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.........

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