11Gr2 RAC scan IP 与vip的不同

If you have ever been tasked with extending an Oracle RAC cluster by adding a new node (or shrinking a RAC cluster by removing a node), then you know the pain of going through a list of all clients and updating their SQL*Net or JDBC configuration to reflect the new or deleted node. To address this problem, Oracle 11g Release 2 introduced a new feature known as Single Client Access Name or SCAN for short. SCAN is a new feature that provides a single host name for clients to access an Oracle Database running in a cluster. Clients using SCAN do not need to change their TNS configuration if you add or remove nodes in the cluster. The SCAN resource and its associated IP address(s) provide a stable name for clients to use for connections, independent of the nodes that make up the cluster. You will be asked to provide the host name (also called the SCAN name in this document) and up to three IP addresses to be used for the SCAN resource during the interview phase of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation. For high availability and scalability, Oracle recommends that you configure the SCAN name for round-robin resolution to three IP addresses. At a minimum, the SCAN must resolve to at least one address.

The SCAN virtual IP name is similar to the names used for a node's virtual IP address, such as racnode1-vip. However, unlike a virtual IP, the SCAN is associated with the entire cluster, rather than an individual node, and can be associated with multiple IP addresses, not just one address.

During installation of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure, a listener is created for each of the SCAN addresses. Clients that access the Oracle RAC database should use the SCAN or SCAN address, not the VIP name or address. If an application uses a SCAN to connect to the cluster database, the network configuration files on the client computer do not need to be modified when nodes are added to or removed from the cluster. Note that SCAN addresses, virtual IP addresses, and public IP addresses must all be on the same subnet.

The SCAN should be configured so that it is resolvable either by using Grid Naming Service (GNS) within the cluster or by using the traditional method of assigning static IP addresses using Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution.

In this article, I will configure SCAN for round-robin resolution to three, manually configured static IP address using the DNS method.


racnode-cluster-scan IN A 192.168.1.187 
racnode-cluster-scan IN A 192.168.1.188 
racnode-cluster-scan IN A 192.168.1.189

Further details regarding the configuration of SCAN will be provided in the section "Verify SCAN Configuration" during the network configuration phase of this guide..