Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.3.1 Administrator's Guide - Linux
- Section I. SF Oracle RAC concepts and administration
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- About Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- How SF Oracle RAC works (high-level perspective)
- Component products and processes of SF Oracle RAC
- Periodic health evaluation of SF Oracle RAC clusters
- About Virtual Business Services
- About Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager
- About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
- Administering SF Oracle RAC and its components
- Administering SF Oracle RAC
- Setting the environment variables for SF Oracle RAC
- Starting or stopping SF Oracle RAC on each node
- Applying Oracle patches on SF Oracle RAC nodes
- Migrating Pluggable Databases (PDB) between Container Databases (CDB)
- Installing Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, or ODM patches on SF Oracle RAC nodes
- Applying operating system updates on SF Oracle RAC nodes
- Adding storage to an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Recovering from storage failure
- Backing up and restoring Oracle database using Veritas NetBackup
- Enhancing the performance of SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Administering SmartIO
- Creating snapshots for offhost processing
- Managing database storage efficiently using SmartTier
- Optimizing database storage using Thin Provisioning and SmartMove
- Scheduling periodic health checks for your SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Using environment variables to start and stop VCSMM modules
- Verifying the nodes in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Administering VCS
- About managing VCS modules
- Viewing available Veritas device drivers
- Starting and stopping VCS
- Environment variables to start and stop VCS modules
- Adding and removing LLT links
- Configuring aggregated interfaces under LLT
- Displaying the cluster details and LLT version for LLT links
- Configuring destination-based load balancing for LLT
- Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring for agents manually
- Administering the AMF kernel driver
- Administering I/O fencing
- About administering I/O fencing
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- General guidelines for using the vxfentsthdw utility
- About the vxfentsthdw command options
- Testing the coordinator disk group using the -c option of vxfentsthdw
- Performing non-destructive testing on the disks using the -r option
- Testing the shared disks using the vxfentsthdw -m option
- Testing the shared disks listed in a file using the vxfentsthdw -f option
- Testing all the disks in a disk group using the vxfentsthdw -g option
- Testing a disk with existing keys
- About the vxfenadm utility
- About the vxfenclearpre utility
- About the vxfenswap utility
- Enabling or disabling the preferred fencing policy
- About I/O fencing log files
- Migrating from disk-based fencing to server-based fencing using the installer
- Migrating from server-based fencing to disk-based fencing using the installer
- Administering the CP server
- Administering CFS
- Administering CVM
- Listing all the CVM shared disks
- Establishing CVM cluster membership manually
- Changing the CVM master manually
- Importing a shared disk group manually
- Deporting a shared disk group manually
- Starting shared volumes manually
- Verifying if CVM is running in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Verifying CVM membership state
- Verifying the state of CVM shared disk groups
- Verifying the activation mode
- Administering Flexible Storage Sharing
- About Flexible Storage Sharing disk support
- About the volume layout for Flexible Storage Sharing disk groups
- Setting the host prefix
- Exporting a disk for Flexible Storage Sharing
- Setting the Flexible Storage Sharing attribute on a disk group
- Using the host disk class and allocating storage
- Administering mirrored volumes using vxassist
- Displaying exported disks and network shared disk groups
- Tuning LLT for memory and performance in FSS environments
- Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data
- Administering SF Oracle RAC global clusters
- Administering SF Oracle RAC
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- Section II. Performance and troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- About troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- Restarting the installer after a failed network connection
- Installer cannot create UUID for the cluster
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC pre-installation check failures
- Troubleshooting LLT health check warning messages
- Troubleshooting I/O fencing
- SCSI reservation errors during bootup
- The vxfentsthdw utility fails when SCSI TEST UNIT READY command fails
- Node is unable to join cluster while another node is being ejected
- System panics to prevent potential data corruption
- Cluster ID on the I/O fencing key of coordinator disk does not match the local cluster's ID
- Fencing startup reports preexisting split-brain
- Registered keys are lost on the coordinator disks
- Replacing defective disks when the cluster is offline
- Troubleshooting I/O fencing health check warning messages
- Troubleshooting CP server
- Troubleshooting server-based fencing on the SF Oracle RAC cluster nodes
- Issues during online migration of coordination points
- Troubleshooting Cluster Volume Manager in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Restoring communication between host and disks after cable disconnection
- Shared disk group cannot be imported in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Error importing shared disk groups in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Unable to start CVM in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- CVM group is not online after adding a node to the SF Oracle RAC cluster
- CVMVolDg not online even though CVMCluster is online in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Shared disks not visible in SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Troubleshooting CFS
- Troubleshooting interconnects
- Troubleshooting Oracle
- Error when starting an Oracle instance in SF Oracle RAC
- Clearing Oracle group faults
- Oracle log files show shutdown called even when not shutdown manually
- DBCA fails while creating an Oracle RAC database
- Oracle's clusterware processes fail to start
- Oracle Clusterware fails after restart
- Troubleshooting the Virtual IP (VIP) configuration in an SF Oracle RAC cluster
- Troubleshooting Oracle Clusterware health check warning messages in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Troubleshooting ODM in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Troubleshooting Flex ASM in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Prevention and recovery strategies
- Tunable parameters
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- Section III. Reference
Benefits of SF Oracle RAC
SF Oracle RAC provides the following benefits:
Support for file system-based management. SF Oracle RAC provides a generic clustered file system technology for storing and managing Oracle data files as well as other application data.
Support for different storage configurations:
Shared storage
Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS): Sharing of Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and internal disks over network
Faster performance and reduced costs per I/O per second (IOPS) using SmartIO. SmartIO supports read caching for the VxFS file systems that are mounted on VxVM volumes, in several caching modes and configurations. SmartIO also supports block-level read caching for applications running on VxVM volumes.
For Oracle 11gR2 and 12cR1, use Cluster File System and Cluster Volume Manager for placement of Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and voting disks. These technologies provide robust shared block interfaces for placement of OCR and voting disks. In the absence of SF Oracle RAC, separate LUNs need to be configured for OCR and voting disks.
For Oracle 12cR2, you must store the OCR and voting files on Oracle ASM disk groups. You must create the Oracle ASM disks group on the raw CVM volumes during Oracle Grid installation.
Support for a standardized approach toward application and database management. Administrators can apply their expertise of technologies toward administering SF Oracle RAC.
Increased availability and performance using Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP). DMP provides wide storage array support for protection from failures and performance bottlenecks in the Host Bus Adapters (HBA), Storage Area Network (SAN) switches, and storage arrays.
Easy administration and monitoring of multiple SF Oracle RAC clusters using Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager.
VCS OEM plug-in provides a way to monitor SF Oracle RAC resources from the OEM console.
For more information, see the Veritas InfoScale Storage and Availability Management for Oracle Databases guide.
Improved file system access times using Oracle Disk Manager (ODM).
Ability to configure Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) disk groups over CVM volumes to take advantage of Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP).
Enhanced scalability and availability with access to multiple Oracle RAC instances per database in a cluster.
Support for backup and recovery solutions using volume-level and file system-level snapshot technologies, Storage Checkpoints, and Database Storage Checkpoints.
For more information, see the Veritas InfoScale Storage and Availability Management for Oracle Databases guide.
Support for space optimization using periodic deduplication in a file system to eliminate duplicate data without any continuous cost.
For more information, see the Storage Foundation Administrator's documentation.
Ability to fail over applications with minimum downtime using Cluster Server (VCS) and Veritas Cluster File System (CFS).
Prevention of data corruption in split-brain scenarios with robust SCSI-3 Persistent Group Reservation (PGR) based I/O fencing or Coordination Point Server-based I/O fencing. The preferred fencing feature also enables you to specify how the fencing driver determines the surviving subcluster.
Support for sharing application data, in addition to Oracle database files, across nodes.
Support for policy-managed databases in Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 and later versions.
Support for container and pluggable databases in Oracle RAC 12c and later versions.
Fast disaster recovery with minimal downtime and interruption to users. Users can transition from a local high availability site to a wide-area disaster recovery environment with primary and secondary sites. If a site fails, clients that are attached to the failed site can reconnect to a surviving site and resume access to the shared database.
Verification of disaster recovery configuration using fire drill technology without affecting production systems.
Support for a wide range of hardware replication technologies as well as block-level replication using VVR.
Support for campus clusters with the following capabilities:
Consistent detach with Site Awareness
Site aware reads with VxVM mirroring
Monitoring of Oracle resources
Protection against split-brain scenarios