Preface

Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide explains how to install and configure Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). This preface contains the following topics:

Intended Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Structure
Related Documents
Conventions

Intended Audience

Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide provides configuration information for network and system administrators, and database installation information for database administrators (DBAs) who install and configure RAC.

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

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Structure

This document is divided into five parts. It contains the following chapters:

Part I: "Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Planning and Requirements"

Part I introduces the Oracle Clusterware and RAC installation process.

Chapter 1, "Introduction to Installing and Configuring Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters"

This chapter describes the RAC installation process and provides Oracle Clusterware and RAC installation planning information.

Part II: Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Pre-Installation Procedures

Part II describes the platform-specific pre-installation procedures for installing Oracle Clusterware and RAC.

Chapter 2, "Pre-Installation Tasks"

This chapter describes the server pre-installation procedures for installing Oracle Clusterware and RAC.

Chapter 3, "Configuring Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Database Storage"

This chapter describes pre-installation procedures for configuring storage for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters.

Part III: "Installing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters, Creating Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases, and Performing Post-Installation Tasks"

Part III describes how to install Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters for Linux.

Chapter 4, "Installing Oracle Clusterware"

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Clusterware for Linux.

Chapter 5, "Installing Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters"

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters on all operating systems.

Chapter 6, "Creating Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases with Database Configuration Assistant"

This chapter explains how to use Database Configuration Assistant to create RAC databases.

Chapter 7, "Oracle Real Application Clusters Post-Installation Procedures"

This chapter describes the post-installation tasks for RAC.

Part IV: Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment Configuration

Part IV provides Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters environment configuration information.

Chapter 8, " Configuring the Server Parameter File in Oracle Real Application Clusters Environments"

This chapter describes the use of the server parameter file (SPFILE) in Oracle Real Application Clusters.

Chapter 9, "Understanding the Oracle Real Application Clusters Installed Configuration"

This chapter describes the Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters installed configuration.

Part V: Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Reference Information

Part V provides reference information for the installation and configuration of RAC.

Appendix A, "Troubleshooting the Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Process"

This appendix provides RAC installation and configuration troubleshooting information.

Appendix B, " Using Scripts to Create Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases"

This appendix explains how to use scripts in RAC.

Appendix C, "Configuring Raw Devices for Oracle Real Application Clusters"

This appendix explains how to configure shared disk subsystems using raw devices in RAC environments.

Appendix D, " Converting to Oracle Real Application Clusters from Single-Instance Oracle Databases"

This appendix describes how to convert to Oracle Database 10g RAC from single-instance Oracle databases.

Appendix E, " Directory Structure for Oracle Database 10g Oracle Real Application Clusters Environments"

This appendix describes the directory structure for the installed RAC software.

Appendix F, "How to Stop Processes in an Existing Oracle Real Application Clusters Database"

This appendix describes how to shut down processes running in an existing RAC database in preparing to install patch updates or making other changes.

Appendix G, " Managing Oracle Database Port Numbers"

lists the default port numbers and describes how to change the assigned port after installation.

Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

Conventions in Text
Conventions in Code Examples

Conventions in Text

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
Bold	Bold typeface indicates terms that are defined in the text or terms that appear in a glossary, or both.	When you specify this clause, you create an index-organized table.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.	Oracle Database Concepts Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.
`UPPERCASE monospace (fixed-width) font`	Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles.	You can specify this clause only for a `NUMBER` column. You can back up the database by using the `BACKUP` command. Query the `TABLE_NAME` column in the `USER_TABLES` data dictionary view. Use the `DBMS_STATS`.`GENERATE_STATS` procedure.
`lowercase monospace (fixed-width) font`	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	Enter `sqlplus` to start SQL*Plus. The password is specified in the `orapwd` file. Back up the data files and control files in the `/disk1/oracle/dbs` directory. The `department_id`, `department_name`, and `location_id` columns are in the `hr.departments` table. Set the `QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED` initialization parameter to `true.` Connect as `oe` user. The `JRepUtil` class implements these methods.
`lowercase italic monospace (fixed-width) font`	Lowercase italic monospace font represents placeholders or variables.	You can specify the `parallel_clause`. Run `old_release.SQL` where `old_release` refers to the release you installed prior to upgrading.

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
[ ]	Brackets enclose one or more optional items. Do not enter the brackets.	DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])
{ }	Braces enclose two or more items, one of which is required. Do not enter the braces, and do not enter more than one option.	{ENABLE \| DISABLE}
\|	A vertical bar represents a choice of two or more options within brackets or braces. Enter one of the options. Do not enter the vertical bar.	{ENABLE \| DISABLE} [COMPRESS \| NOCOMPRESS]
...	Horizontal ellipsis points indicate either: That we have omitted parts of the code that are not directly related to the example That you can repeat a portion of the code	CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery; SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points indicate that we have omitted several lines of code not directly related to the example.	SQL> SELECT NAME FROM V$DATAFILE; NAME ------------------------------------ /fsl/dbs/tbs_01.dbf /fs1/dbs/tbs_02.dbf . . . /fsl/dbs/tbs_09.dbf 9 rows selected.
Other notation	You must enter symbols other than brackets, braces, vertical bars, and ellipsis points as shown.	acctbal NUMBER(11,2); acct CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;
Italics	Italicized text indicates placeholders or variables for which you must supply particular values.	CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password DB_NAME = database_name
UPPERCASE	Uppercase typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. We show these terms in uppercase in order to distinguish them from terms you define. Unless terms appear in brackets, enter them in the order and with the spelling shown. However, because these terms are not case sensitive, you can enter them in lowercase.	SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES; DROP TABLE hr.employees;
lowercase	Lowercase typeface indicates programmatic elements that you supply. For example, lowercase indicates names of tables, columns, or files. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees; sqlplus hr/hr CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;

Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure

Related Documents

Conventions