Saturday, February 21, 2009

Installing 10G R2 binaries in Oracle RAC environment.

Once you have successfully installed CRS, The Oracle 10gR2 binary installation is relatively easy.
1) DBA sets the ORACLE_HOME for the RDBMS binary and the verify the environment variables.
$> . oarenv
$> env grep -i oracle
2) Execute "runInstaller" from the staging area and select the custom installation.


3) Specify the Oracle_home details and hit next
4) specify cluster installation and check all nodes on the cluster.

5) Specify the required components for installation.

6) Make sure that the prerequisite checks have no errors.

7) Provide the "dba" group name.

8) Select "Install software only "(I prefer to build the database later).

9) Review the summary screen and hit continue.
10) execute "root.sh" on both nodes from the location displayed on the GUI.

$rootsh=/path/to/root.sh

The following environment variables are set as:
ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
ORACLE_HOME= /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0

Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]: ..

Entries will be added to the /var/opt/oracle/oratab file as needed by
Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
Finished running generic part of root.sh script.
Now product-specific root actions will be performed.
11) Hit O.K. and exit the GUI.

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