Building Disaster Recovery Serviceguard Solutions Using Metrocluster with EMC SRDF

Configuring SADTA..........................................................................................................104
Setting up replication.......................................................................................................104
Configuring Metrocluster with sites.....................................................................................104
Creating a Serviceguard cluster with sites configured.......................................................104
Configuring the CFS multi-node package (SMNP)............................................................105
Installing and configuring Oracle clusterware......................................................................106
Configuring the network...............................................................................................106
Configuring the storage device for installing Oracle clusterware........................................107
Setting up CRS OCR and VOTING directories ................................................................107
Installing and configuring Oracle clusterware..................................................................108
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for the site Oracle clusterware sub-cluster.................109
Installing and configuring Oracle RAC................................................................................109
Creating the RAC database at the local site........................................................................110
Setting up CFS file systems for RAC Database data files ..................................................110
Setting up CFS file systems for RAC database flash recovery.............................................111
Creating the RAC database using the Oracle Database Configuration Assistant..................112
Configuring and testing RAC MNP stack at the local disk site ..........................................112
Halting the RAC database on the local disk site..............................................................112
Creating identical RAC database at the remote site .............................................................112
Configuring the replica RAC database...........................................................................113
Configuring the RAC MNP stack at the recovery cluster....................................................114
Halting the RAC database on the recovery cluster............................................................115
Configuring an empty Site Controller package.....................................................................115
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies...................................................................116
Modifying Site Controller to manage RAC MNP stack packages............................................116
Starting the disaster tolerant RAC database in the Metrocluster..............................................117
Configuring client access for Oracle database 10gR2 RAC...................................................117
Configuring SGeRAC cluster interconnect subnet monitoring..................................................118
Configuring and administration restrictions..........................................................................119
Configuring Oracle RAC database with ASM in a SADTA..........................................................119
Setting up replication.......................................................................................................121
Configuring Metrocluster with sites.....................................................................................121
Installing and configuring Oracle clusterware......................................................................121
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for every Oracle clusterware sub-cluster...................121
Installing Oracle RAC software..........................................................................................122
Creating the RAC database with ASM................................................................................122
Configuring the ASM disk group ..................................................................................122
Configuring SGeRAC toolkit packages for the ASM disk group.........................................122
Creating the Oracle RAC database...............................................................................122
Configuring and testing the RAC MNP stack at the Source Disk Site...................................122
Halting the RAC database on the Source Disk Site...........................................................122
Setting up identical RAC database at the target disk site.......................................................123
Configuring the Identical ASM Disk Group at the Target Disk Site......................................123
Configuring the identical RAC database.........................................................................124
Configuring the Site Controller package..............................................................................125
Configuring the Site Safety Latch dependencies...................................................................126
Starting the disaster tolerant Oracle RAC database with ASM in the Metrocluster.....................126
Failure scenarios in Metrocluster for RAC.................................................................................126
Oracle RAC database failure ............................................................................................126
Oracle RAC database instance failure................................................................................127
Oracle RAC database Oracle Clusterware daemon failure....................................................127
Administering Metrocluster for RAC.........................................................................................127
Online addition and deletion of nodes...............................................................................127
Adding nodes online on a primary site where the RAC database is running........................127
Adding nodes online on a remote site where the RAC database is down............................128
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