Info required : Oracle Clusterware 11g and Veritas (SFRAC) storage

Hello,
One of my requirement is to Install Oracle clusterware 11g on top of Veritas Cluster. That is because we are using Veritas Storage.
OS : Solaris 10
Please share any iinformation on this regard.
Thanks,
Kam

Hi Kamalesh,
thanks, sorry, if I was not clear enough in my answer.
The reason, I pointed you to the Veritas documentation, was to say that IF there is a certain patch to be applied dependent of the Veritas SFRAC version you use, either for Oracle or for Veritas, this should be described in the Veritas documentation (as well as the respective certification note(s) provided in My Oracle Support -> Certification, as you can only use a certified combination of SFRAC and Oracle RAC on the same system). The Veritas documentation will also describe the installation and configuration of the stack.
The main issues I have seen with such systems is mainly the configuration: The Veritas SFRAC and Oracle Clusterware need to integrate (the skgxn is the point of integration), which would result in a default misscount for Oracle Clusterware of 600 seconds (instead of the typical 30 seconds in an Oracle Only Stack). You can check the misscount and skgxn used in the cssd log. It will mention so during startup.
If the installation of the two cluster solutions is performed the right way (as described in the documentation linked), then this integration will happen during the installation of Oracle Clusterware, which is important, as it is very hard to enable it later and you will most likely have to re-install Oracle Clusterware. So, preparation is important here.
Once you installed the stack, you should be fine regarding patches, as Oracle would recommend the same patches for such a stack as for any other. Veritas might have additional recommendations, though. The same applies when thinking about rolling patches. Those are probably not possible due to dependencies on the underlying vendor cluster solution in such cases (exceptions might apply and you need to ask Veritas). Oracle Clusterware and the rest of the stack would remain to be rolling upgradeable as documented for cases, in which no vendor cluster is used.
As you can see, running such a configuration is more complex. You need to think about two layers and you need to ask two vendors any time you are in doubt of a procedure to be sure again. This may influence the stability of the system. Commonwealth Bank of Australia therefore decided 3 years ago to move away from having Veritas as the underlying cluster solution under Oracle Clusterware and use the Oracle Only Stack.
Now, I know that you have the necessity to use Veritas due to the storage management and other Oracle customers made this point before. However, with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Rel. 2 and the newly introduced ACFS cluster file system, more and more of them realize that Veritas does not provide them with enough benefits to not only pay for something that does not even make the stack easier.
Hope that helps (this time) - at least a bit. Thanks,
Markus

Similar Messages

Oracle Express 11g and Instant Client

I installed Oracle Express 11g on a Win 7 32 bit machine.
I verified from another machine I could connect to this instance using SqlPlus.
On a different Win 7 32 bit machine I downloaded and installed instant client.
I'm unable to connect to the Oracle Express 11g instance.
Firewall is turned off and User Account Control is set as low as it will go.
I set the PATH as it tells you too.
I did create a TNS_ADMIN pointing to tnsnames file I'm using.
But when I try connecting in SqlPlus using 'system @ dbname' I keep getting the following error message:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
I'm out of options.

http://edstevensdba.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/ora-12154tns-03505/
HTH
Srini

Two oracle home 11g and 10g

hi all
i have al-ready installed oracle 11g on my xp and created database then
when i want to install oracle 10g .it installed sucessfully
but i cannot connect to any of the oracle software
as i put the SAME oracle_base for both the ORACLE 11g and oracle 10g
Can anyone help me how to have two oracle home on a single machine xp?
Thanks
Misin

Hi,
there isnt any problem.
During instalation you set ORACLE_BASE. It could be the same for both version but you have to set diffrent ORACLE_HOME
Samething like this
(it's on linux but the same is on win )
echo $ORACLE_BASE
/opt/app/oracle
for 10g
echo $ORACLE_HOME
/opt/app/oracle/product/10/db10g
for 11g
echo $ORACLE_HOME
/opt/app/oracle/product/11/db11g
Now when do you want to run 10g set 10g enviroment and for 11g ORACLE_HOME form 11g.
REgards,
Tom
http://oracledba.cz

Need info regarding Oracle UCM Accounts and Security Groups behaviour

Need information regarding Oracle UCM Accounts and Security Groups behaviour.
Oracle UCM version: 11.1.1.5.0
Steps:
1. Log in with "weblogic" user and created a content with id "content1"
2. Applied "@acc1(R)" and "TestGroup1" to the cotent created in step 1
3. Log out
4. Log in as "acc1user1", the user is not able to see the "content1"
5. Log out
6. Log in as "role1user1", the user is not able to see the "content1"
Account and Group information:
1. User "acc1user1" is part of "@acc1(R)"
2. User "role1user1" is part of "role1(R)" and is mapped to "TestGroup1" in UCM
Expected:
Both "acc1user1" and "role1user1" should be able to see "content1" as they have at least Read permission.
Please help me understand why the users are not able to see the content.

ACLs, like Accounts, are optional security setting which may add on some extra functionality to mandatory security groups. Likewise, the resulting permission is taken as an intersection of SG and ACLs.
But in the second part the number of set of users is huge (approx say 600)I don't get this completely. Does this mean that those "sets of users" (users who see the same data) are distinct and that there is 600 of such groups?
If you read thoroughly the manual I sent earlier, there is a recommendation that there should be maximum 50 security groups, and you should use accounts, should this number be exceeded. This means you could have all the documents in one security group (and have one common role with Read permission), but combine it with accounts. ACLs are not a good choice here - their performance and manageability is much worse than of accounts. ACLs are primarily used if you expect security settings to change during the lifetime (e.g. a project manager adds temporarily rights to access an item to another user, and revokes it when the user finishes his or her work).
Note that accounts as well as permissions of users within accounts can also be mapped externally (from LDAP/AD) and it usually follows some kind of org chart.
I'd feel more comfortable not to speak about users, security groups, roles, etc., but about some real-life objects and scenarios.

Oracle XE 11g and Windows Server 2008 - 64 bits

Hello,
my questions are :
- is Oracle XE working on 64 bits (windows)
- if it doesn't :
- is an update coming ?
- is there any solution to make Oracle XE running with Win2008 Server 64 bits (i tried, but i had many problems with execution of listener)
Thx for your informations.

Hello, and welcome to the OTN forums!
You could have used the search forum to find answers to these frequently asked questions...
However, I give you a short intro:
- is Oracle XE working on 64 bits (windows)There is no general answer to that question. As you've found out, there is no installer for 64bit Windows. As for 32bit, there are several Windows versions that are listed in the [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18803/toc.htm#BABHICJH]System Requirements section of the XE Installation Guide, and a few you won't find there, e.g. Vista or Home Editions. This means you'll probably experience problems when trying to install on any OS version not listed there. Some of them might be worked around, others may not.
Since your target is Windows Server 2008 (edition?), you might get a more precise answer when you search for that.
- is an update coming ?See {thread:id=2277728} .
In addition to that, {thread:id=2278170} contains an overview for the state of all operating systems.
- is there any solution to make Oracle XE running with Win2008 Server 64 bits (i tried, but i had many problems with execution of listener)The safest way would be to use a VM with a supported operating system.
-Udo

Oracle XE 11g and Entity Framework 4.4

I have Windows Server 2008 R2 32bit and Oracle 11g Release 2 Express Edition installed on my server machine.
I have Windows 7 Pro 64bit, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 32bit, .NET 4.0 and Oracle .NET Data Provider (ODTwithODAC1120320_32bit) installed on my development machine.
The data provider download mentioned Entity Framework support. Existing tutorials on how to use Oracle with the Entity Framework makes me believe that EF is indeed supported! But when I try to create a new ADO.NET Entity Model, the Oracle data provider nor data source isn't listed!
Image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/4SnW8.png
On the other hand, if I want to create a new database connection, via the Server Explorer view, there are no problems connection to Oracle's DB.
Image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ipXSV.png
The reason I need Entity Framework support is because we're migrating from MSSQL to Oracle and are looking for the most painless route to do so.
Edited by: 916761 on Dec 4, 2012 3:24 AM

I had to create a New Connection, when the dropdown menu didn't contain it.

Info required for VCS control and expressway upgradation

Hi Folks
We have a VCS control and VCS expressway in our enviornment.VCS control is in cluster with another VCS control and same is for VCS expressway.We are planning these to upgrade it on X8.1 version both control and expressway.Your experts view are required on the below points :-
1) The VCS control is configured in cluster how we need to proceed with upgradation first with master or with slave VCS.
2) Where we can take the backups of the VCS
3)Whre we can download the software for both expressway and control
4) Both VCS control and expressway are in communication with each other.Which one we need to upgrade first expressway or control.
Regards
Tarun

Hi Tarun,
If you are thinking to go on x8.1 then obviously i assume that you must be running TMS-PE for provisioning.
Compared to legacy (opends) method, PE is more flexible and it is simple to upgrade.
i will suggest you to go through the below document for upgrading the cluster.
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/infrastructure/vcs/config_guide/X8-1/Cisco-VCS-Cluster-Creation-and-Maintenance-Deployment-Guide-X8-1.pdf
- i think you should first take the backup of VCS, atleast backup of master server. to do that go to maintenance and from there you would go to "backup and restore" and backup the VCS
- you can go ahead with upgrading your VCS slave first and then master, atleat i take that approach!! i never saw any issues with that may be some one else take a second approach.
- you would be able to download the software at the below page.
http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=283733603&softwareid=280886992&release=X8.1&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest
- again you can first target VCS-E and then VCS-C (again no thumb rule for that), untill some else think of some other things.
regards
Alok

Oracle Clusterware 11g Release 2 - a first glimpse under the hood

Can OCR 11.2 in ASM hold user datafiles?

Hey Andy,
In previous releases, OCR was supposed to have 100MB in size and no other data was supposed to be stored on the same disk.
My question refers for a 36GB device that will be split in 2 partitions one for OCR and the rest is free to be used for something else. Can I used the 35 GB left from that disk for ASM to store user data files? for example to be used +DATA
Thanks,
Terry

New Note 790189.1 - Oracle Clusterware and Application Failover Management

Hi all,
please, note the newly created Metalink Note 790189.1 - Oracle Clusterware and Application Failover Management if you want to use Oracle Clusterware as a general purpose cluster solution. The note intends to clarify and to explain the current situation in regards to the supportability of applications managed by Oracle Clusterware.
In environments not including Oracle RAC, Oracle Clusterware still provides the level of high availability that is commonly known to be achievable for applications and databases managed in (failover) cluster environments. These environments can include Oracle Single Instance Databases, Oracle Application Servers, Oracle Enterprise Manager components, third party databases, or any other kind of application. (For more information on Oracle Clusterware 11g in general, please, refer to [Oracle Clusterware homepage|http://otn.oracle.com/clusterware].)
Metalink Note 790189.1 - Oracle Clusterware and Application Failover Management is tightly integrated with the information on application failover management available on the [Oracle Clusterware homepage|http://otn.oracle.com/clusterware] and discusses typical questions like
* Terminology
* Script supportability and preconfigured agents
* How to prove that action scripts work outside of Oracle Clusterware
* Supportability of the Oracle Database Single Instance example scripts
* How do I know whether a certain script is supported as a preconfigured agent?
Metalink Note 790189.1, however, does not change the level of support that has been introduced for these kind of configurations as of Oracle Database 10g Release 2: "Generally, Oracle does not support action scripts in the strict terms of supporting individual code fragments. Oracle fully supports the integration of individual action scripts proven to run outside of Oracle Clusterware into the Oracle Clusterware management stack. Supported operations therefore typically involve crs_* commands such as crs_profile, crs_register, crs_setperm, crs_getperm, crs_start, crs_stop, and crs_relocate invoked on custom resources. If actions scripts are used as part of a preconfigured agent, Oracle or the application provider who provides the agent will support the integration of this agent, while only the application provider will provide support for the individual action scripts."
Just for your information. Thanks,
Markus

not meant to be a question - rather an announcement.

Oracle 11g and iSeries ODBC 32/64bit version???

Hi folks,
I've some questions....
I need setup a new server with Oracle db 11g and from this db i need setup a DBLINK to an IBM iSeries (AS/400) server. I've some doubts about the 32/64 bit version to use.
My idea is:
Oracle Linux 64bit
Oracle Database 11g 64bit
Oracle Gateway 11g 64bit
IBM i Access ODBC driver 64bit ( maybe 7.1 version?!?!?!)
Do you think I'll be able to achieve my goal with this configuration?
Else where can you suggest me a valid and wonrking configuration?
Thank you very much!!!!
bye bye

Emilio,
That combination of products should work, as long as the ODBC driver is 64-bit and satisfies the ODBC driver criteria listed in the documentation.
If you have access to My Oracle Support have a look at this note -
Note.561033.1 How to Setup DG4ODBC on 64bit Unix OS (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX)
Regards,
Mike

Doubt with Windows and Oracle Forms 10G and 11g

Hi
I have some doubts in installing Oracle Client on Windows.
a)Can we install Oracle Forms 10g and Reports 10g client on Windows 7?
b)Can we install Oracle Forms 11g and Reports 11g client on Windows XP?
c)If we have an Oracle Forms 11g and Reports 11g, can it connect to a 10g Server?
d)If we have an Oracle Forms 10g and Reports 10g Client, can it connect to an 11g Server?
Please, Can any one help me in this????

a)yes it can be installed on win7, may have some issues on 64bit systems but they're solvable
b)11g had some problems with windows 2000, but didn't see mention of any problems on XP
c)if you mean a database server then yes - i managed to connect 11g to an 8i database, so v10 should not be a problem. If you mean a forms/reports server..well newer forms/reports builder might not want to run old forms/reports and vice versa, but I don't see the point of operating on the same files from different versions. You can still load old form/report source files with a newer builder and recompile them to run on the new server.
d) the "client" is effectively your web browser with a java plugin, unless I misunderstood your question. What version was a form/report compiled with should not be an issue.

Oracle Clusterware installation 10gR1 install and upgrade

Hi Experts,
I will install RAC in window 32 bit 2003.
My database is 10GR4.
So i need to download Oracle Clusterware 10GR1 and upgrate to 10GR4 and match database version.
Any experience is welcom for upgrated Oracle Clusterware to 10G R4.
Jim

Thanks for your help.
I only see
Oracle Database Real Application Testing Downloads in TNS. Where do I need to download oracle cluster software?
I will check that ID in metalink.
Thnaks,
Jim

RE: Calling a Web service from Oracle Forms 11g

I wonder if anyone could please help with the following
We have a requirement for a real time communication between Oracles Forms (11g) and SAP over the RR LAN network.
This would require the need to send info to and receive info from SAP as it will be an on-line validation of a Part from an Oracle FORM to SAP (response less than 1 second).
What would be the best and easiest way to code this an Oracle FORMS trigger.
Thanks very much
Durjoy
tel 07790 495 626

Hello,
<p>Did you read this paper ?</p>
Francois

Error while installing ofm_frmrpts_win_11.1.2.0.0_32 Oracle Forms 11g

Dear Oracles,
I am facing problems while installing Oracle Forms 11g
I read many documentations - and follow many pages during installing - but the same error appears every time
I installed Oracle Web Logic Server wls1035_generic.jar perfectly, and then create a web logic domain through Fusion Middleware config wizard
and test the web server through
http://localhost:7001/console
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8558/consoleto.jpg
and then installed Oracle Forms and Reports 11g R2 using ofm_frmrpts_win_11.1.2.0.0_32 3 - Disks
I chose Install S/w only - it was installed successfully
then I opened Configure Classic instance and follow wizard
It stopped at creating domain
every time i try it.
with images to show my problem
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/4131/ofmfrmrptswin11120032.jpg
Iam using win XP-32 bit with 2 GB Ram pc and Oracle DB 11g
and this is the Log
error part
[2012-11-07T22:17:59.937-08:00] [as] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.as.provisioning] [tid: 13] [ecid: 0000JfUeR^Z8XrWjLxVK8A1GaorA000004,0] reportStartConfigAction: EXIT........
[2012-11-07T23:57:03.859-08:00] [as] [ERROR] [] [oracle.as.provisioning] [tid: 13] [ecid: 0000JfUeR^Z8XrWjLxVK8A1GaorA000004,0]
[2012-11-07T23:57:03.859-08:00] [as] [ERROR] [] [oracle.as.provisioning] [tid: 13] [ecid: 0000JfUeR^Z8XrWjLxVK8A1GaorA000004,0] [[
oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException:
Error while starting the domain.
Cause:
Starting the Admin_Server timed out.
Action:
See logs for more details.
     at oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException.createConfigException(ConfigException.java:123)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.weblogic.ASDomain.startDomain(ASDomain.java:3149)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.weblogic.ASDomain.startDomain(ASDomain.java:3039)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._startAdminServer(WorkFlowExecutor.java:1645)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._createDomain(WorkFlowExecutor.java:635)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWLSWorkFlow(WorkFlowExecutor.java:391)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:866)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.standard.StandardWorkFlowExecutor.execute(StandardWorkFlowExecutor.java:65)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.standard.AbstractProvisioningTask.execute(AbstractProvisioningTask.java:26)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.standard.StandardProvisionTaskList.execute(StandardProvisionTaskList.java:61)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.ClassicConfigMain.doExecute(ClassicConfigMain.java:124)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.client.ConfigAction.execute(ConfigAction.java:339)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.run(TaskPerformer.java:87)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.startConfigAction(TaskPerformer.java:104)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.ActionRequest.perform(ActionRequest.java:15)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.RequestQueue.perform(RequestQueue.java:63)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.standard.StandardConfigActionManager.start(StandardConfigActionManager.java:158)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.boot.ConfigurationExtension.kickstart(ConfigurationExtension.java:81)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.ConfigurationModule.run(ConfigurationModule.java:83)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
[2012-11-07T23:57:03.859-08:00] [as] [ERROR] [] [oracle.as.provisioning] [tid: 13] [ecid: 0000JfUeR^Z8XrWjLxVK8A1GaorA000004,0] [[
oracle.as.provisioning.exception.ASProvWorkflowException: Error Executing workflow.
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._createDomain(WorkFlowExecutor.java:686)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWLSWorkFlow(WorkFlowExecutor.java:391)
     at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:866)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.standard.StandardWorkFlowExecutor.execute(StandardWorkFlowExecutor.java:65)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.standard.AbstractProvisioningTask.execute(AbstractProvisioningTask.java:26)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.standard.StandardProvisionTaskList.execute(StandardProvisionTaskList.java:61)
     at oracle.as.install.classic.ca.ClassicConfigMain.doExecute(ClassicConfigMain.java:124)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.client.ConfigAction.execute(ConfigAction.java:339)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.run(TaskPerformer.java:87)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.startConfigAction(TaskPerformer.java:104)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.ActionRequest.perform(ActionRequest.java:15)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.RequestQueue.perform(RequestQueue.java:63)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.standard.StandardConfigActionManager.start(StandardConfigActionManager.java:158)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.boot.ConfigurationExtension.kickstart(ConfigurationExtension.java:81)
     at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.ConfigurationModule.run(ConfigurationModule.java:83)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
]]

In addition to Craig's feedback consider the following:
If you did not read the system requirements and installation guide, you likely will have problems.
http://docs.oracle.com/html/E25460_01/r2_fr_requirements.htm
<blockquote>1. Does your machine have a static IP address and/or the Windows Loopback adapter installed and configured?
2. You indicated that you have 2gig of RAM. This is the minimum requirement just to install the product. It is very unlikely that you will be able to comfortably use the product with 2gig of RAM. Likely the performance will be so slow that processes will timeout before they can successfully start. You can actually see this occurring already - look carefully at the log info you posted.
Further, if you are also attempting to run an 11g database on the same machine, this will never happen. Having only 2gig of RAM will never support running the DB and the components of FMw, and the Operating System.</blockquote>

Clusterware Pricing and/or Licensing Information for 3rd Party Applications

Hi,
Can anyone please direct me to Oracle Clusterware 11g pricing and/or licensing information in the scenario where the Clusterware solution is intended for use with a 3rd party application and not with Oracle Database?
Also, in the case where Clusterware is used with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise, does it require a separate license?
I appreciate if anyone can provide me with a link to this type of information.
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Johan

OK - So if there is no RAC installed and you all you need to do is provide Cold failover for an Oracle database instance then yes the Clusterware license is at no charge in this scenario.
briefly :
you install a Clusterware home - as if you were goin gto create a RAC database
then you install a database software home on each node.
then you create the instance.
there is a good paper here : http://otn.oracle.com/clusterware
See : Using Oracle Clusterware to Protect A Single Instance Oracle Database 11g (PDF) February 2008
If the software you are wanting to protect 'talks' to an Oracle database
You can either install on the RAC nodes - using the clusterware that is already there
OR
install Oracle clusterware onto 2 or 3 or more new nodes to build an new application cluster and then install your application.
Either way both meet the terms of the license doc.
Philip...

Info required : Oracle Clusterware 11g and Veritas (SFRAC) storage

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for