Oracle Database 10G with RAC and Reliable Datagram Sockets 
by Uday Shetty and Peter Sciarra
November 2009
This Sun BluePrints™ article discusses running Oracle® Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), using Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) on the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS). Oracle RAC is a key component of the Oracle enterprise grid architecture, and the cluster interconnect is a key to maximizing grid performance. Two example configurations are described: one based on UltraSPARC® technology, and one based on x64 processors.
This article addresses the following topics:
- “A Potent Combination of Technologies” provides an overview of Oracle RAC and RDS, the InfiniBand fabric, the Brocade storage area network, and discusses the various Sun hardware and storage platforms used in the example configurations.
- “Software and Hardware Requirements” describes the software and hardware configurations used for these example configurations.
- “Configuring Storage” and “Configuring Servers” describe the steps necessary to install and configure the components of the example configurations.
- Finally, “Validation with Test Systems” describes the testing used to validate the example configurations
Contents
- Introduction
- A Potent Combination of Technologies
- Solaris 10 Operating System
- InfiniBand
- Sun Servers
- Sun StorageTek 6140 Array
- Brocade 5100 SAN Switch
- Cisco SFS 7008 InfiniBand Switch
- Software and Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Hardware Requirements
- Configuring Storage
- Configure Brocade SAN Switch
- Cisco InfiniBand Switch Configuration
- Install and Start the Cisco SFS Element Manager (GUI)
- Configure the Cisco SFS Element Manager
- Configuring Servers
- Install the Solaris 10 OS
- Configure the Solaris 10 OS for Oracle Installation
- Install Oracle Clusterware
- Install Oracle Database 10g
- Install Oracle Patch Sets
- View OCR Disk Information
- View Voting Disk Information
- Manual back up of OCR
- Validation with Test Systems
- Data Collection
- Test Matrix
- Test Scope
- Summary
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Ordering Sun Documents
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
Ramin Moazeni is a Member of Technical Staff in the ISV Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. He has been working with independent software vendors on performance engineering and in porting of their applications onto Sun platforms.
Peter Sciarra is a consulting member of technical staff in the Server Technologies division at Oracle Corporation. With 20 years at Oracle, he is currently active in vendor certification and stress testing across an array of hardware and software technologies.
The authors would like to thank Oracle for its support from configuration and tuning suggestions. In particular, thanks to Daniel Dibbets, Nick DeRose, Gia-Khanh Nguyen, Giri Adari, Prakash Jalan, Sujeet Vasudevan and Uday Shetty. Thanks as well to James Kim for providing additional material on the Sun x64 servers.
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