Build your own Oracle extended RAC on OracleVM and oraclew.iselinux

Here, you will not use the installation media CD or DVD to install the Linux system from scratch, but use the VMLinux template provided by Oracle. The VMLinux template is a binary file,

Here, you will not use the installation media CD or DVD to install the Linux system from scratch, but use the VM Linux template provided by Oracle. The VM Linux template is a binary file,

How to Create a cost-effective but fully functional Oracle extension RAC implementation in a virtual environment.

The information in this guide is not verified by Oracle and is not supported by Oracle. You are only at your own risk when using this guide. This guide is for teaching purposes only.

Updated on January 1, October 2008

Directory

Introduction

Software prerequisites

Oracle VM Server 2.1 and Oracle VM Manager 2.1

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.1 Update 1 "small" Oracle VM template (PV_x86_64)

Oracle Database 11 GB and cluster for Linux x86 (64-bit)

Openfiler 2.2 For Xen (64-bit)

Oracle VM Server Installation

Oracle VM Manager Installation

Set Virtual Machine (VM)

Create VM

Upload Template

Create a rac vm based on a directly available OEL Template

Create an Openfiler VM

Configure VM

Reconfigure the rac vm as needed

ISCSI Optimization

Prepare for Oracle software installation

Set Oracle SSH user equivalence

ASMLIB Configuration

Oracle cluster Installation

The third node acts as the NFS Server

Main Installation

Verify cluster Installation

Oracle Database Software Installation

NetCA: configure the Oracle TNS service for RAC

DBCA: Create a database

Database Optimization for Oracle RAC 11 GB Extension

Preferred read

Fast disk re-synchronization

Check the voting disk and OCR image of the extended RAC

Test the Failover Function

Instance fault on ERAC1

Catastrophic site faults

Latency impact and performance degradation

No latency

1 ms human latency

3 ms human latency

Fault Diagnosis and other matters

Avoid ORA-12545 errors when connecting to RAC

Build a kernel for Oracle VM Server 2.1 Xen dom0

Install new kernel

Rapid recovery from catastrophic site faults

Subsequent steps

Thank you

This guide is inspired and based on the famous Guide "build your own Oracle RAC 11g cluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI" written by Oracle ACE Jeffrey Hunter ", and obtained the permission from the author. If you want to know how to install Oracle RAC on Linux, we recommend that you read this guide. This article describes some previous experiences when using Oracle RAC.

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