Installing Real Application Clusters - Oracle ORACLE9I B10508-01 Installation Manual

Installing Real Application Clusters

Because the disk on which the Oracle software will be installed is mounted cluster
wide, and is therefore accessible from multiple nodes, installing Real Application
Clusters (RAC) on OpenVMS is no different than installing non-RAC, except for the
screen in OUI (Oracle Universal Installer) on which you are presented the option.
For complete details about configuring RAC, refer to the generic documentation.
The following steps are taken after the software has been installed and a database
has been created.
Node1:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Do not delete or manually alter the oraInventory
Caution:
directory or its contents. Doing so can prevent the Oracle Universal
Installer from locating products that you install on your system.
The make.log file in the ORA_ROOT:[install] directory
contains a log of every make file action that is executed during the
installation process. The make.log file also records any link errors
during installation. Do not delete or alter the make.log file.
The following steps are provided here with the assumption
Note:
that the instance on node1 is sidA, and that the instance on node2 is
sidB.
Set up your environment:
$ @orauser sidA
$ set default ora_root:[network]
Create the DCL script needed for bequeath connections:
$ @create_orasrv_beq <ora_db> <sidB> <db_name>
for example:
$ @create_orasrv_beq DISK$DISK1:[Oracle9i.Home1.ORADATA.DB92] -
_$ sidB DB92
$ set default ora_root:[dbs]
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