CHAPTER 6Oracle RAC Setup/Configuration

In this chapter, we will drill down into the intricacies of installing, upgrading, and configuring 11.2 Oracle RAC. This includes the best practices for setting up the environment, such as configuring Oracle Homes, setting up the file system, and installing patches. We’ll install Oracle RAC, and areas of interest or concern will be highlighted.

Oracle RAC/RDBMS Install Options

As discussed in Chapter 4, Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduced a change in the relationship between Oracle Clusterware, Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and the RDBMS. In previous versions of Oracle Database, ASM used the same home as the RDBMS home or a separate home that was still considered an RDBMS home because it ...

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