Deployment Guide

Contents 3

Contents

Terminology Used in this Document. . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Software and Hardware Requirements

. . . . . . . . . . 8

Minimum Software Requirements

. . . . . . . . . . 8

Minimum Hardware Requirements

. . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing and Configuring the Operating System

. . . . 10

Installing the Operating System Using the

Deployment CD/DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Verifying the Temporary Directory Paths. . . . . . 14

Verifying Cluster Hardware and Software Configurations 15

Setting Up Your Fibre Channel Cluster

. . . . . . . . . 16

Before You Begin

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Cabling Your Dell|EMC Fibre Channel Storage

. . . 18

Configuring Networking and Storage for

Oracle RAC 10

g R2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Configuring the Public and Private Networks

. . . 19

Installing the Host-Based Software

Needed for Storage

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Verifying the Storage Assignment to the Nodes

. . 25

Preparing the Disks for Oracle Clusterware . . . . 26

Removing the Assigned Drive Letters . . . . . . . 31

Installing Oracle RAC 10g R2 Using OCFS. . . . . . . . 31

Installing Oracle Clusterware Version 10.2.0.1

. . . 32

Installing Oracle Database 10g R2 with

Real Application Clusters 10.2.0.1

. . . . . . . . . 35

Installing Oracle 10

R2 Patchset 10.2.0.4 . . . . . 36