oracle 10g rac nfs,Oracle 10g RAC On Linux Using NFS

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This article describes the installation of

Oracle 10g release 2 (10.2.0.1) RAC on Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux

4.5) using NFS to provide the shared storage.

Introduction

Download Software

Operating System Installation

Oracle Installation Prerequisites

Create Shared Disks

Install the Clusterware Software

Install the Database Software

Create a Database using the DBCA

TNS Configuration

Check the Status of the RAC

Direct and Asynchronous I/O

IntroductionNFS is an abbreviation of Network File System, a

platform independent technology created by Sun Microsystems that allows

shared access to files stored on computers via an interface called the

Virtual File System (VFS) that runs on top of TCP/IP. Computers that

share files are considered NFS servers, while those that access shared

files are considered NFS clients. An individual computer can be either

an NFS server, a NFS client or both.

We can use NFS to provide shared storage for a RAC installation. In a

production environment we would expect the NFS server to be a NAS, but

for testing it can just as easily be another server, or even one of the

RAC nodes itself.

To cut costs, this articles uses one of the RAC nodes as the source

of the shared storage. Obviously, this means if that node goes down the

whole database is lost, so it's not a sensible idea to do this if you

are testing high availability. If you have access to a NAS or a third

server you can easily use that for the shared storage, making the whole

solution much more resilient. Whichever route you take, the fundamentals

of the installation are the same.

This article was inspired by the blog postings of Kevin Closson

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Download SoftwareDownload the following software.

Oracle

Enterprise Linux

Oracle 10g (10.2.0.1) CRS and DB software

Operating System InstallationThis article uses Oracle Enterprise

Linux 4.5, but it will work equally well on CentOS 4 or Red Hat