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Oracle 10g RAC on ESXi3 using SLES9 SP5 – Part 9

February 16th, 2009 Comments off

Verify the Oralce Clusterware Installation

With the introduction of Oracle RAC 10g, cluster management is controller by the evmd, ocssd and crsd processes.
Run the ps command on both nodes to make sure that the processes are running.


rac01:/u01/clusterware/cluvfy # ps -ef |grep d.bin
root 4694 1 0 Feb13 ? 00:00:00 /u01/crs1020/bin/crsd.bin reboot
oracle 5242 4692 0 Feb13 ? 00:00:00 /u01/crs1020/bin/evmd.bin
oracle 5344 5326 0 Feb13 ? 00:00:00 /u01/crs1020/bin/ocssd.bin
root 20078 10946 0 09:44 pts/1 00:00:00 grep d.bin

Next you should check the /etc/inittab file, which is processed whenever the runlevel changes:

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Oracle 10g RAC on ESXi3 using SLES9 SP5 – Part 8

February 16th, 2009 3 comments

Oracle Clusterware Installation

Install the xntpd service and configure it.
You can use the Yast management console to do so.
It is extremely important that both nodes are configured to use ntp server and that they are regularly being updated.
If there is any difference at all within the date of all nodes this could result into inoperable cluster.

1. Copy the cpio.gz file to the first node and unzip the contents of the cpio file


#gunzip 10201_clusterware_linux_x86_64.cpio.gz
#cpio -idmv < 10201_clusterware_linux_x86_64.cpio

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