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Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

Changes in This Release for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide

• Changes in Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 1 (12.1)

1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Checklist

• 1.1 System Hardware, Software and Configuration Checklists
  • 1.1.1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Server Hardware Checklist
  • 1.1.2 Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC Environment Checklist
  • 1.1.3 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Network Checklist
  • 1.1.4 Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC Upgrades Checklist
  • 1.1.5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Configuration Tasks
  • 1.1.6 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Starting the Installation Tasks

2 Configuring Servers for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC

• 2.1 Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration
• 2.2 General Server Minimum Requirements
• 2.3 Server Storage Minimum Requirements
• 2.4 Server Memory Minimum Requirements
  • 2.4.1 64-bit System Minimum Memory Requirements
  • 2.4.2 Shared Memory Requirements

3 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC

• 3.1 Reviewing Operating System and Software Upgrade Best Practices
  • 3.1.1 General Upgrade Best Practices
  • 3.1.2 Oracle ASM Upgrade Notifications
  • 3.1.3 Rolling Upgrade Procedure Notifications
• 3.2 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices
• 3.3 Using Installation Fixup Scripts
• 3.4 Logging In to a Remote System Using X Terminal
• 3.5 About Software Requirements
• 3.6 Operating System Requirements List for HP-UX Itanium Platforms
• 3.7 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for HP-UX
  • 3.7.1 Installation Requirements for Open Database Connectivity
    • 3.7.1.1 About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database
    • 3.7.1.2 Installing ODBC Drivers for HP-UX Itanium Systems
  • 3.7.2 Installation Requirements for Oracle Messaging Gateway
    • 3.7.2.1 About Oracle Messaging Gateway
    • 3.7.2.2 Installing Oracle Messaging Gateway
  • 3.7.3 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for HP-UX Itanium Systems
    • 3.7.3.1 About Programming Environments and Oracle Database
    • 3.7.3.2 Configuring Support for Programming Environments
  • 3.7.4 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers
• 3.8 Checking the Software Requirements
• 3.9 Setting Network Time Protocol for Cluster Time Synchronization
• 3.10 Using Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation
• 3.11 Creating Required Symbolic Links
• 3.12 Setting the Minor Number for Device Files
• 3.13 Checking the Run Level and Name Service Cache Daemon

4 Configuring Networks for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC

• 4.1 Network Interface Hardware Requirements
• 4.2 IP Interface Configuration Requirements
• 4.3 Private Interconnect Redundant Network Requirements
• 4.4 IPv4 and IPv6 Protocol Requirements
• 4.5 Oracle Grid Infrastructure IP Name and Address Requirements
  • 4.5.1 About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Name Resolution Options
  • 4.5.2 Cluster Name and SCAN Requirements
  • 4.5.3 IP Name and Address Requirements For Grid Naming Service (GNS)
  • 4.5.4 IP Name and Address Requirements For Multi-Cluster GNS
    • 4.5.4.1 About Multi-Cluster GNS Networks
    • 4.5.4.2 Configuring GNS Server Clusters
    • 4.5.4.3 Configuring GNS Client Clusters
    • 4.5.4.4 Creating and Using a GNS Client Data File
  • 4.5.5 IP Name and Address Requirements for Standard Cluster Manual Configuration
• 4.6 About Oracle Flex ASM Clusters Networks
• 4.7 Broadcast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• 4.8 Multicast Requirements for Networks Used by Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• 4.9 Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
  • 4.9.1 Choosing a Subdomain Name for Use with Grid Naming Service
  • 4.9.2 Configuring DNS for Cluster Domain Delegation to Grid Naming Service
• 4.10 Configuration Requirements for Oracle Flex Clusters
  • 4.10.1 General Requirements for Oracle Flex Cluster Configuration
  • 4.10.2 Oracle Flex Cluster DHCP-Assigned Virtual IP (VIP) Addresses
  • 4.10.3 Oracle Flex Cluster Manually-Assigned Addresses
• 4.11 Grid Naming Service Standard Cluster Configuration Example
• 4.12 Manual IP Address Configuration Example
• 4.13 Network Interface Configuration Options

5 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC

• 5.1 Creating Groups, Users and Paths for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 5.1.1 Determining If the Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exists
  • 5.1.2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
  • 5.1.3 Creating the Oracle Grid Infrastructure User
    • 5.1.3.1 Understanding Restrictions for Oracle Software Installation Owners
    • 5.1.3.2 Determining if an Oracle Software Owner User Exists
    • 5.1.3.3 Creating or Modifying an Oracle Software Owner User for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 5.1.4 About the Oracle Base Directory for the Grid User
  • 5.1.5 About the Oracle Home Directory for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
  • 5.1.6 Creating the Oracle Home and Oracle Base Directory
  • 5.1.7 About Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and Users
    • 5.1.7.1 Overview of Creating Job Role Separation Groups and Users
  • 5.1.8 Descriptions of Job Role Separation Groups and Users
    • 5.1.8.1 Oracle Software Owner For Each Oracle Software Product
    • 5.1.8.2 Standard Oracle Database Groups for Job Role Separation
    • 5.1.8.3 Extended Oracle Database Groups for Job Role Separation
    • 5.1.8.4 Oracle ASM Groups for Job Role Separation
  • 5.1.9 Creating Job Role Separation Operating System Privileges Groups and User
    • 5.1.9.1 Creating the OSDBA Group to Prepare for Database Installations
    • 5.1.9.2 Creating an OSOPER Group for Database Installations
    • 5.1.9.3 Creating the OSASM Group
    • 5.1.9.4 Creating the OSOPER for ASM Group
    • 5.1.9.5 Creating the OSDBA for ASM Group for Database Access to Oracle ASM
    • 5.1.9.6 Oracle Software Owner User Installation Tasks
    • 5.1.9.7 Creating Identical Database Users and Groups on Other Cluster Nodes
  • 5.1.10 Example of Creating Standard Groups, Users, and Paths
  • 5.1.11 Example of Creating Role-allocated Groups, Users, and Paths
    • 5.1.11.1 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Groups and Users Example
    • 5.1.11.2 Oracle Database DB1 Groups and Users Example
    • 5.1.11.3 Oracle Database DB2 Groups and Users Example
  • 5.1.12 Creating the External Jobs User Account for HP-UX
• 5.2 Configuring Grid Infrastructure Software Owner User Environments
  • 5.2.1 Environment Requirements for Oracle Software Owner
  • 5.2.2 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments
  • 5.2.3 Setting Remote Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration
  • 5.2.4 Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands
• 5.3 Enabling Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
  • 5.3.1 Requirements for Enabling IPMI
  • 5.3.2 Configuring the IPMI Management Network
  • 5.3.3 Configuring the BMC
    • 5.3.3.1 Configuring the iLO Processor on HP-UX
• 5.4 Determining Root Script Execution Plan
• 5.5 Creating the Oracle Base Directory Path

6 Configuring Storage for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC

• 6.1 Reviewing Oracle Grid Infrastructure Storage Options
  • 6.1.1 Supported Storage Options
  • 6.1.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
    • 6.1.2.1 General Storage Considerations for Oracle Clusterware
    • 6.1.2.2 General Storage Considerations for Oracle RAC
  • 6.1.3 Guidelines for Using Oracle ASM Disk Groups for Storage
  • 6.1.4 Using Logical Volume Managers with Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
  • 6.1.5 After You Have Selected Disk Storage Options
• 6.2 About Shared File System Storage Configuration
  • 6.2.1 Requirements for Using a Shared File System
  • 6.2.2 Requirements for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Shared File System Volume Sizes
  • 6.2.3 Deciding to Use a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
  • 6.2.4 Deciding to Use Direct NFS Client for Data Files
    • 6.2.4.1 About Direct NFS Client Storage
    • 6.2.4.2 About the oranfstab File and Direct NFS Client
    • 6.2.4.3 About Mounting NFS Storage Devices with Direct NFS Client
    • 6.2.4.4 Specifying Network Paths with the oranfstab File
  • 6.2.5 Deciding to Use NFS for Data Files
• 6.3 Configuring Operating System and Direct NFS Client
  • 6.3.1 Configuring Storage NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters
  • 6.3.2 Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle Clusterware
  • 6.3.3 Checking NFS Mount and Buffer Size Parameters for Oracle RAC
  • 6.3.4 Checking TCP Network Protocol Buffer for Direct NFS Client
  • 6.3.5 Enabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Manager Control of NFS
  • 6.3.6 Specifying Network Paths with the Oranfstab File
  • 6.3.7 Enabling Hybrid Columnar Compression on Direct NFS Client
  • 6.3.8 Creating Directories for Oracle Clusterware Files on Shared File Systems
  • 6.3.9 Creating Directories for Oracle Database Files on Shared File Systems
  • 6.3.10 Disabling Direct NFS Client Oracle Disk Management Control of NFS
• 6.4 Oracle Automatic Storage Management Storage Configuration
  • 6.4.1 Configuring Storage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management
    • 6.4.1.1 Identifying Storage Requirements for Oracle ASM
    • 6.4.1.2 Creating Files on a NAS Device for Use with Oracle ASM
    • 6.4.1.3 Using an Existing Oracle ASM Disk Group
    • 6.4.1.4 Configuring Disk Devices for Oracle ASM
  • 6.4.2 Using Disk Groups with Oracle Database Files on Oracle ASM
    • 6.4.2.1 Identifying and Using Existing Oracle Database Disk Groups on ASM
    • 6.4.2.2 Creating Disk Groups for Oracle Database Data Files
    • 6.4.2.3 Creating and Using Oracle ASM Credentials File
  • 6.4.3 Upgrading Existing Oracle ASM Instances

7 Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

• 7.1 Installing Grid Infrastructure
  • 7.1.1 Running OUI to Install Grid Infrastructure
  • 7.1.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Cluster Configuration File
• 7.2 Installing Grid Infrastructure Using a Software-Only Installation
  • 7.2.1 Installing the Software Binaries
  • 7.2.2 Configuring the Software Binaries
  • 7.2.3 Configuring the Software Binaries Using a Response File
  • 7.2.4 Setting Ping Targets for Network Checks
• 7.3 Confirming Oracle Clusterware Function
• 7.4 Confirming Oracle ASM Function for Oracle Clusterware Files
• 7.5 Understanding Offline Processes in Oracle Grid Infrastructure

8 Oracle Grid Infrastructure Postinstallation Procedures

• 8.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks
• 8.2 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
  • 8.2.1 Configuring IPMI-based Failure Isolation Using Crsctl
  • 8.2.2 Tuning Semaphore Parameters
  • 8.2.3 Create a Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
    • 8.2.3.1 About the Fast Recovery Area and the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
    • 8.2.3.2 Creating the Fast Recovery Area Disk Group
  • 8.2.4 Checking the SCAN Configuration
  • 8.2.5 Running Oracle RAC Configuration Audit Tool
  • 8.2.6 Setting Resource Limits for Oracle Clusterware and Associated Databases and Applications
• 8.3 Using Earlier Oracle Database Releases with Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 8.3.1 General Restrictions for Using Earlier Oracle Database Versions
  • 8.3.2 Managing Server Pools with Earlier Database Versions
  • 8.3.3 Using ASMCA to Administer Disk Groups for Earlier Database Versions
  • 8.3.4 Pinning Cluster Nodes for Oracle Database Release 10.x or 11.x
  • 8.3.5 Using the Correct LSNRCTL Commands
• 8.4 Modifying Oracle Clusterware Binaries After Installation

9 How to Modify or Deinstall Oracle Grid Infrastructure

• 9.1 Deciding When to Deinstall Oracle Clusterware
• 9.2 Migrating Standalone Grid Infrastructure Servers to a Cluster
• 9.3 Relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Binaries
• 9.4 Changing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Path
• 9.5 Unconfiguring Oracle Clusterware Without Removing Binaries
• 9.6 Removing Oracle Clusterware and ASM
  • 9.6.1 About the Deinstallation Tool
    • 9.6.1.1 Deinstalling Previous Release Grid Home
  • 9.6.2 Deinstallation Tool Command Example for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • 9.6.3 Deinstallation Response File Example for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster

A Troubleshooting the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Process

• A.1 Best Practices for Contacting Oracle Support
• A.2 General Installation Issues
  • A.2.1 Other Installation Issues and Errors
• A.3 Interpreting CVU "Unknown" Output Messages Using Verbose Mode
• A.4 Interpreting CVU Messages About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Setup
• A.5 About the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Alert Log
• A.6 Performing Cluster Diagnostics During Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
• A.7 About Using CVU Cluster Healthchecks After Installation
• A.8 Interconnect Configuration Issues
• A.9 SCAN VIP and SCAN Listener Issues
• A.10 Storage Configuration Issues
  • A.10.1 Recovery from Losing a Node File System or Grid Home
• A.11 Failed or Incomplete Installations and Upgrades
• A.12 Completing Failed or Interrupted Installations and Upgrades
  • A.12.1 Continuing Incomplete Installations on First Nodes
  • A.12.2 Continuing Installations on Nodes Other Than the First Node

B How to Upgrade to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 1

• B.1 Back Up the Oracle Software Before Upgrades
• B.2 Unset Oracle Environment Variables
• B.3 About Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle ASM Upgrade and Downgrade
• B.4 Options for Clusterware and Oracle ASM Upgrades and Downgrades
• B.5 Restrictions for Clusterware and Oracle ASM Upgrades
• B.6 Preparing to Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
  • B.6.1 Checks to Complete Before Upgrade an Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
  • B.6.2 Running the ORAchk Upgrade Readiness Assessment
• B.7 Using CVU to Validate Readiness for Oracle Clusterware Upgrades
  • B.7.1 About the CVU Grid Upgrade Validation Command Options
  • B.7.2 Example of Verifying System Upgrade Readiness for Grid Infrastructure
  • B.7.3 Verifying System Readiness for Oracle Database Upgrades
• B.8 Understanding Rolling Upgrades Using Batches
• B.9 Performing Rolling Upgrade of Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • B.9.1 Performing a Standard Upgrade from an Earlier Release
  • B.9.2 Completing an Oracle Clusterware Upgrade when Nodes Become Unreachable
  • B.9.3 Upgrading Inaccessible Nodes After Forcing an Upgrade
  • B.9.4 Changing the First Node for Install and Upgrade
  • B.9.5 Performing Rolling Upgrades of Oracle Automatic Storage Management
    • B.9.5.1 About Full Release Rolling Upgrades of Oracle ASM
    • B.9.5.2 About Individual (One-Off) Oracle ASM Patches
    • B.9.5.3 About Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Patch Levels
  • B.9.6 Preparing to Complete a Separate Upgrade of Oracle ASM
  • B.9.7 Patching Oracle ASM Separately from an Oracle Grid Infrastructure Upgrade
  • B.9.8 Upgrading Oracle ASM to a Software Patch Level
• B.10 Updating Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Target Parameters
  • B.10.1 Updating the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Target After Upgrades
  • B.10.2 Updating the Enterprise Manager Agent Base Directory After Upgrades
• B.11 Unlocking the Existing Oracle Clusterware Installation
• B.12 Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade
  • B.12.1 About Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade
  • B.12.2 Downgrading to Releases Before 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2)
  • B.12.3 Downgrading to 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) or Later Release

C Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files

• C.1 How Response Files Work
  • C.1.1 Reasons for Using Silent Mode or Response File Mode
  • C.1.2 General Procedure for Using Response Files
• C.2 Preparing a Response File
  • C.2.1 Editing a Response File Template
  • C.2.2 Recording a Response File
• C.3 Running the Installer Using a Response File
• C.4 Running Net Configuration Assistant Using a Response File
• C.5 Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File
  • C.5.1 About the Postinstallation Configuration File
  • C.5.2 Running Postinstallation Configuration Using a Response File

D Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster Installation Concepts

• D.1 Understanding Preinstallation Configuration
  • D.1.1 Optimal Flexible Architecture Guidelines for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  • D.1.2 Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Restart Differences
  • D.1.3 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Group
  • D.1.4 Understanding the Oracle Inventory Directory
  • D.1.5 Understanding the Oracle Base directory
  • D.1.6 Understanding the Oracle Home for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software
  • D.1.7 Location of Oracle Base and Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software Directories
• D.2 Understanding Network Addresses
  • D.2.1 About the Public IP Address
  • D.2.2 About the Private IP Address
  • D.2.3 About the Virtual IP Address
  • D.2.4 About the Grid Naming Service (GNS) Virtual IP Address
  • D.2.5 About the SCAN for Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installations
• D.3 Understanding Network Time Requirements
• D.4 Understanding Oracle Flex Clusters and Oracle ASM Flex Clusters
• D.5 Understanding Storage Configuration
  • D.5.1 About Migrating Existing Oracle ASM Instances
  • D.5.2 Standalone Oracle ASM Installations to Clustered Installation Conversions
• D.6 Understanding Out-of-Place Upgrade

E How to Complete Installation Tasks Manually

• E.1 Configuring SSH Manually on All Cluster Nodes
  • E.1.1 Checking Existing SSH Configuration on the System
  • E.1.2 Configuring SSH on Cluster Nodes
    • E.1.2.1 Create SSH Directory, and Create SSH Keys On Each Node
    • E.1.2.2 Add All Keys to a Common authorized_keys File
  • E.1.3 Enabling SSH User Equivalency on Cluster Nodes
• E.2 Configuring Kernel Parameters
  • E.2.1 Minimal Kernel Parameter Values
  • E.2.2 Setting Kernel Parameters Manually
    • E.2.2.1 Modifying Kernel Settings Using KCTUNE
    • E.2.2.2 Modifying Kernel Settings Using SMH
    • E.2.2.3 Modifying Kernel Settings Using KCWEB
  • E.2.3 Configuring Kernel Parameters on HP-UX Systems
• E.3 Setting UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters Manually

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