Installing Oracle Database 10g on Windows Using Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Automated

Storage Management (ASM)

Purpose

'This module describes how to install Oracle Database 10g on a Windows two-node cluster, using Real Application
Clusters (RAC) and Automated Storage Management (ASM). The example in this lesson uses Oracle Database 10g
Standard Edition, however the installation process is similar to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition.

Topics

This chapter discusses the following topics:

Overview
Prerequisites
Configure Disk System
Install Cluster Ready Services
Stamp the Logical Drives for ASM
Install Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters
Verify Valid Path Name Exists on Both Nodes
Review your Installation in Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control

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Overview

The installation has two phases. In the first phase, you install and configure the Cluster Ready Services (CRS) software.
In the second phase, you install the Oracle Database with RAC software.

Prerequisites

In order to make sure that the installation is successful, you need to check the following requirements:

Software
Web Browser
Hardware
Disk Space
 Network

Software

The software requirements for Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g are:

Requirement Value
System 32-bit
Architecture
Operating System Windows 2000 with service pack 1 or higher or Windows Server 2003
Network Protocol TCP/IP

To check that the requirements above have been met, perform the following steps:

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. Double click System.
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You notice that the operating system requirements have been met.
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Note: In order to perform the installation, you need the CDROMs for Oracle Cluster Services and Oracle Database 10g.

Web Browser

The following Web browsers are supported for iSQL*Plus and Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control:

Netscape Navigator 4.78, 4.79, 7.01, or 7.1.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 with service pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with serviced pack 2

To check that the requirements above have been met, perform the following steps:

Open your browser and select Help > About <your browser>.
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 You notice that a supported web browser version has been installed.
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Hardware

To ensure that both nodes in the cluster meet the minimum requirements to install Oracle Database 10g Real Application
Clusters, perform the following steps:

Check the physical RAM size is at least 512 MB. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel.
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Double click System.

You notice that the memory requirements have been met.

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 Confirm the size of the configured swap space is at least twice the physical RAM size which
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in this case is 2MB. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. Double click System, then
click the Advanced tab.

Click Performance Options.

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 Notice that the Virtual Memory is set to 2GB. Click Change.
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Notice that the Maximum size is set to 4GB or twice the physical RAM size. Click OK 3
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 times.

Disk Space

To support your Real Application Clusters database, your database files must be stored on disks that are shared by both
nodes in your cluster. Any shared disks supported by your hardware vendor, other than Network Attached Storage
(NAS), can be used. The shared disks must be attached to both nodes in your cluster and both nodes must be able to read
and write to them. For performance and availability reasons, you should use at least two shared disks for your database
files.

The requirements for Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g installation and database creation are:

Requirement Free Space Needed Location

Ancillary Oracle 100 MB on both nodes Any local system drive
files
Temporary Space 50 MB on both nodes Any local system drive
Cluster Ready 500 MB on both nodes Any local system drive but must be
Services software the same named drive on both
nodes
Database software 1 GB on both nodes Any local system drive but must be
the same named drive on both
nodes
Database files 7 GB Shared disks

To confirm you have the required amount of free disk space available, perform the following steps:

Open My Computer and right-click on the drive you are verifying and click Properties.
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You notice that the disk space requirements have been met.
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Network

The two nodes in the cluster must be able to communicate with each other and with external clients using the TCP/IP
protocol. Communication between clients and the nodes in the cluster is across the public network. Both nodes need a
network adapter configured for the public network.

To enable availability and failover, a virtual IP (VIP) address is also required for each of your nodes. A VIP address can
be moved between nodes in case of a failure. CRS manages the VIP addresses for you.

To support a virtual IP address, both nodes required an unused IP address that is compatible with the public network's
subnet and netmask. The virtual IP address and host name should also be registered in the domain name system (DNS).

For communications between the instances running on the two nodes, a private network is required. This private network
connects only the nodes in the cluster and cannot be accessed from outside the cluster. Both nodes need a separate
network adapter configured for this private network.

Public vs. Private Network

Both nodes must meet the following public and private network requirements:

1. Support for two network adapters

Public network interface used for client connections

Private network interfaces used for communication between database instances

2. Support of interface name restrictions

Names are case sensitive

Names must not contain any multibyte language characters
Public and private network interface names must be different from each other
Name for each interface must be the same on both nodes
Public and private IP addresses must be on different subnets

3. An IP address and host name registered in the domain name system (DNS) for the public network interface

4. A private IP address and optionally, a private host name, for each private network interface.

Note: Oracle recommends that you use private network IP addresses for these interfaces, for example: 10.*.*.* or
192.168.*.*. You can use %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on both nodes to associate private host names
with private IP addresses.

Host Name Type IP Address Registered In

iwinrca01.us.oracle.com Public 139.185.150.201 DNS
iwinrca02.us.oracle.com Public 139.185.150.202 DNS
viprca01.us.oracle.com Virtual 139.185.150.54 DNS
viprca02.us.oracle.com Virtual 139.185.150.55 DNS
iwinrca01-node Private 10.10.10.2 Hosts file
iwinrca02-node Private 10.10.10.3 Hosts file

To configure or determine the IP addresses associated with your cluster nodes, perform the following steps:

Determine the IP addresses and names for your two public and two virtual IP addresses. On
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the first node, click Start > Run. Enter cmd and press enter.

Enter ipconfig and press enter.

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 From this window, you can see the public and private network interface names, the public
and virtual IP addresses and the private IP address for node one.

Switch to your other node and perform steps 1 & 2 again. You see the public and private
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network interface names, the public and virtual IP addresses and the private IP address for
node two. Make sure that the interface names match that on node one.

Confirm that the private IP addresses are listed in the

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%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

Confirm that the two nodes can actually communicate. On both nodes, execute ping using
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the IP address or alias name for the other node's private IP address and public IP address.
Repeat this process on the other node.
Configure Disk System

To configure the disk system, you need to perform the following tasks:

Disable Write Caching

Prepare Disks for Cluster Ready Services
Prepare Disks for Data Storage

Disable Write Caching

To disable write caching, perform the following steps:

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
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> Device Manager > Disk Drives. Right-click on the first Disk drive and select Properties.
 Select the Disk Properties tab and uncheck Write cache enabled. Then click OK.
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 Repeat the previous step for all Disk Drives.
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Prepare Disks for Cluster Ready Services

Cluster Ready Services (CRS) provides overall management of the cluster activities. CRS requires the following key files
be located in logical drives on shared disks:

Oracle Cluster Registry

Voting Disk

From one of the existing nodes of the cluster, perform the following steps:

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer
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Management. Expand Storage and select Disk Management.
 Right-click in the free space area on Disk1 and select Create Logical Drive.
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 The Create Partition Wizard appears. Click Next.
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 The partition type you want to create is Logical Drive. Click Next.
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 Enter 100MB for the size for the first logical partition. This is the size that you want for the
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Oracle Cluster Registry logical drive. Click Next.
 Choose the option Do not assign a drive letter or drive path and click Next.
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 Choose the option Do not format this partition and click Next.
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 Review your selections and click Finish.
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 The logical drive was created. Repeat the previous steps to create a second logical drive of 20
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MB for the Voting disk
 Check the two nodes in the cluster to make sure the partitions are visible on both and none of
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the Oracle partitions have drive letters assigned.

Prepare Disks for Database Storage

You need to configure disk storage for use with Automatic Storage Management (ASM). ASM storage consists of one or
more disk groups, each of which spans multiple disks. To prepare the shared disks you identified in the Disk Space
prerequisite, you need to create two or more logical drives, each on a different shared disk, for a total of at least 7 GB. To
prepare each logical drive, perform the following steps:

In this example, only one Disk is available so two additional logical drives were created on
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Disk1. All of the partitions you create for your ASM disk groups must be at least 7 GB, be of
equal size and include as much of the free space on the disk as possible. Repeat the steps you
performed in the previous section to create the two logical drives.
 Note: the amount of disk space to be used is in megabytes so you need to enter the amount
accordingly.

Install Cluster Ready Services

To install the Cluster Ready Services, perform the following steps:

Run setup.exe from the Oracle Cluster Ready Services CD-ROM.

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When the Welcome page appears, click Next.

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 At the Specify File Locations page, enter the name of your Oracle Home and directory where
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you want the files placed. Make sure you enter a location on the drive that contains the free
space that you identified previously. Then click Next.
 Note: If this is your first Oracle Installation, you will receive the Specify Inventory directory
page which provides the location where Oracle will store its inventory of installed products.
Accept the default and click Next.

Accept the default of English on the Language Selection page and click Next.
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 On the Cluster Configuration page, enter a Cluster Name, and your public and private node
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name for both nodes. Then click Next. Note: you may need to click next more than once to
go to the next page.
 On the Specify Network Interface Usage page, the Universal Installer displays a list of
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cluster-wide interfaces. Select Public for the first Local Area Connection interface and
Private for the Local Area Connection 2 interface and click Next.
 On the Select Disk Formatting Options page, choose the options Do not format any logical
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drives and click Next.
 On the Disk Configuration - Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) page, choose the partition's disk
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number to hold the OCR (100 MB) and click Next.
 On the Disk Configuration - Voting Disk page, choose the partition's disk number to hold the
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voting disk (20 MB) and click Next.
 Review the list of products that will be installed and click Install.
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 The progress window appears.
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 The Configuration Assistants page appears.
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 After the configuration tools complete their processing, the End of Installation page appears.
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Click Exit then Yes to terminate the Universal Installer.
Stamp the Logical Drives for ASM

To enable disk discovery during the database install, the logical drives used to store your database files must be stamped
with an ASM header using asmtoolg. All disk names created by the tool begin with the prefix ORCLDISK for
identification purposes. To stamp the logical drives for ASM, perform the following steps:

Run <CRS_home>\BIN\asmtoolg.exe.
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 Accept the default to Add or change label and click Next.
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 On the Stamp Disks page, select a disk to stamp and optionally modify the prefix. Then click
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Next.
 Click Next.
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 Click Finish.
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 Repeat the steps above for the second logical disk. Note: Alternatively, you could have
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selected both disks the first time through.

Install Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters

To install the Oracle Database 10g with RAC, perform the following steps:

Run setup.exe from the Oracle Database 10g CD-ROM.

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 When the Welcome page appears, click Next.
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 At the Specify File Locations page, enter the name of your Oracle Home and directory where
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you want the files placed. The Name and Path in the Destination section should be different
than what you specified when you installed the Cluster Ready Services. Make sure you enter
a location on the drive that contains the free space that you identified previously. Then click
Next.
 On the Specify Hardware Cluster Installation Mode page, the Cluster Installation mode is
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selected by default. In addition, the local node, from which you are running the Universal
Installer, is always selected. Select the additional node that is to be part of this installation
session and click Next.
 Note: if the Universal Installer detects a network problem on any node that you have
included in this installation, then a warning is displayed. To resolve problems, examine the
installation log file: \Program
Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\installActions<date_time>.log

On the Select Installation Type page, select the Standard Edition option and click Next.
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 On the Select Database Configuration page, accept the default options to create a General
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Purpose starter database and click Next.
 On the Specify Database Configuration Options page, you can change the default names for
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your database and character set. Check the Create database with sample schemas option
and click Next.
 On the Select Database Management Option page, accept the default option and click Next.
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 On the Specify Database File Storage Option page, select Automatic Storage Management
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(ASM) and click Next.
 Note: the other options are only supported by the Enterprise Edition.

On the Specify Backup and Recovery Options page, select Enable Automated Backups.
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Automatic Storage Management is selected by default. In the Backup Job Credentials
section, enter the name and password of your current windows session user. Then click Next.
 On the Configure Automatic Storage Management page, check the column for each disk that
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you prepared for your ASM disk groups. The Universal Installer lists only the partitions for
logical drives located on disks that have been stamped with asmtoolg. Then click Next.
 On the Specify Database Schema Passwords page, enter and confirm passwords for all of the
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privileges database accounts and click Next.
 On the Summary page, review the list of software components that will be installed. Then
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click Install.
 The progress window appears.
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 When the installation completes, the Welcome page for the Virtual IP Configuration
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Assistant. Click Next.
 On the Network Interfaces page, select the network interface card (NIC) to which you want
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to assign your VIP address. Then click Next. Note: Make sure your public NIC is selected for
this purpose. If you select your private NIC, your cluster will not function correctly.
 On the Virtual IPs for Cluster Nodes page, enter the virtual IP (VIP) addresses you identified
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in the Network prerequisites section and click Next.
 On the Summary page, review your entries and click Finish.
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 A Configuration Assistant Progress Dialog page appears.
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 When the configuration completes, click OK.
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The Configuration Results window appears. Review the results, then scroll down to the
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 bottom of the page and click Exit.

After you exit from the VIPCA, the Net Configuration Assistant and Database Configuration
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Assistant will run.
 The Database Configuration Assistant progress window appears.
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 When the Database creation is complete, click OK.
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 The cluster database instances on both nodes are being started.
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The installation was successful. Click Exit then Yes to terminate the Universal Installer.
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Verify Valid Path Name Exists on Both Nodes

To verify the path names on both nodes, perform the following steps:

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables.
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Select the Path variable. Make sure that the value is set to <Oracle Home>\bin. If the
variable does not contain the value, then add the value to the start of the path variable
definition.

Repeat the previous step for your other node.

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Review your Installation in Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control

To review the results of your installation, perform the following steps:

Open a browser and enter the following URL:

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http://<hostname>.<domain>:5500/em
 Enter sys/oracle as SYSDBA and click Login.

You see that your cluster database is up with 2 instances. In the General section, click the
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link next to Cluster.
 The Cluster Database is up. Scroll down to see the list of hosts.
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 You have just completed the creation of a two-node RAC database in which both nodes have
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an Oracle Instance, an Oracle Net Services listener, and the Oracle Enterprise Manager
components for Database Control.