Clone R12.1.3 in Windows Cluster environment

Question

Hi Oracle gurus,
I’m currently “fighting” with cloning the already fresh installed R12.1.3 instance on Windows Cluster architecture:
Source system:
Fresh install EBS 12.1.3 on 1 physical server:
- Windows 2008 R2;
- Application on drive D;
- DB 11.2.0.2 on drive E;
Target system (single instance):
- MS Windows failover Cluster – 2 physical servers with shared SAN drives D: and E:
o oracleHQ1 – active;
o oracleHQ2 – passive;
o OracleERP – virtual cluster hostname;
- Windows 2008 R2 on both server’s C: drive;
- ApplicationTier on shared D: ;
- DB on shared E: ;
- Oracle FailSafe on both server’s C: ;
- DB (DB and DB Listener) and Apps (APPS_listener, ConcManager and OPMN) services are running on oracleHQ1 when active; same services started on oracleHQ2 in case of oracleHQ1 (hardware) fail.
- EndUsers logging through one url: http:\\oracleerp.domain.com:8000 to the active server;
- (My customer will prevent hardware failover through this solution.)
What are the steps to clone the source instance to the target, in order to have active/passive failover solution? I prefer to spare the steps, I’ve already done so far, to avoid misleading.
Please advise/guide, as I’m in a stuck for 2 weeks.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
here are the details:
First try:
All the preclone steps are done as per DocID 406982.1
On the target (logged onto oracleHQ1):
-     Successfully cloned and configured the DB with hostname OracleERP (virtual cluster hostname);
-     Successful appsTier adcfgclone.pl and AutoConfig with hostname OracleERP (virtual cluster hostname);
-     All the DB and apps services (named with “*OracleERP*”) are starting on oracleHQ1, except the Concurent Manager (fails 30sec. after start);
-     Not tried to clone on oracleHQ2 with with hostname OracleERP;
Second try:
On the target (logged onto oracleHQ1):
-     Successfully cloned and configured the DB with hostname OracleERP (virtual cluster hostname);
-     Successful appsTier adcfgclone.pl and AutoConfig with hostname oracleHQ1 (virtual cluster hostname);
-     All the DB (named with “*OracleERP*”) and apps services (named with “*oracleHQ1*”) are starting on oracleHQ1;
-     The instance is working fine, but unable to clone the same services on oracleHQ2;
My question is:
Should I clone the DB and the Apps firstly with hostname oracleHQ1 (logged through oracleHQ1), or I should clone it with hostname OracleERP (virtual cluster hostname)? And how are the same services created and configured on the second server oracleHQ2 (should the services have the identical names), in case of failover.
Thank you
Krasen