Question to Oracle about 10g RAC

Hi:
Does Oracle had installed 10gRAC on Redhat3.0AS either using ocfs or raw successful before the software got released?

It is indeed successful. We've installed 10g RAC with ocfs/ASM on different storage devices such as SAN's and SCSI disk arrays .

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Oracle database 10g RAc an ASM configuration

Hi all,
I want to ask to everybody something about Oracle 10g RAC and ASm configuration. We plan to migrate to Oracle 10g from 9i, and we will begin configuring oracle but we have to decide which configuration are the best.
Our materials are bellow:
Hardware: RP 3440 (HP)
OS : HPUX 11i Ver 1
Storage: EVA 4000 (eva disk group)
The problem is:
Our supplier recommand us to use HP serviguard + HP serviceguard extension for RAC+ RAc and Raw device as configuration.
But we want to use Oracekl Clusterware + RAC + ASM
My question is if anybody know what is the best configuration, we want to use ASm.
Can we use HP serviguard and ASM.
Some documentations or link explain oracle RAC and ASM configuration will be appreciate.
Thanks for your help.
Regards.
raitsarevo

Hello,
there's no extra RAC software package, but the option is only offered, if one of the supported cluster layers for the respective OS has been installed before.
10.1.0.3 looks like a complete redesign, but anyway it is a patch, you have to install 10.1.0.2 first.

Oracle database 10g RAC and ASM configuration

Hi all,
I want to ask to everybody something about Oracle 10g RAC and ASm configuration. We plan to migrate to Oracle 10g from 9i, and we will begin configuring oracle but we have to decide which configuration are the best.
Our materials are bellow:
Hardware: RP 3440 (HP)
OS : HPUX 11i Ver 1
Storage: EVA 4000 (eva disk group)
The problem is:
Our supplier recommand us to use HP serviguard + HP serviceguard extension for RAC+ RAc and Raw device as configuration.
But we want to use Oracekl Clusterware + RAC + ASM
My question is if anybody know what is the best configuration, we want to use ASm.
Can we use HP serviguard and ASM.
Some documentations or link explain oracle RAC and ASM configuration will be appreciate.
Thanks for your help.
Regards.
raitsarevo

Hello,
there's no extra RAC software package, but the option is only offered, if one of the supported cluster layers for the respective OS has been installed before.
10.1.0.3 looks like a complete redesign, but anyway it is a patch, you have to install 10.1.0.2 first.

Oracle database 10g RAC and ASm installation

Hi all,
I want to ask to everybody something about Oracle 10g RAC and ASm configuration. We plan to migrate to Oracle 10g from 9i, and we will begin configuring oracle but we have to decide which configuration are the best.
Our materials are bellow:
Hardware: RP 3440 (HP)
OS : HPUX 11i Ver 1
Storage: EVA 4000 (eva disk group)
The problem is:
Our supplier recommand us to use HP serviguard + HP serviceguard extension for RAC+ RAc and Raw device as configuration.
But we want to use Oracekl Clusterware + RAC + ASM
My question is if anybody know what is the best configuration, we want to use ASm.
Can we use HP serviguard and ASM.
Some documentations or link explain oracle RAC and ASM configuration will be appreciate.
Thanks for your help.
Regards.
raitsarevo

Hi Experts ,
Using this command
$ emca
STARTED EMCA at Mon Mar 09 16:13:13 GMT+07:00 2009
Enter the following information about the database to be configured
Listener port number:
Following error comes:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/sysman/emSDK/conf/InventoryLoader
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfig.getFreePorts(EMConfig.java:4225)
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfig.checkParameters(EMConfig.java:994)
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfig.perform(EMConfig.java:265)
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfigAssistant.invokeEMCA(EMConfigAssistant.java:692)
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfigAssistant.performSetup(EMConfigAssistant.java:641)
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfigAssistant.statusMain(EMConfigAssistant.java:340)
at oracle.sysman.emcp.EMConfigAssistant.main(EMConfigAssistant.java:180)
Moreover this command does not work on Aix 5.3
emca -config dbcontrol db -repos recreate
Regards,
Edited by: LazyDBA10g on Mar 16, 2009 6:20 AM

Oracle Database 10g - RAC install

1)
I am trying to install Oracle 10g RAC (for Solaris Operating System (SPARC)) using 'Enterprise/Standard Edition for Solaris Operating System (SPARC, 64-bit) - ship_rel10_sol64_db.cpio.gz' downloaded installation. There is no separate installation for RAC, so I assume this is the right install to use for RAC, right?
Since I don't have cabeling for Interconnect done yet, I tried to install Database/RAC prior CRS installation, but no option has been offered for RAC. Do I need to have clustering software installed first in order to be able to installl Oracle Database RAC?
2)
Why is Oracle Database 10g release 10.1.0.3 patch set (for Solaris Operating System (SPARC)) so large - 648 MB?
Do I need to install 10.1.0.2 first?

Hello,
there's no extra RAC software package, but the option is only offered, if one of the supported cluster layers for the respective OS has been installed before.
10.1.0.3 looks like a complete redesign, but anyway it is a patch, you have to install 10.1.0.2 first.

Oracle Pipes- 10g RAC?

Oracle Pipes is not working on 10g RAC?

"not working" is a very broad, sweeping statement to make. For all we know, you simply do not know how to use DBMS_PIPEs. Or maybe your code is simply buggy.
So if you expect a helpful response, you must help us first to understand what problem you are running into. This means at least explaining what you are doing using pipes (sample code will be great), and the actual ORA error messages encountered.

MULTIPLE USERS 10G RAC ORACLE_HOME INSTALL WITH ASM/CRS

Hi,
We need to install multiple 10g RAC databases on a two node Sun servers. Below is our configuration:
1) Sun Solaris (ver 10) with Sun Cluster 3.2
2) One ASM/CRS install (by 1 OS account)
3) Four ORACLE_HOME 10g database install (by 4 different OS user accounts)
We would like to use one ASM instance for all four databases with appropriate privileges.
OS User:           OS Group
========      =========
oraasm           dbaasm - (ASM and CRS install owner)
ora1           dbaora1 - first db owner
ora2           dbaora2 - second db owner
ora3           dbaora3 - third db owner
ora4           dbaora4 - fourth db owner
I understand that certain privileges need to be shared between ASM/CRS and DB owners. Please let me know the steps to be followed to complete this install.
Thanks in advance.

Hi
Please read that: Documentation http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10766_08/intro.htm
- You can install and operate multiple Oracle homes and different versions of Oracle cluster database software on the same computer as described in the following points:
-You can install multiple Oracle Database 10g RAC homes on the same node. The multiple homes feature enables you to install one or more releases on the same machine in multiple Oracle home directories. However, each node can have only one CRS home.
-In addition, you cannot install Oracle Database 10g RAC into an existing single-instance Oracle home. If you have an Oracle home for Oracle Database 10g, then use a different Oracle home, and one that is available across the entire cluster for your new installation. Similarly, if you have an Oracle home for an earlier Oracle cluster database software release, then you must also use a different home for the new installation.
If the OUI detects an earlier version of a database, then the OUI asks you about your upgrade preferences. You have the option to upgrade one of the previous-version databases with DBUA or to create a new database using DBCA. The information collected during this dialog is passed to DBUA or DBCA after the software is installed.
- You can use the OUI to complete some of the de-install and re-install steps for Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters if needed.
Note:
Do not move Oracle binaries from one Oracle home to another because this causes dynamic link failures.
. If you are using ASM with Oracle database instances from multiple database homes on the same node, then Oracle recommends that you run the ASM instance from an Oracle home that is distinct from the database homes. In addition, the ASM home should be installed on every cluster node. This prevents the accidental removal of ASM instances that are in use by databases from other homes during the de-installation of a database's Oracle home.

Best Practice for installing/managing 9i/10g RAC

Looking for this notes/articles...

There is one best practice document available from Oracle RACSIG site and "Oracle Real Applicaiton Cluster Administration and Deployment Guide" available on OTN is also good source of informaiton about 10g RAC.
Oracle has made sincere efforts in 10g documentations expecially in server technology.
Thanks & Regards

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I Part 1 CD

On the first learning CD for Database 10g Administration, there is an incorrectly displayed question.
Oracle Database 10g Workshop -> Installing an Oracle Database -> Installation Using OUI -> Page 21
Question is: To Locally manage the databases stored on one or multiple computers, you select:
A. the Configure the Database with Enterprise Manager check box on the Management Options page.
B. etc.
C. etc.
D. the Raw Devices option button on the Store Options page.
When the correct answer (A) is selected, the dialogue displayed states:
'That is incorrect. The Raw Devices option is used to manage the storage devices outside the OS file system. Try again'
As if D was selected instead of A. If D is selected, the message is:
That is correct. The Configure the Database with Enterprise Manager option enables you to locally manage the databases stored in one or multiple computers.
It seems as though the links next to question A and D are flipped.

Hello,
I have used it and couple of others workshop in CD format and it is worth buying. Make sure you have a database setup where you can play all the excercise available in workshop. Beside that I have also attended instructer led training, though self-study course material pretty much same but you can't replace an experienced instructor and his insights. I recommend if you can at least one instrcuter led training beside your self-study course it will be really helpful to you.
Regards

Questions About Chapter 2 in Oracle DB 10g: SQL Fundamentals II

Hello,
first of all i'm glad to be a member of your forum. I have joined a beginner Oracle Course: Intro to SQL. I'm facing some problems understanding some concepts in Chapter 2 of Oracle Database 10g: SQL Fundamentals II text book. I got about 15 questions. However, i will only ask two questions at first. Since i'm a newbie, please answer it in a simplistic form. Excuse me if you see grammatical mistakes.
Dropping a column can take a while if the column has a large number of values. In this case it may be better to set it to be unused and drop it when the number of users on the system are fewer to avoid extended locks.
Questions:
"when the number of users on the system are fewer to avoid extended locks."
1. Can you explain this to me please?! fewer than before? fewer than? What if users kept increasing during the years! then this "fewer" may not happen until the company collapse!
2. Why do we need to use unused columns? When should we use unused columns?

Great! .... I got more questions, i just do not want to open a new same thread. Thus, i will just post the questions in here and i hope i will get help from experts...Please bare with me guys...The questions are numbered, unnumbered parts are information that helps you understand my question.
Note: just answer what you are willing to, one question or whatever you want. I'm not expecting to get all the answers from one member :)
Thanks for understanding
Page 2-7:
Certain columns can never be dropped such as columns that form part of the partitioning
key for a partitioned table or columns that form part of the primary key of an index- organized table.
Questions:
"columns that form part of the partitioning key for a partitioned table"
*1. Do they mean one table can be split into two different storage? What is the thing that*
link these both tables to make Oracle Server realize these two tables are actually one table? Is is tablespace_name?
"columns that form part of the primary key of an index-organized table."
*2. Can you clarify the above sentence please*
*3. If i have set of columns that has large amount of data, i rather set them unused then*
drop them because the response time is going to be faster! I do not get it, can you
explain please? What i know is drop drops the column and release the disk space whilst
unused column make the columns useless and does not release disk space yet until we drop them, so
drop column does it in one step unlike taking the unused column process. In brief, i would like to know
why dropping unused columns that has large set of data is faster then dropping the column
directly...
Page 2-12
4. ALTER TABLE emp2 ADD CONSTRAINT emp_dt_fk
FOREIGN KEY (Department_id)
REFERENCES departments ON DELETE CASCADE);
The above query is written in text book. I think it should be written as
ALTER TABLE emp2 ADD CONSTRAINT emp_dt_fk
FOREIGN KEY (Department_id)
REFERENCES departments(dept_id) ON DELETE CASCADE;
Am i correct?
*5. Can you tell me what deferring constraints is in one sentence please? Why do we need it? When do we need it in real-life?*
*7. You can defer checking constraints for validity until the end of the transaction. A*
constraint is deferred if the system checks that it is satisfied only on commit. If a
deferred constraint is violated, then commit causes the transaction to roll back.
I do not understand the above paragraph, please explain. What i know is "end of
transaction" ends with ; or commit
Page 2-18
create table test1 (
pk NUMBER PRIMARY KEY,
fk NUMBER,
col1 NUMBER,
col2 NUMBER,
CONSTRAINT fk_constraint FOREIGN KEY (fk) REFERENCES test1,
CONSTRAINT ck1 CHECK (pk > 0 and col1 > 0),
CONSTRAINT ck2 CHECK (col2 > 0) );
-- "CONSTRAINT fk_constraint FOREIGN KEY (fk) REFERENCES test1"
*8. This is wrong isn't it? It references to test1 but no column specified.*
An error is returned for the following statements:
ALTER TABLE test1 DROP (pk); -- pk is a parent key.
*9. We can not drop it because we did not mention ON DELETE CASCADE. Am i right?*
ALTER TABLE test1 DROP (col1) -- col1 is referenced by multicolumn constraint ck1.
*10. I do not get it, can you explain please. col1 is not referenced, i see CHECK constraint is applied*
but no references made. Secondly, is ck1 considered multicolumn because it check two columns?
Or multicolumn here represents something else?
ALTER TABLE emp2
DROP COLUMN employee_id CASCADE CONSTRAINTS;
*11. This drop employee_id column and all its child. Correct?*
ALTER TABLE test1
DROP (pk, fk, col1) CASCADE CONSTRAINTS;
*12. This drops three columns and all its child if there are any. Correct?*
*13. Then what's the difference between ON DELETE CASCADE and CASCADE CONSTRAINTS?*
For example, What if employee_id in emp2 table definition does not have ON DELETE CASCADE,
will CASCADE CONSTRAINTS work? Please explain...
Page 2-22
When you are expecting a large data load and want to speed the operation. You may want
to disable the constraints while performing the load and then enable them, in which case
having a unique index on the primary key will still cause the data to be verified during
the load. So you can first create a nonunique index on the column designated as PRIMARY
KEY, and then create the PRIMARY KEY column and specify that it should use the existing
index.
Example:
1. create the table
create table new_emp
(employee_id number(6),
first_name varchar2(10)
2. create the index
create index emp_id_idx2 on new_emp(employee_id);
"You may want to disable the constraints while performing the load and then enable them"
so i suggest to load all data i want into new_emp.
3. create the primary key
alter table new_emp ADD primary key (employee_id) USING index emp_id_idx2;
What i understand is the following:
If we want to load large data into the new_emp, its better to create the table without any
constraints - in our case the constraint is primary key. After that, we create nonunique
index points to employee_id and then load data into new_emp. Finally, specify employee_id
as primary key using the nonunique index.
*14. Is my explanation correct?*
"in which case having a unique index on the primary key will still cause the data to be
verified during the load."
*15. Data to be verified against what? Is it to be verified whether its NULL or NOT NULL? I*
know primary key does not take NULL and every value must be unique.
After loading all data we want, what if i did
"alter table new_emp ADD primary key (employee_id);"
*16. Will i face any problems or inefficient process?*
I do not think we need step two, we could do the following:
1. create the table
create table new_emp
(employee_id number(6),
first_name varchar2(10)
"You may want to disable the constraints while performing the load and then enable them"
so i suggest to load all data i want itno new_emp.
2. create the primary key
alter table new_emp ADD primary key (employee_id);
*17. The above steps are as efficient as the three steps i mentioned above. The only difference*
is we let index be created implicitly. Right? If no, why?
Page 2-23
CREATE INDEX upper_dept_name_idx ON dept2(UPPER(department_name));
The following statement may use the index, but without the WHERE clause the
Oracle server may perform a full table scan:
select *
from employees
where UPPER(last_name) IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY UPPER (last_name);
"but without the WHERE clause the Oracle server may perform a full table scan"
*18. The above query let oracle server perform full table scan anyway! Right? It has to go*
through every field and check is it not null or not. I know we are using function-based
index but there are alot of not null last_name! so oracle server must scan one by one. If
we only had one not null field, then i would say Oracle server can point to that field
immediately by the aid of function-based index we created above. Can you clarify please...
Another related topic statement that i do not get it yet:
"The oracle server treats indexes with columns marked DESC as function-based indexes."
*19. The bove statements is so general. What if we have a column ordered by DESC order and we*
did not create any function-based indexes, will statement be true?!
Lets go back the above query:
ORDER BY UPPER (last_name);
*20. Its not DESC. To me, the above query does not flow with this statement "The oracle server treats*
*indexes with columns marked DESC as function-based indexes."?*
Page 2-27
Regarding FLASHBACK TABLE, you can invoke a flashback table operation on one or more
tables, even on tables in different schema. You specify the point in time to which you
want to revert by providing a valid timestamp. By default, database triggers are disabled
for all tables involved. You can override this default behavior by specifying the ENABLE
TRIGGERS clause.
"By default, database triggers are disabled for all tables involved. You can override this
default behavior by specifying the ENABLE TRIGGERS clause."
*21. What are database triggers?*
*22. About External Tables. What are external tables? When is it used in real-life? Why do*
we want External Tables?
Page 2-30
Oracle server provides two major access drivers for external tables. They are
ORACLE_LOADER access driver and ORACLE_DATAPUMP access driver. ORACLE_DATAPUMP used to
both import and export data using a platform-independent format.
"platform-independent format."
*23. What is the format? Is it .dat?*
Page 2-35
CREATE TABLE oldemp ( fname char(25), lname char(25) )
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
(TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
DEFAULT DIRECTORY emp_dir
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMINATED BT NEWLINE
NOBADFILE
NOLOGFILE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' (fname POSITION (1:20) CHAR, lname POSITION (22:41) CHAR)
LOCATION ('emp.dat') )
PARALLEL 5
REJECT LIMIT 200;
*24. Can you please explain the below part:*
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMINATED BT NEWLINE
NOBADFILE
NOLOGFILE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' (fname POSITION (1:20) CHAR, lname POSITION (22:41) CHAR)
*25. Can you please explain what is PARALLEL 5? and Why do we need it?*
Again, any help is appreciated...
Edited by: user11164565 on Jul 21, 2009 4:41 AM

Oracle 10g RAC and Unix *rlogin* question

I support several 10g RAC databases, running on IBM pSeries servers using AIX 5.3. Our database and clusterware are 10.2.0.3 and 10.2.0.4.
I understand that user equivalence and rsh/ssh must be enabled in order for the RAC environment and clusterware to communicate across all of the cluster nodes.
My problem is a question being raised by our internal system auditors. The are requesting that the rlogin and exec commands for AIX be disabled, because they feel it is a security risk. Both commands prompt for a valid userid and password when they are used to remotely login or execute a command.
I have reviewed the RAC documentation online, and searched Metalink (I am not a Metalink expert, though!) as well as Google and can't find anything stating that rlogin and exec are specifically required in order for RAC to function properly.
Can anyone offer advice or their perspective on whether or not these two commands need to be enabled in order for RAC to function?
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give to me.
Regards,
Mark

Hi Mark,
as far as my knowledge goes RAC does neither use rlogin nor exec commands.
After you setup the cluster Oracle communicates simply via. TCP (clusterware) and UDP (RAC) and is only sending and recieving messages. There is no need during runtime for a remote login.
So als ssh and rsh are solemnly used for installation and patching (not for communication).
Still Oracle recommends to leave them enabled, since it makes life easier than to enable ssh each time a patch is needed.
Sebastian

Oracle 10G RAC - Public & Heartbeat on 1 NIC

Hello all,
actually I am installing Oracle 10G RAC on rhel 4 (4 node cluster). But the Cluster Verification Utility aborts with errors. I checked the configToolAllCommands and tried to run the failed commands manually:
#/opt/oracle/crs/bin/oifcfg setif -global eth0.100/172.18.0.0:cluster_interconnect eth0.728/172.16.128.0:public eth0.498/172.17.1.0:cluster_interconnect
PRIF-50: duplicate interface is given in the input
PRIF-50: duplicate interface is given in the input
PRIF-50: duplicate interface is given in the input
Question:
Is it possible to put Public & Heartbeat on one NIC (eth0.728 & eth0.498)
If not is their any workaround for that issue?
Output /etc/hosts
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
172.18.253.48 eu0266.[company].net cfmaster
172.16.128.11 eu0200.[company].net eu0200
172.16.128.12 eu0201.[company].net eu0201
172.16.128.13 eu0202.[company].net eu0202
172.16.128.14 eu0203.[company].net eu0203
172.18.13.11 eu0200m.[company].net eu0200m
172.18.13.12 eu0201m.[company].net eu0201m
172.18.13.13 eu0202m.[company].net eu0202m
172.18.13.14 eu0203m.[company].net eu0203m
# Private section
172.17.1.11 eu0200-priv.[company].net eu0200-priv
172.17.1.12 eu0201-priv.[company].net eu0201-priv
172.17.1.13 eu0202-priv.[company].net eu0202-priv
172.17.1.14 eu0203-priv.[company].net eu0203-priv
# Virtual section
172.16.128.16 eu0200-vip.[company].net eu0200-vip
172.16.128.17 eu0201-vip.l[company].net eu0201-vip
172.16.128.18 eu0202-vip.[company].net eu0202-vip
172.16.128.19 eu0203-vip.[company].net eu0203-vip
Output install log:
Checking existence of VIP node application (required)
Check failed.
Check failed on nodes:
eu0203,eu0202,eu0201,eu0200
Checking existence of ONS node application (optional)
Check ignored.
Checking existence of GSD node application (optional)
Check ignored.
Post-check for cluster services setup was unsuccessful on all the nodes.
Command = /opt/[company]/oracle/crs/bin/cluvfy has failed
INFO: Configuration assistant "Oracle Cluster Verification Utility" failed
*** Starting OUICA ***
Oracle Home set to /opt/[company]/oracle/crs
Configuration directory is set to /opt/[company]/oracle/crs/cfgtoollogs. All xml files under the directory will be processed
INFO: The "/opt/[company]/oracle/crs/cfgtoollogs/configToolFailedCommands" script contains all commands that failed, were skipped or were cancelled. This file may be used to run these configuration assistants outside of OUI. Note that you may have to update this script with passwords (if any) before executing the same.
SEVERE: OUI-25031:Some of the configuration assistants failed. It is strongly recommended that you retry the configuration assistants at this time. Not successfully running any "Recommended" assistants means your system will not be correctly configured.
1. Check the Details panel on the Configuration Assistant Screen to see the errors resulting in the failures.
2. Fix the errors causing these failures.
3. Select the failed assistants and click the 'Retry' button to retry them.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards

Tads wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about Oracle RAC and network interface.
We're using Oracle 10gR2 RAC with two nodes on Linux Red Hat.
Let's assume that the public network interface goes down.
I would like to know what happens with existing connections
on node with network interface with problems.
Are connections frozen, actives?
Can the users continue to use theses existing connections using the another node of RAC?If the interface is down? what do you think? All connections to this node will die. How does your application handle fail-over, does it attempt to reconnect or just have a complete application failure?
You should spend some time in a test lab where you can test this stuff for yourself. Read the documentation and there are tons of sites out there that purport to have all of your RAC/TAF/FAN/FAF questions. - I would read and trust the documentation first.
>
I know that the listener goes down and any other connections is allowed.
Thank you very much!!!!

Problem with Oracle 10g RAC VIP network setting at Solaris 9

Dear All,
I have tried to set up a Oracle 10g RAC Release 2.
With OS solaris 9, and 2 nodes.
The nodes setting as the following:
nodes 1:
Public address: 172.16.0.121
Private address: 192.168.0.121, 192.168.1.121 (dual path for heart beat)
nodes 2:
Public address: 172.16.0.122
Private address: 192.168.0.122, 192.168.1.122
And i have assigned two IP adress 172.16.0.131, 172.16.0.132 as the VIP address for the
RAC.
And the following is the /etc/hosts file:
root@shk01 # cat /etc/hosts
# Internet host table
127.0.0.1 localhost
# public address
172.16.0.121 shk01 loghost
172.16.0.122 shk02
# heart beat
192.168.0.121 shk01-priv1
192.168.1.121 shk01-priv2
192.168.0.122 shk02-priv1
192.168.1.122 shk02-priv2
# VIP address
172.16.1.131 vip-shk01
172.16.1.132 vip-shk02
But when i run the command "$ ./runcluvfy.sh comp nodecon -n shk01,shk02 -verbose"
it shows the error:
ERROR:
Could not find a suitable set of interfaces for VIPs.
Result: Node connectivity check failed.
I did try to add the VIP address on bge0:1, as i using bge0 for the public address.
Both nodes i did using the same interface name for it.
Anyone have idea for me to check out the error?
Also, I have other question about the raw device.
As there is option for setting for ASM or raw device. If choosing raw device, does it mean that it just need to
format the storage disk but without newfs it? And then the Oracle program will able to handle it?
Thanks,
Xentar

You don't seem to state categorically that you are using Solaris Cluster, so I'll assume it since this is mainly a forum about Solaris Cluster (and IMHO, Solaris Cluster with Clusterware is better than Clusterware on its own).
Clusterware has to see the same device names from all cluster nodes. This is why Solaris Cluster (SC) is a positive benefit over Clusterware because SC provides an automatically managed, consistent name space. Clusterware on its own forces you to manage either the symbolic links (or worse mknods) to create a consistent namespace!
So, given the SC consistent namespace you simple add the raw devices into the ASM configuration, i.e. /dev/did/rdsk/dXsY. If you are using Solaris Volume Manager, you would use /dev/md/<setname>/rdsk/dXXX and if you were using CVM/VxVM you would use /dev/vx/rdsk/<dg_name>/<dev_name>.
Of course, if you genuinely are using Clusterware on its own, then you have somewhat of a management issue! ... time to think about installing SC?
Tim
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Solaris 10 and Hitachi LUN mapping with Oracle 10g RAC and ASM?

Hi all,
I am working on an Oracle 10g RAC and ASM installation with Sun E6900 servers attached to a Hitachi SAN for shared storage with Sun Solaris 10 as the server OS. We are using Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3) RAC clusterware
for the clustering software and raw devices for shared storage and Veritas VxFs 4.1 filesystem.
My question is this:
How do I map the raw devices and LUNs on the Hitachi SAN to Solaris 10 OS and Oracle 10g RAC ASM?
I am aware that with an Oracle 10g RAC and ASM instance, one needs to configure the ASM instance initialization parameter file to set the asm_diskstring setting to recognize the LUNs that are presented to the host.
I know that Sun Solaris 10 uses /dev/rdsk/CwTxDySz naming convention at the OS level for disks. However, how would I map this to Oracle 10g ASM settings?
I cannot find this critical piece of information ANYWHERE!!!!
Thanks for your help!

You don't seem to state categorically that you are using Solaris Cluster, so I'll assume it since this is mainly a forum about Solaris Cluster (and IMHO, Solaris Cluster with Clusterware is better than Clusterware on its own).
Clusterware has to see the same device names from all cluster nodes. This is why Solaris Cluster (SC) is a positive benefit over Clusterware because SC provides an automatically managed, consistent name space. Clusterware on its own forces you to manage either the symbolic links (or worse mknods) to create a consistent namespace!
So, given the SC consistent namespace you simple add the raw devices into the ASM configuration, i.e. /dev/did/rdsk/dXsY. If you are using Solaris Volume Manager, you would use /dev/md/<setname>/rdsk/dXXX and if you were using CVM/VxVM you would use /dev/vx/rdsk/<dg_name>/<dev_name>.
Of course, if you genuinely are using Clusterware on its own, then you have somewhat of a management issue! ... time to think about installing SC?
Tim
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10g RAC on Solaris 10 containers - Question on Approach

Hi All
To introduce a little, I am trying to set-up 10g RAC (active-active) on Solaris 10 Containers. For the disaster recovery site, I was considering an option for storage replication across datacenters. As I look at the situation where the database could be highly transactional, I wanted to go for this option hoping I might be better able to recover db on dr site if a failure happens and also alleviate some load from the prod servers. In this regard I have a set of questions for which if you could share your experiences, thoughts .. I am sure will help my preperation.
1 Is Oracle Supported on Solaris 10 containers? I believe it is not supported and ofcourse am getting into the certification matrix for this with oracle. Anyways, any work around tried out by anyone ?
2 Which product is better in terms of performance while co-existing and co-functioning with Oracle? Sun Cluster!!! Vertas Cluster!!! any other? I am unable to link to any recommendations from Oracle and hence trying to understand the generic or say standard approach to this.
3 I understand on Prod site, Oracle remains active-active on two node cluster while I will mirror my SAN between Prod site and DR site on a timely basis, while DB is up and running. This mirroring has to be only an asynchronous mirroring for some limitations. I am unsure about my recoverability if we need to switch over to DR. Will I be able to recover the Database to a point when my last mirroring has been completed successfully when I say the mirroring happened while the Prod db is up and running (hot backup type on disk level). Until now I used a cold backup for Storage replication and I was sure to bring it up there. This hot backup kind of attempt is raising unrest and questions about the abilities.. :-(
4 I also have come across a term called federated databases? Is it similar to what I am trying to achieve here? Storage level replocation across data centres?
I know it takes some time to get to the end of it and finally implement it, but your inputs will certainly help me get things straight before I hit this first click. Thanks for all your inputs, advices, suggestions. :-)
Regards!
Sarat

According to Oracle "Both Oracle 9i R2 and 10g R2 databases have been certified to run in a Solaris Container."
There are references here :- http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5397695
"Oracle databases (RAC and non-RAC) have been certified to run in a global Solaris 10 Container"
What storage are you using ? (filesystem, ASM ?) Personally I prefer ASM now, but it does depend on the storage platform and backup strategy.
What backup infrastructure do you have ? RMAN backup directly to tape is better than file copy.
For DR standby purposes I would use Dataguard instead of disk mirroring / storage replication. It is much more flexible (e.g can switch direction of replication, do incremental backups from the standby etc).
I would use CRS instead of VCS. CRS is built for the job, and integrates with netca, dbca, etc for service management, and also integrates with Dataguard Broker for standby switchover.

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