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 sections:

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 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: Pre-Installation Procedures for Oracle Clusterware and Real Application Clusters

Part II describes the pre-installation and storage preparation procedures for installing Oracle Clusterware and RAC on Microsoft Windows.

Chapter 2, "Server and Network Pre-Installation Tasks"

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

Chapter 3, "Storage Pre-Installation Tasks"

This chapter describes the storage options available for the files required by Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Database software with RAC, and a RAC database and describes how to configure the desired storage.

Part III: Installing Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters

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

Chapter 4, "Installing Oracle Clusterware on Windows-Based Systems"

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Clusterware for Microsoft Windows.

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

This chapter describes how to install Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters on Microsoft Windows.

Chapter 6, "Creating RAC Databases with the Database Configuration Assistant"

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

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

This chapter describes the post-installation tasks for RAC.

Part IV: Real Application Clusters Environment Configuration

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

Chapter 8, " Parameter Management for Real Application Clusters Databases"

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 Reference Information

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

Appendix A, "Troubleshooting the Installation Process"

This appendix provides RAC installation and configuration troubleshooting information.

Appendix B, " Using Scripts to Create 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 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 RAC 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.

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 for Windows Operating Systems

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 datafiles 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;

Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

The following table describes conventions for Windows operating systems and provides examples of their use.

Convention	Meaning	Example
Click (or select) Start	Click a button, or select an option from a menu, or both, to start a program.	To start the Database Configuration Assistant, click Start, select Programs, select Oracle_Homename, select Configuration, select Migration Tools, then Database Configuration Assistant.
File and directory names	File and directory names are not case sensitive. The following special characters are not allowed: left angle bracket (<), right angle bracket (>), colon (:), double quotation marks ("), slash (/), pipe (\|), and dash (-). The special character backslash (\) is treated as an element separator, even when it appears in quotes. If the file name begins with \\, then Windows assumes it uses the Universal Naming Convention.	c:\winnt"\"system32 is the same as C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32
`C:\>`	Represents the Windows command prompt of the current hard disk drive. The escape character in a command prompt is the caret (^). Your prompt reflects the subdirectory in which you are working. Referred to as the command prompt in this manual.	C:\oracle\oradata>
Special characters	The backslash (\) special character is sometimes required as an escape character for the double quotation mark (") special character at the Windows command prompt. Parentheses and the single quotation mark (') do not require an escape character. Refer to your Windows operating system documentation for more information on escape and special characters.	C:\>exp scott/tiger TABLES=emp QUERY=\"WHERE job='SALESMAN' and sal<1600\" C:\>imp SYSTEM/password FROMUSER=scott TABLES=(emp, dept)
HOME_NAME	Represents the Oracle home name. The home name can be up to 16 alphanumeric characters. The only special character allowed in the home name is the underscore.	C:\> net start OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener
`ORACLE_HOME` and `ORACLE_BASE`	In releases prior to Oracle8i release 8.1.3, when you installed Oracle components, all subdirectories were located under a top level `ORACLE_HOME` directory that by default used one of the following names: `C:\orant` for Windows NT `C:\orawin98` for Windows 98 This release complies with Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines. All subdirectories are not under a top level `ORACLE_HOME` directory. There is a top level directory called `ORACLE_BASE` that by default is `C:\oracle`. If you install the latest Oracle release on a computer with no other Oracle software installed, then the default setting for the first Oracle home directory is `C:\oracle\orann`, where `nn` is the latest release number. The Oracle home directory is located directly under `ORACLE_BASE`. All directory path examples in this guide follow OFA conventions. Refer to Oracle Database Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit) for additional information about OFA compliances and for information about installing Oracle products in non-OFA compliant directories.	Go to the `ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\rdbms\admin` directory.

Preface

Intended Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Structure

Related Documents

Conventions