with Novell.