RAC 10g administration

10g RAC administration

See OCFS Oracle Cluster Filesystem, ASM, TNSnames configuration,

Oracle Database 11g New Features, Raw devices,Resource Manager, Dbca
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This is just a draft of basic RAC 10g administration

 

RAC benefit and characteristics - does not protect from human errrors - increased availabilty from node/instance failure - speed up parallel DSS queries - no speed up parallel OLTP processes - no availability increase on data failures - no availability increase on network failures - no availability increase on release upgrades - no scalability increased for applications workloads in all cases RAC tuning - After migration to RAC test:  - Interconnect latency  - Instance recovery time  - Application strongly relying on table truncates, full scan tables, sequences and non-sequences key generation,global context variables

 

RAC specific background processes for the database instance Cluster Synchronization Service (CSS) ocssd daemon, manages cluster configuration Cluster Ready Services (CRS) manages resources(listeners, VIPs, Global Service Daemon GSD, Oracle Notification Service ONS)crsd daemon backup the OCR every for hours, configuration is stored in OCR Event Manager (EVM) evmd daemon, publish events LMSn coordinate block updates LMON global enqueue for shared locks LMDn manages requests for global enqueues LCK0 handle resources not requiring Cache Fusion DIAG collect diagnostic info GSD 9i is not compatible with 10g

 

FAN Fast Application Notification - Must connect using service Logged to: &ORA_CRS_HOME/racg/dump $ORA_CRS_HOHE/log/<nodename>/racg <event_type> VERSION=<n.n> service=<service_namne.db_domain_name> [database=<db_unique_name> [instance=<instance_name>]] [host=<hostname>] status=<event_status> reason=<event_reason> [card=<n>] timestamp=<event_date> <event_time> event_type Description SERVICE Primary application service event SRV_PRECONNECT Preconnect application service event (TAF) SERVICEMEMBER Application service on a specific instance event DATABASE Database event INSTANCE Instance event ASM ASM instance event NODE Cluster node event #FAN events can control the workload per instance for each service

 

Oracle Notification Service ONS - Transmits FAN events - For every FAN event status change, all executables in $ORA_CRS_HOME/racg/usrco are launched (callout scripts) The ONS process is $ORA_CRS_HOME/opmn/bin/ons Arguments: -d: Run in daemon mode -a <command>: <command> can be [ping, shutdown, reload, or debug] [$ORA_CRS_HOME/opmn/conf/ons.config] localport=6lOO remoteport=6200 loglevel=3 useocr=on onsctl start/stop/ping/reconfig/debug/detailed

 

FCF Fast Connection Failover - A JDBC application configured to use FCF automatically subscribes to FAN events - A JDBC application must use service names to connect - A JDBC application must use implicit connection cache - $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/ons.jar must be in classpath - -Doracle.ons.oraclehome - <location of oracle home> or System.setProperty ("oracle.ons.oraclehome", "/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_l"); OracleDataSource ods = new OracleDataSource(); ods.setUser("USERl"); ods.setPassword("USERl"); ods.setConnectionCachingEnabled(true); ods.setFastConnectionFailoverEnabled(true); ods.setConnectionCacheName("MyCache"); ods.setConnectionCacheProperties(cp); ods.setURL("jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(LOAD_BALANCE=on)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=londonl-vip)(PORT=152l)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=london2-vip)(PORT=152l)(CON NECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=SERVICE1)))")

 

Check for main Clusterware services up #check Event Manager up ps -ef | grep evmd #check Cluster Synchronization Services up ps -ef | grep ocssd #check Cluster Ready Services up ps -ef | grep crsd #check Oracle Notification Service ps -ef | grep ons [/etc/inittab] ... hl:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.evmd run >/dev/null 2>&l </dev/null h2:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.cssd fatal >/dev/null 2>&l </dev/null h3:35:respawn:/etc/init.d/init.crsd run >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null

 

crs_stat #Tested, as root #Lists the status of an application profile and resources #crs_stat [resource_name [...]] [-v] [-l] [-q] [-c cluster_node] $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora.e2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE e2 ora.e2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE e2 ora.e2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE e2 VIP Normal Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora.e2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE e2 ora.e2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE e3 VIP Node 2 is down Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora.e2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE e2 ora.e2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE e2 crs_stat -p ... AUTO_START = #2 CRS will not start after system boot crs_stat NAME=ora.RAC.RACl.inst TYPE=application TARGET=ONLINE STATE=ONLINE on londonl NAME=ora.RAC.SERVICEl.RACl.srv TYPE=application TARGET=OFFLINE STATE=OFFLINE #use -v for verbose resource use #use -p for a lot of details #use -ls to view resources and relative owners

 

Voting disk On Shared storage, Used by CSS, contains nodes that are currently available within the cluster If Voting disks are lost and no backup is available then Oracle Clusterware must be reinstalled 3 way multiplexing is ideal #backup a voting disk online dd if=<fname> of=<out_fname> crsctl #Tested, as oracle $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crsctl check crs Cluster Synchronization Services appears healthy Cluster Ready Services appears healthy Event Manager appears healthy #add online a new voting disk(10.2), -force if Oracle Clusterware is not started crsctl add css votedisk 'new votedisk path' -force crsctl start/stop/enable/disable crs #set/unset parameters on OCR crsctl set/unset <parameter> <value> You can list the currently configured voting disks: crsctl query css votedisk 0. 0 /u02/oradata/RAC/CSSFilel 1. 1 /u03/oradata/RAC/CSSFile2 2. 2 /u04/oradata/RAC/CSSFile3 Dynamically add and remove voting disks to an existing Oracle Clusterware installation: crsctl add/delete css votedisk <path> -force CRS log and debug #as root, enable extra debug for the running CRS daemons as well as those running in future #enable to inspect system reboots crsctl debug log crs #Collect log and traces to upload to Oracle Support diagcollection.pl

 

OCR - Oracle Cluster Registry [/etc/oracle/ocr.loc](10g) or [/etc/oracle/srvConfig.loc](9i, still exists in 10g for compatibility) ocrconfig_loc=/dev/raw/rawl ocrmirrorconfig_loc=/dev/raw/raw2 local_only=FALSE OCRCONFIG - Command-line tool for managing Oracle Cluster Registry #recover OCR logically, must be done on all nodes ocrconfig -import exp.dmp #export OCR content logically ocrconfig -export #recover OCR from OCR backup ocrconfig -restore bck.ocr #show backup status #crsd daemon backup the OCR every for hours, the most recent backup file is backup00.ocr ocrconfig -showbackup londonl 2005/08/04 11:15:29 /uOl/app/oracle/product/lO.2.0/crs/cdata/crs londonl 2005/08/03 22:24:32 /uOl/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/cdata/crs #change OCR autobackuo location ocrconfig -backuploc #must be run on each affected node ocrconfig -repair ocr <filename> ocrconfig -repair ocrmirror <filename> #force Oracle Clusterware to restart on a node, may lose recent OCR updates ocrconfig -overwrite CVU - Cluster verification utility to get status of CRS resources dd : use it safely to backup voting disks when nodes are added/removed #verify restore cluvfy comp ocr -n all ocrcheck #OCR integrity check, validate the accessibility of the device and its block integrity log to current dir or to $OCR_HOME/log/<node>/client ocrdump #dump the OCR content to a text file, if succeds then integrity of backups is verified OCRDUMP - Identify the interconnect being used $ORA CRS HOME/bin/ocrdump.bin -stdout -keyname SYSTEM.css.misscount -xml

 

Pre install, prerequisite (./run)cluvfy : run from install media or CRS_HOME, verify prerequisites on all nodes Post installation - Backup root.sh - Set up other user accounts - Verify Enterprise Manager / Cluster Registry by running srvctl config database -d db_name

 

SRVCTL Stores infos in OCR, manages: Database, Instance, Service, Node applications, ASM, Listener srvctl config database -d <db_name> : Verify Enterprise Manager / Cluster Registry set SRVM_TRACE=TRUE environment var to create Java based tool trace/debug file for srvctl #-v to check services srvctl status database -d RAC -v SERVICE1 srvctl start database -d <name> [-o mount] srvctl stop database -d <name> [-o stop_options] #moves parameter file srvctl modify database -d name -p /u03/oradata/RAC/spfileRAC.ora srvctl remove database -d TEST #Verify the OCR configuration srvctl config database - TEST srvctl start instance -d RACDB -i "RAC3,RAC4" srvctl stop instance -d <orcl> -i "orcl3,orcl4" -o immediate srvctl add instance -d RACDB -i RAC3 -n londonS #move the instance to node london4 srvctl modify instance -d RAC -i RAC3 -n london4 #set a dependency of instance RAC3 to +ASM3 srvctl modify instance -d RAC -i RAC3 -s +ASM3 #removes an ASM dependency srvctl modify instance -d RAC -i RAC3 -r #stop all applications on node srvctl stop nodeapps -n londonl #-a display the VIP configuration srvctl config nodeapps -n londonl -a srvctl add nodeapps -n london3 -o $0RACLE_H0ME -A london3-vip/255.255.0.0/eth0

 

Services Changes are recorded in OCR only! Must use DBMS_SERVICE to update the dictionary srvctl start service -d RAC -s "SERVICE1,SERVICE2" srvctl status service -d RAC -s "SERVICE1,SERVICE2" srvctl stop service -d RAC -s "SERVICE1,SERVICE2" -f srvctl disable service -d RAC -s "SERVICE2" -i RAC4 srvctl remove service -d RAC -s "SERVICE2" #relocate from RAC2 to RAC4 srvctl relocate service -d RAC -s "SERVICE2" -i RAC2 -t RAC4 #preferred RAC1,RAC2 and available RAC3,RAC4 #-P PRECONNECT automatically creates a ERP and ERP_PRECONNECT service to use as BACKUP in tns_names #See TNSnames configuration #the service is NOT started, must be started manually (dbca do it automatically) srvctl add service -d ERP -s SERVICE2 -i "RAC1,RAC2" -a "RAC3,RAC4" -P PRECONNECT #show configuration, -a shows TAF conf srvctl config service -d RAC -a #modify an existing service srvctl modify service -d RACDB -s "SERVICE1" -i "RAC1,RAC2" -a "RAC3,RAC4" srvctl stop service -d RACDB -s "SERVICE1" srvctl start service -d RACDB -s "SERVICE1" Views GV$SERVICES GV$ACTIVE_SERVICES GV$SERVICEMETRIC GV$SERVICEMETRIC_HISTORY GV$SERVICE_WAIT_CLASS GV$SERVICE_EVENT GV$SERVICE_STATS GV$SERV_MOD_ACT_STATS

 

SQL for RAC select * from V$ACTIVE_INSTANCES; Cache Fusion - GRD Global Resource Directory GES(Global Enqueue Service) GCS(Global Cache Service) Data Guard & RAC - Configuration files at primary location can be stored in any shared ASM diskgroup, on shared raw devices, on any shared cluster file system. They simply have to be shared

 

VIP virtual IP - Both application/RAC VIP fail over if related application fail and accept new connections - Recommended RAC VIP sharing among database instances but not among different applications because... - ...VIP fail over if the application fail over - A failed over VIP application accepts new connection - Each VIP requires an unused and resolvable IP address - VIP address should be registered in DNS - VIP address should be on the same subnet of the public network - VIPs are used to prevent connection requests timeout during client connection attempts Changing a VIP 1- Stop VIP dependent cluster components on one node 2- Make changes on DNS 3- Change VIP using SRVCTL 4- Restart VIP dependent components 5- Repeat above on remaining nodes

 

oifcfg allocating and deallocating network interfaces, get values from OCR To display a list of networks oifcfg getif eth1 192.168.1.0 global cluster_interconnect eth0 192.168.0.0 global public display a list of current subnets oifcfg iflist etho 147.43.1.0 ethl 192.168.1.0 To include a description of the subnet, specify the -p option: oifcfg iflist -p ethO 147.43.1.0 UNKNOWN ethl 192.168.1.0 PRIVATE In 10.2 public interfaces are UNKNOWN. To include the subnet mask, append the -n option to the -p option: oifcfg if list -p -n etho 147.43.1.0 UNKNOWN 255.255.255.0 ethl 192.168.1.0 PRIVATE 255.255.255.0

 

Db parameters with SAME VALUE across all instances active_instance_count archive_lag_target compatible cluster_database RAC param cluster_database_instance RAC param #Define network interfaces that will be used for interconnect #it is not a failover but a redistribution. If an address not work then stop all #Overrides the OCR cluster_interconnects RAC param = 192.168.0.10; 192.168.0.11; ... control_files db_block_size db_domain db_files db_name db_recovery_file_dest db_recovery_file_dest_size db_unique_name dml_locks (when 0) instance_type (rdbms or asm) max_commit_propagation_delay RAC param parallel_max_servers remote_login_password_file trace_enabled #cannot be mixed AUTO and MANUAL in a RAC undo_management Db parameters with INSTANCE specific VALUE across all instances instance_name instance_number thread undo_tablespace #system param Listener parameters local_listener='(ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.0.13) (PORT = 1521)))' #allow pmon to register with local listener when not using 1521 port remote_listener = '(ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.2.9) (PORT = 1521)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST =192.168.2.10)(PORT = 1521)))' #make the listener aware of the load of the listeners of other nodes Important Rac Parameters gc_files_to_locks #other than default disable Cache Fusion recovery_parallelism #number of redo application server processes in instance or media recovery Rac and Standby parameters dg_broker_config_file1 #shared between primary and standby instances dg_broker_config_file2 #different from dg_broker_config_file1, shared between primary and standby instances

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Shared contents datafiles, controlfiles, spfiles, redo log Shared or local? RAW_Dev File_Syst ASM NFS OCFS - Datafiles : shared mandatory - Control files : shared mandatory - Redo log : shared mandatory - SPfile : shared mandatory - OCR and vote : shared mandatory Y Y N - Archived log : shared not mandatory. N Y N Y - Undo : local - Flash Recovery : shared Y Y Y - Data Guard broker conf.: shared(prim. & stdby) Y Y

 

Adding logfile thread groups for a new instance #To support a new instance on your RAC 1) alter database add logfile thread 3 group 7; 1) alter database add logfile thread 3 group 8; #makes the thread available for use by any instance 2) alter database enable thread 3; # if you want to change an used thread 2) alter system set thread=3 scope=pfile sid='RAC01' 3) srvctl stop instance -d RACDB -i RAC01

 

Views and queries select * from GV$CACHE_TRANSFER

 

An instance failed to start, what do we do? 1) Check the instance alert.log 2) Check the Oracle Clusterware software alert.log 3) Check the resource state using CRS_STAT

Install

See official Note 239998.1 for removing crs installation
See http://startoracle.com/2007/09/30/so-you-want-to-play-with-oracle-11gs-rac-heres-how/ to install 11g RAC on VMware
See http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2_iscsi.html to install on Linux with iSCSI disks
See http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2RACInstallationOnCentos4UsingVMware.php to install on VMware

#If using VMware remember to allow shared disks disabling locking
#Obviously this is not required if you use OCFS or ASM
disk.locking = "FALSE"

See OCFS Oracle Cluster Filesystem

Prerequisites check #check node connectivity and Clusterware integrity ./runcluvfy.sh stage -pre dbinst -n all ./runcluvfy.sh stage -post hwos -n "linuxes,linuxes1" -verbose WARNING: Package cvuqdisk not installed. rpm -Uvh clusterware/rpm/cvuqdisk-1.0.1-1.rpm WARNING: Unable to determine the sharedness of /dev/sdf on nodes: linuxes1,linuxes1,linuxes1,linuxes1,linuxes1,linuxes1,linuxes,linuxes,linuxes,linuxes,linuxes,linuxes Safely ignore this error ./runcluvfy.sh comp peer -n "linuxes,linuxes1" -verbose ./runcluvfy.sh comp nodecon -n "linuxes,linuxes1" -verbose ./runcluvfy.sh comp sys -n "linuxes,linuxes1" -p crs -verbose ./runcluvfy.sh comp admprv -n "linuxes,linuxes1" -verbose -o user_equiv ./runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -n "linuxes,linuxes1" -r 10gR2

 

Restart intallation - Remove from each node su -c "$ORA_CRS_HOME/install/rootdelete.sh; $ORA_CRS_HOME/install/rootdeinstall.sh" #oracle user export DISPLAY=192.168.0.1:0.0 /app/crs/oui/bin/runInstaller -removeHome -noClusterEnabled ORACLE_HOME=/app/crs LOCAL_NODE=linuxes rm -rf $ORA_CRS_HOME/* #root su -c "chown oracle:dba /dev/raw/*; chmod 660 /dev/raw/*; rm -rf /var/tmp/.oracle; rm -rf /tmp/.oracle"

#Format rawdevices using
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/raw/raw6 bs=1M count=250

#If related error message appears during installation, manually launch on related node
/app/crs/oui/bin/runInstaller -attachHome -noClusterEnabled ORACLE_HOME=/app/crs ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraCrsHome CLUSTER_NODES=linuxes,linuxes1 CRS=true  "INVENTORY_LOCATION=/app/oracle/oraInventory" LOCAL_NODE=linuxes

runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -n linuxes -verbose

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/etc/hosts example # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail, 127.0.0.1 localhost 147.43.1.101 londonl 147.43.1.102 london2 #VIP is usable only after VIPCA utility run, #should be created on the public interface. Remember that VIPCA is a GUI tool 147.43.1.201 londonl-vip 147.43.1.202 london2-vip 192.168.1.1 londonl-priv 192.168.1.2 london2-priv

 

Kernel Parameters(/etc/sysctl.conf) Recommended Values kernel.sem (semmsl) 250 kernel.sem (semmns) 32000 kernel.sem (semopm) 100 kernel.sem (semmni) 128 kernel.shmall 2097152 kernel.shmmax Half the size of physical memory kernel.shmmni 4096 fs.file-max 65536 net.core.rmem_default 262144 net.core.rmem_max 262144 net.core.wmem_default 262144 net.core.wmem_max 262144 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 1024 to 65000

 

RAC restrictions - dbms_alert, both publisher and subscriber must be on same instance, AQ is the workaround - dbms_pipe, only works on the same instance, AQ is the workaround - UTL_FILE, directories, external tables and BFILEs need to be on shared storage

 

Implementing the HA High Availability Framework Use srvctl to start/stop applications #Manually create a script that OCR will use to start/stop/status #Create an application VIP. #This command generates an application profile called haf demovip.cap in the $ORA_CRS_HOME/crs/ public directory. $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_profile -create hafdemovip -t application -a $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/usrvip -o oi=eth0,ov=147.43.1.200,on=255.255.0.0 #As the oracle user, register the VIP with Oracle Clusterware: ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_register hafdemovip #As the root user, set the owner of the apphcation VIP to root: $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_setperm hafdemovip -o root #As the root user, grant the oracle user permission to run the script: $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_setperm hafdemovip -u user:oracle:r-x #As the oracle user, start the application VIP: $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_start hafdemovip 2. Create an application profile. $ORA_CRS_HOHE/bin/crs_profile -create hafdemo -t application -d "HAF Demo" -r hafdemovip -a /tmp/HAFDemoAction -0 ci=5,ra=60 3. Register the application profile with Oracle Clusterware. $ORA_CRS_HOHE/bin/crs_register hafdemo $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_start hafdemo

 

CRS commands crs_profile crs_register crs_unregister crs_getperm crs_setperm crs_start crs_stop crs_stat crs_relocate

 

Server side callouts Oracle instance up(/down?) Service member down(/up?) Shadow application service up(/down?)

 

Adding a new node - Configure hardware and OS - With NETCA reconfigure listeners and add the new one - $ORA_CRS_HOME/oui/bin/addnode.sh from one of existing nodes to define the new one to all existing nodes - $ASM_HOME/oui/bin/addnode.sh from one of existing nodes (if using ASM) - $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/addnode.sh from one of existing nodes - racgons -add_config to add ONS metadata to OCR from one of existing nodes Removing a node from a cluster - Remove node from clusterware - Check that ONS configuration has been updated on other node - Check that database and instances are terminated on node to remove - Check that node has been removed from database and ASM repository - Check that software has been removed from database and ASM homes on node to remove

 

RAC contentions - enq:HW - contention and gc current grant wait events Use larger uniform extent size for objects - enq: TX - index contention Re-create the index as a global hash partitioned index. Increase the sequence cache size if retaining the sequence. Re-create the table using a natural key instead of a surrogate key.