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Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials

You're reading from   Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials Design, implement, and support complex Oracle 11g RAC environments for real world deployments

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849682664
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. High Availability FREE CHAPTER 2. Oracle 11g RAC Architecture 3. Clusterware Installation 4. Automatic Storage Management 5. Managing and Troubleshooting Oracle 11g Clusterware 6. RAC Database Administration and Workload Management 7. Backup and Recovery 8. Performance Tuning 9. Oracle 11g Clusterware Upgrade 10. Real-world Scenarios 11. Enabling RAC for EBS 12. Maximum Availability Additional Resources and Tools for the Oracle RAC Professional Index

Preparing for a cluster installation


Preparing a server with the mandatory requirements of software and hardware is the key factor for any successful cluster installation. Therefore, in the following sections, we are going to explain in detail, the essential recommendations that are needed when building a server; such as hardware, software, network, storage, software groups, and users. Before you begin the actual installation process, ensure that you have prepared the servers with all the mandatory requirements that are going to be part of the cluster installation.

Server (node) requirements

During the course of the server preparations, you must ensure that each server that is going to be associated with a cluster meets the following minimum hardware-level resources and space requirements:

  • A minimum of 2 GB RAM is required for the complete Grid Infrastructure and RAC software installation.

  • A minimum of 1 GB free space is required in the /tmp directory.

  • A minimum of 10 GB free space for the entire...

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