racIns.htm
05-05-2002 Bikle
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9i RAC Install on Solaris

This page describes some (not all) details associated with a 9i RAC
Install on a pair of Solaris nodes.

I started my efforts to setup this demo by becoming familiar with documentation
put out by Sun, Veritas, and Oracle:
RAC9iDOCS.htm

Next (with some help), I setup the hardware.

An ASCII diagram associated with the hardware is linked below:

hardwareDiagram.htm

I relied on some outside help to configure the StorEdge 6910.  They configured it by pulling
some documents from sun.com:
http://docs.sun.com/?q=6910

Once I got all the hardware wired together and powered up, I installed "Solaris 8 02/02".
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/packagelist/s8u7PkgList/p1.html

Next, I installed what I call the "SAN pkgs"
SANpkgs.htm

Then, I installed Sun Cluster 3.0 update 3
sunCluster3.htm

Next, I installed Veritas Volume Manager 3.2
veritas32.htm

Then, I installed Oracle 9.2 RAC
oracle92rac.htm

Much of the information in the above links was culled from text I
gathered from my interactions with a shell prompt.  I tried to organize
it a little and add some instructive comments along with some urls which
the reader might find useful.

I captured most of my activity in an emacs-shell-buffer which was then
written to a file.  That file is linked below:
bigScreenDump.txt

The above page is not very user friendly; it's just a huge blob of text
with a minimal amount of context.  Also I should point out that the
emacs-shell-buffer has an annoying little bug (or feature?).  All
typed shell commands are listed twice.  This might actually be good;
it makes it possible for the reader to distinguish what was typed at
the keyboard and what was simply displayed on the screen.

Sometimes I find the above page useful when I'm looking for a shell
command or some configuration information.  I load the above page in
my browser and search for text.  Just today I searched through the
above link for the shell command which tells me if the node I'm
logged into is the cluster master or cluster slave.