Installing And Configuring Gfs; Installation And Configuration Procedure; Installing Gfs - Red Hat GFS 6.0 - INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING ORACLE9I RAC Manual

Installing and Configuring GFS
This chapter describes installing and configuring Red Hat GFS 6.0 for use with Oracle9i RAC, using
the sample cluster described in Chapter 1 Overview. This chapter consists of the following sections:
Section 2.1 Installation and Configuration Procedure
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Section 2.2 Installing GFS
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Section 2.3 Configuring Pools
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Section 2.4 Setting Up the GFS Configuration
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Section 2.5 Starting the Lock Servers
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Section 2.6 Creating and Mounting GFS File Systems
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2.1. Installation and Configuration Procedure
Installing and configuring GFS consists of the following steps:

1. Installing GFS

2. Configuring pools
3. Setting up the GFS configuration
4. Starting the lock servers
5. Creating and mounting GFS file systems
2.2. Installing GFS
To install GFS, follow these steps:
1. Install Red Hat GFS 6.0 RPMs according to the directions in the Red Hat GFS Administrator's
Guide for GFS 6.0 (refer to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/admin-guide/).
2. Follow the directions in the Red Hat GFS Administrator's Guide for GFS 6.0 to prepare and set
up the servers to use GFS. In particular, make sure to install any additional packages required for
GFS that may not be available with the your distribution (for example,
Example 2-1 shows setting up prerequisite software and installing GFS for an SMP kernel.
3. Proceed to Section 2.3 Configuring Pools.
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