Designing Disaster Recovery Clusters using Metroclusters and Continentalclusters, Reprinted October 2011 (5900-1881)

Halting the RAC Database on the Source Disk Site
After creating the RAC database on the source disk site, you must halt it to replicate it on the target
disk site. If you are using 11g R2 RAC, you must change the remote_listener for the database
before halting the RAC database MNP stack as explained in step 1.
1. When using Oracle 11g R2 with ASM, the remote_listener for the database is set to the
<SCAN name>:<port number> by default. But, in the Metrocluster for RAC configuration, the
SCAN name is different for each site CRS subcluster. So, the remote_listener for the database
must be changed to the net service name configured in the tnsnames.ora for the database.
This task must be done prior to halting the RAC database stack on the Source Disk Site:
a. Log in as the Oracle user.
# su – oracle
b. Export the database instance on the node. In this example, hrdb1 is database instance
running on this node.
export ORACLE_SID=”hrdb1”
c. Alter the remote listener:
# sqlplus “/ as sysdba”
d. At the prompt, enter the following:
SQL> show parameter remote_listener;
SQL> alter system set remote_listener=’hrdb’;
2. Halt the RAC MNP Stack on the replication Source Disk Site node:
# cmhaltpkg <site1_rac_db_pkg> <site1_asmdg_pkg1>
Setting up Identical RAC Database at the Target Disk Site
In the earlier procedures, the RAC database was created at the site with the source disk of the
replication disk group, referred as the source disk site. A RAC MNP stack was also created at that
site. Now, an identical RAC database using the target replicated disk must be configured with the
RAC MNP stack. The site to which the data is replicated is referred as Target Disk Site in this
section.
Prior to setting up an identical RAC database at the target disk site, the data replication must first
be split such that the target disk is in the Read/Write mode. The procedure to split the replication
depends on the type of arrays that are configured in the environment. Based on the arrays in your
environment, see the respective chapters of this manual to configure replication. After preparing
the replicated disk at the target disk site, a storage device must be configured. For more information
on configuring a storage device, see “Configuring the Storage Device for Complex Workload at
the Target Disk Site” (page 353).
Configuring the Identical ASM Disk Group at the Target Disk Site
This procedure is required only if you are using Oracle 11g R1 with ASM. This procedure is not
required for Oracle 11g R2. In this procedure, the source disk site is referred as site1 and the
target disk site is referred as site2.
Complete the following procedure to configure the identical ASM disk group for Oracle 11g R1
with ASM:
1. Create the Oracle admin directory at the target disk site, if it is not already created.
In this example, run the following command from the first node in site1:
cd /opt/app/oracle
rcp -r admin <site2_node1>:$PWD
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