Automated Provisioning Oracle 11g R2 RAC using ... Provisioning Oracle 11g R2 RAC using Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack Kai Yu, Sr. System Engineer/Architect Dell Oracle Solutions

Automated Provisioning Oracle 11g R2

RAC using Enterprise Manager

Provisioning Pack

Kai Yu, Sr. System Engineer/Architect Dell Oracle Solutions Engineering

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• Kai Yu, Senior System Engineer, Dell Oracle Solutions Lab 16 years Oracle DBA and Solutions Engineering Specialized in Oracle RAC, OVM and Oracle EBS Oracle ACE Director, Oracle papers author/presenter IOUG Oracle RAC SIG President (2009-2010)

About Author

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• Introduction to Oracle Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack• Preparing Enterprise Manager Provisioning Environment • Provisioning Oracle 11g R2 RAC using Oracle Enterprise Manager• Extending Oracle 11g RAC using Oracle Enterprise Manager• QA

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack

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• New Challenges for IT Organization

• DBAs needs to response business demand in short order

• Quick deployment of Oracle service at low cost

• Deploy using tested and patched gold images

• Solutions for the new challenges

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

Life cycle management of the entire IT stack

Oracle Database/ RAC Provisioning and Patching

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• Automated provisioning, patching, lifecycle management• Gold images based & reference based deployment


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• Software Library and its Software Images Components a repository that stores software images for future deployments Save the current configuration as software as gold image Load the images from software CDs as a gold image Use the gold image to deploy the software

• RAC deployment methods


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• Provisioning Deployment Procedure hierarchal sequence of all steps to complete provisioning tasks Grid control comes with out of box default procedures Use Grid Control to define/schedule a deployment Procedure

• RAC Provisioning Deployment Procedures Deploy 10gR2/11R1 clusterware/RAC by EM 10gR2 Deploy 11g R2 GI and RAC by EM 11gR1


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• Install EM Grid Control 11gR1, MOS #1059516.1 Prerequisites: Install OEL 5

install JDK : ./jdk-6u18-linux-x64-rpm.binInstall required rpms

11gR2 database Weblogic server 10.2.0.3 with Patch WDJ7, MOS#1063112.1

java -jar wls1032_generic.jar to install for WLS on 64bit platforms

Use smart update utility to apply patch WDJ7./bsu.sh -prod_dir=/opt/oracle/product/middleware/wlserver_10.3 -

patchlist=WDJ7 -verbose -install -patch_download_dir=/home/oracle/wls/WDJ7

Prepare EM Provisioning Infrastructure

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Install EM Grid Control 11gR1./runInstaller


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• Configured Software library

Load the Oracle 11g R2 RAC shipped software to the software library

download 11g R2 Grid Infrastructure: linux.x64_11gR2_grid.zip, 11g R2 RAC: linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip

linux.x64_11gR2_database_2of2.zipcombined two RAC zips to linux.x64_11gR2_database_2.zip


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Load the shipped software to the software library: In Grid Control, click Deployments, then Provisioning, to 11.2.0.1.0:

load Oracle Grid Infrastructure software binariesload Oracle Database software binaries


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Provision 11gR2 RAC with EM• Pre-Requisite for RAC Provisioning

.Configure host running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5U5, Ensure 30 GB /tmp

. Add required rpms and Oracle users for RAC installation. Prepare shared Devices : 5 shared devices for OCR and votingdisk

1 devices for RAC database. Created ASM disks for the devices:

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. Configure network: scan IPs, virtual IP, private IP and public IP

. Install EM agent on the host: use Agent install from EM:

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RAC nodes are listed on host tab

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– Meet Prerequisites of 11g R2 RAC – Provision Oracle RAC 11g R2 Grid infrastructure

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• Click schedule deployment, specify software images and installation locations

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• Specify the credentials and cluster information

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• Specify the RAC database configuration parameters

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Start the provisioning procedure and check the status

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The provisioning procedure completed successfully.

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Extend Oracle 11g RAC using EM MANAGER

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• Prepare a new node.

• Schedule the provisioning procedure to extend the RAC

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• Click schedule deployment, specify the following parameters: Select which RAC database to extend

Use the existing RAC node as the reference host Specify the new node information

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Provision Oracle 11g R2 RAC using EMUse the existing RAC node as the reference host:

Specify the new node information

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• Click schedule deployment, specify the following parameters: Finish the RAC extension.

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Summary

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• Use Grid Control 11g to manage the virtual environment• Use Grid Control 11g Provisioning pack to provision 11g R2 • Extend the RAC to additional node• Dell Oracle Whitepapers: www.dell.com/oracle

• Efficient Deployment of Oracle RAC in a Virtualized Environment Using Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack

• Building an Oracle® Grid with Oracle VM on Dell™ Blade Servers and Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI Storage,

http://i.dell.com/sites/content/shared-content/solutions/en/Documents/oracle-clusters-deployed-in-virtual-env-wp.pdf




http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/OracleGrid_leveraging_OVM.pdf?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz





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Thank You and QAVisit Kai Yu’s Oracle Blog at http://kyuoracleblog.wordpress.com/

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