HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC (SGeRAC) manual Contents

Network Monitoring	28
SGeRAC Heartbeat Network	28
CSS Heartbeat Network	28
RAC Cluster Interconnect	28
Public Client Access	28
RAC Instances	28
Automated Startup and Shutdown	28
Manual Startup and Shutdown	29
Shared Storage	29
Network Planning for Cluster Communication	29
Planning Storage for Oracle Cluster Software	30
Planning Storage for Oracle 10g/11gR1/11gR2 RAC	30
Volume Planning with SLVM	31
Storage Planning with CFS	31
Volume Planning with CVM	31
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC	33
Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Cluster File System (CFS)	33
Veritas Storage Management Products	33
About Multipathing	33
About Device Special Files	33
About Cluster-wide Device Special Files (cDSFs)	34
Configuration File Parameters	35
Cluster Communication Network Monitoring	35
Single Network for Cluster Communications	36
Alternate Configuration—Fast Reconfiguration with Low Node Member Timeout	37
Alternate Configuration—Multiple RAC Databases	38
Guidelines for Changing Cluster Parameters	39
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is used	39
When Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring is not Used	39
Limitations of Cluster Communication Network Monitor	40
Cluster Interconnect Monitoring Restrictions	40
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM	40
Building Volume Groups for RAC on Mirrored Disks	41
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes	41
Selecting Disks for the Volume Group	41
Creating Physical Volumes	41
Creating a Volume Group with PVG-Strict Mirroring	42
Building Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC with LVM Commands	42
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Redo Logs and Control Files	42
Creating Mirrored Logical Volumes for RAC Data Files	43
Creating RAC Volume Groups on Disk Arrays	44
Creating Logical Volumes for RAC on Disk Arrays	45
Oracle Demo Database Files	45
Displaying the Logical Volume Infrastructure	46
Exporting the Logical Volume Infrastructure	46
Exporting with LVM Commands	46
Installing Oracle Real Application Clusters	47
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CFS	47
Creating an SGeRAC Cluster with CFS for Oracle 11gR1 or 11gR2	48
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager	48
Deleting CFS from the Cluster	51
Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM	52
Initializing the Veritas Volume Manager	52
Using CVM 5.x or later	53
Preparing the Cluster and the System Multi-node Package for use with CVM 5.x or later	53

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