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Overview of the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In

This page explains general information about how to use Sun™ N1™ Service Provisioning System (N1 SPS) to provision Oracle 10g R2 RAC software on a Sun Cluster configuration. This page includes the following information:

• Purpose of the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In
• What the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In Includes
• Requirements for the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In
• Information About the Oracle Database Software

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Purpose of the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In

The Oracle 10g R2 RAC plug-in software enables you to install the supporting software structure and create Oracle RAC databases in this environment. The plug-in simplifies and increases the reliability of the process of deploying Oracle 10g R2 RAC database software throughout your enterprise. It is packaged in a Java™ Archive (JAR) file that loads into an N1 SPS environment.

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What the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In Includes

The plug-in enables you to perform the following main functions:

• Create the Oracle user that is needed to own the Oracle software.
• Install the Sun Cluster software components that are needed to support the Oracle RAC environment.
• Install the Oracle UNIX Distributed Lock Manager (UDLM) package.
• Create the Sun Cluster framework resource groups and resources that are needed to support Oracle RAC.
• Install the shared QFS file system software.
• Create shared QFS file systems.
• Install the Oracle Clusterware (or CRS) software.
• Install the Oracle RAC software (Enterprise or Standard Edition).
• Create an Oracle Automated Storage Management (ASM) database.
• Create Oracle RAC databases on either shared QFS, raw disk, or with Oracle ASM.

The plug-in can also expand and contract deployments off all the components that it deploys, such as _{Sun Cluster} resource groups, shared QFS file systems, Oracle CRS and RAC software installations, and ASM and user databases. It also has the capability to "attach" to existing installations that have been deployed with or without using an N1 SPS plug-in. Components achieve this by having the equivalent of an N1 SPS "markOnly" installation step capability built into their "default" installation blocks. The limitations of this capability are described in the individual component plan sections of this guide.

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Requirements for the Oracle 10g R2 RAC Plug-In

The following software and configuration is required to use the Oracle 10g R2 RAC plug-in:

• A licensed copy of the Oracle 10g R2 10.2.0.1 database software
• An N1 SPS master server
• Access to the Oracle 10g R2 Clusterware and RAC version 10.2.0.1.x media
• Access to the Sun Cluster 3.1 08/05 or Sun Cluster 3.2 software by using the Java Availability Suite media
• (Optional) Access to the Sun StorageTek ™ QFS version 4.5 media
• A supported configuration on which to run the Oracle database software

The plug-in supports Oracle RAC software on the following software configurations:

• Oracle 10g R2 database on Solaris™ 9 OS for SPARC™ based platforms with Sun Cluster 3.1 08/05 software
• Oracle 10g R2 database on Solaris 10 OS for SPARC or x86 based platforms with Sun Cluster 3.1 08/05, 3.2, or 3.2 11/07 software

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Information About the Oracle Database Software

The use of this plug-in presumes that you are familiar with the Oracle Database software. For more information about this product, see the following Oracle information:

• General Information about Oracle Database (http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/index.htm)
• Documentation for Oracle Database 10g (http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/database10g.html)