Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Sridhar Ranganathan and Jeffrey Wright, May 2009

Introduction

This quick start guide shows how to configure the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (2008.Q4) for Oracle RAC infrastructure deployment, using the Solaris 10 OS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) is clustered database infrastructure that offers highly scalable architecture and allows accessing the same database files from a shared storage. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports NFS v3, NFS v4, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols and comes with a comprehensive set of data service features which provides snapshots, clones, and remote replication.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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See also Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g or 11g Release 1 on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3).

Contents

• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Tested Configurations
• 3.0 Configuring a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• • 3.1 Storage Configuration
  • 3.2 Configuring Users and SSH Access
  • • 3.2.1 Configuring Roles and Users
    • 3.2.2 Configuring Public SSH for Password-Less Logins
  • 3.3 Creating a Project
  • 3.4 Creating File Systems for NFS Access
• 4.0 Configuring Oracle Clusterware on a Solaris Client
• • 4.1 Preparing RAC Nodes
  • 4.2 Installing Oracle Clusterware Software
• 5.0 Configuring an Oracle Database Server
• 6.0 Configuring the Oracle 11 g Direct NFS Feature
• • 6.1 Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  • 6.2 Database Server Configuration (to Be Done on All Nodes)
• 7.0 Creating Oracle RAC Infrastructure Using Oracle ASM Over iSCSI LUNs
• • 7.1 Prerequisite
  • 7.2 Creating LUNs on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
  • 7.3 Configuring iSCSI LUNs in Each RAC Node
  • 7.4 Configuring Oracle ASM Instance on RAC Nodes
• 8.0 Using Data Protection Features for Oracle RAC Infrastructure
• 9.0 Glossary

For More Information

Here are additional resources:

• Oracle Technology Network
• Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System web site
• Sun BluePrints papers (registration required)
• Sun download site
• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/, for example, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System Administration (NWS-6425)
• Sun forums such as:
  • Sun forums
  • BigAdmin Discussions collection
• Sun product documentation at http://docs.sun.com, such as:
  • Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System documentation
  • Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System documentation
  • Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System documentation
• Sun Documentation Center
• BigAdmin wiki:
• • Storage Tech Tips page
  • Databases page
• Resources on BigAdmin, such as:
  • Database resource collection (includes community content)
  • Storage resource collection (includes community content)
  • Feature Articles, including more information on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• Support:
  • Sun resources:
    • Register your Sun gear
    • Services
    • SunSolve Online
  • Community system administration experts
• Events of interest to users of Sun products:
  • Worldwide Developer Events and Sun Tech Days
  • Current Events