Cookbook quick instalation guide oracle 10gr2 on imb

COOKBOOK
Quick Installation Guide
Oracle 10g RAC Release 2
and Oracle Automatic Storage
Management (ASM)
on IBM
System p
and i Running AIX 5L
with SAN Storage
Version 2.0
May 2007

ORACLE / IBM
Joint Solutions Center
IBM – Thierry Plumeau
Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center
Oracle - Frederic Michiara
Oracle/IBM Joint Solutions Center

This document is based on our experiences.This is not an official (Oracle or IBM) documentation.
This document will be constantly updated
and we’re open to any add-on
or feedback from your own experiences,
on same or different storage solution !!!

Document history :
Version

Date

Update

Who

Validated by

- Creation
Frederic Michiara
Thierry Plumeau

1.0

1.1

Fabienne Lepetit
Paul Bramy
Alain Roy
MarcTu-Duy-Kiem

Frederic Michiara
Thierry Plumeau

January
2006

Fabienne Lepetit
Paul Bramy
Alain Roy
Marc Tu-Duy-Kiem
Fabienne Lepetit
Paul Bramy
Alain Roy

April 2006 - Update (Storage, Multi-path I/O with IBM RDAC and
MPIO, HDS Hitachi and EMC Power Path configuration,
racgvip script modification for virtual network)
- Appendix D

Frederic Michiara
Thierry Plumeau
- Removed GPFSpart and created a specific
Quick Installation Guide
Oracle 10g RAC Release 2 and IBM GPFS on IBM eServ
System p and i running AIX 5L with SAN Storage
- Separate ASM Home from DB Home
- asmcmd, ftp and http, dbconsole
- Multi-pathing / storage update
- Architecture update
- 10.2.0.3 Patchset installation
…

March 2007 - Update

2.0

Contributors :
o

Paul Bramy : Oracle Corp.(ORACLE/IBM Joint Solutions Center)

o

Alain Roy : IBM France (ORACLE/IBM Joint Solutions Center)

o

Fabienne Lepetit : Oracle France (ORACLE/IBM Joint Solutions Center)

o

Marc Tu-Duy-Kiem : IBM France (ORACLE/IBM Joint Solutions Center)

o

Stephan Navaro : IBM France

o

Rebecca Balough : IBM ATS (US)

Contact :
o

ORACLE / IBM Joint Solutions Centeroraclibm@fr.ibm.com

Installing Oracle 10g RAC Release 2 / ASM on IBM

Sytem pwith AIX 5L

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The aim of this document ....................................................................................................6
About Oracle clusterware and Real Application Cluster...................................................8
About Oracle Automatic storage management..................................................................9
What’s new with RAC implementation on AIX5L .............................................................10
Ways to implement 10g RAC on AIX5L.............................................................................11
5.1
10g RAC over Local Area Network.............................................................................................................. 11
5.1.1
ASM (Automated Storage Management) ............................................................................................. 11
5.1.2
IBM GPFS (General Parallel File System)............................................................................................ 12
5.1.3
Concurrent Raw Devices with Volumes Groups (HACMP).................................................................. 13
5.1.4
NAS (Network Appliance Filer) ............................................................................................................. 14
5.1.5
Veritas SFRAC...................................................................................................................................... 15
5.1.6
Concurrent Raw Devices withoutHACMP ........................................................................................... 16
5.2
10g RAC over MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) ....................................................................................... 17

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Hardware architecture ........................................................................................................18
6.1
IBM Sytem p...