Application changes for RAC

We are having 8 different applications supported by a single instance database with 8 different schema for each of these applications. We are planning to move these schema to a oracle RAC environment for high-availability reasons. While I am very conformable with setting up the RAC environment( 2 node) , I have questions about how well the applications can function as soon as I migrate all
the schema to the 2 node RAC. My questions are :
a >> Do I need to have the developer change anything in the application code in order to support the RAC.
b >> How can I ensure the load balancing of the application happen after migration
c >> Is there anything I have to do to make sure the application really works well in this environment so as to make the investment in time /money/effort is worthwhile ?
Appreciate your response

You may want to look at any sequences. By default, they will have been created with NOORDER which can cause unexpected results in a clustered database.
And for your other question, are you sure you want load balancing? You said that the purpose of the RAC was high availability, so i would think that you need to look at service and session failover, not load balancing.

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ora....test.cs application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
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an interface / internode VIP failover.
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vi the script $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/racgvip and change the value of
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cvuqdisk
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root.sh
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- script needed to run at install
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crsctl
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- restore voting disk
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- check install periodically
srvctl
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- add filesystem (acfs)
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In all the environments I've worked in, I either had direct su access with knowledge of the root password or used sudo. I really can't imagine an environment that would require something other than either of those two options.
In places with stricter auditing requirements we used sudo in conjunction with the sudosh shell wrapper to log all activities to syslog, but this was used by everyone and not just the DBA
Is SUDO the only solutuion? Every command need to be entered into SUDO config files that necessitates ROOT access.
As I demonstrated in the other thread, giving the oracle user sudo access to files that are writable by the oracle user (eg. root.sh) gives them the ability to access to a root shell. It is good to implement a "minimum privileges necessary" policy in your organization but it has to be within reason. The minimum privilege necessary for running and maintaining CRS is root.
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I'd like to say at the outset that this is a scenario and I am NOT in anyway choosing who does what. A simple -- not so simple -- discussion of roles and responsibilities and associated privileges. If you say that the System Administrator is managing the Grid Infrastructure then this would include all Clusterware and Storage Management (ASM) activities. The System Administrator would manage the OCR and Voting Disks, backups, integrity checks etc. The DBA would then only be responsible for adding the storage within the database itself like assigning tablespaces that reference ASM Disk Groups. This doesn't mean that the DBA can't see the ASM information in the database. The major challenge seems to give your DBA access to the OS, networking and storage tools to preliminarily investigate what they believe to be a OS, networking or storage issue. Without this crossover, your System Administrator may be doing work that is unnecessary. A DBA should have clear understandings of what performance the storage system, cpu, memory and networking should be providing and access to the tools that allow them to understand what side of the fence an issue resides.
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1) Is there a position called RAC DBA or is the RAC portion managed by the System Administrator.
2) If a RAC DBA exists then what should the System Administrator be responsible for
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4) How will access privileges be given to the RAC DBA?
5) other considerations regarding security?
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