Dell 6850 Installation Guide

Deployment Guide: Oracle on Microso Windows and the Dell PowerEdge 6850 ServerBy: Bryan Thomas and Larry PedigoPerformance Tuning Corporaon

Recommendaons for Oracle Component PlacementOracle is sensive to read performance and sensive to write performance on the redo log les and on the

Another technique is available to address memory above 4 GB. The Address Windowing Extensions interface (AWE) allows access to RAM up to 64 GB. AWE is

But in general, please take into consideraon that memory requirements per instance are reduced when the same user populaon is distributed over mulp

Reliability, Availability and Serviceability FeaturesThe Dell PowerEdge 6850 server is designed from top to boom for High Availability. There are a n

The Dell PowerEdge 6850 server is capable of running in several dierent modes, due to the EM64T processor. There two major modes: IA32e mode and Lega

Installing and Conguring the Dell | EMC SAN or PowerVault Shared Disk ArrayInstalling and conguring a Dell | EMC SAN is a discipline unto itself. It

For a two-node cluster, you may directly aach to a CXx00 storage array with ber cables rather than using a switch. This requires at least two HBAs a

Oracle10g and ASMAll of the recommendaons listed above apply to Oracle9i or Oracle10g ulizing the Oracle Cluster File System. However, if the Automa

It is even more important to properly congure the private network. The private network is used as an interconnect between each cluster node. This net

If you choose to ulize Intel NICs for teaming, perform the following conguraon steps: 1. Install Intel PROSet II (if necessary) 2. Start Intel PR

IntroduconMigrang tradional Oracle databases to Oracle Real Applicaon Clusters has become an emerging trend in the IT eld. The reasons are clear:

To congure shared disks, do the following: 1. On the rst node only, log in to windows as the Local Administrator. 2. Navigate to Start -> Admin

To congure shared disks, do the following: 1. On the rst node only, log in to windows as the Local Administrator. 2. Navigate to Start -> Admin

Shared Disk ConguraonOn windows 2003 (32 and 64 bit versions), the user must enable the automac mounngof new volumes on each node in the cluster.

Note: As of October 2004, the 9.2.0.6 patchset is available for Windows. However, the 9.2.0.6 clusterware patch is not yet available as of this public

Note: As of October 2004, the 9.2.0.6 patchset is available for Windows. However, the 9.2.0.6 clusterware patch is not yet available as of this public

Run the 9.2.0.5 Cluster Setup WizardYou are now ready to run the rst step in the install process. Since this step does not use the Oracle Universal I

The Cluster Wizard will create only one OCFS drive for data les. If you would like to create addional OCFS drives from the logical parons you crea

Installing Oracle10g Cluster Ready ServicesIn Oracle10g, the Clusterware has been placed on a separate CD which installs Cluster Ready Services. You m

3. In the “Language Selecon Page”, select the language or languages for your CRS installaon. Click “Next”. 4. In the “Cluster Conguraon Page”,

Cluster Ready Services are now installed, and you are ready to install Oracle10g soware.Install Oracle Database SowareWhether you are installing Ora

Of course, any soluon with this much cung-edge technology is going to have a fair amount of inherent complexity. This can be discouraging to someone

11. Soware installaon may take an hour or more. To successfully complete the soware installaon, perform the following addional steps:

11. Soware installaon may take an hour or more. To successfully complete the soware installaon, perform the following addional steps:

Oracle 9.2.0.5 Patch Installaon StepsTo install the Oracle 9.2.0.5 patchset, re-launch the OUI: 1. Open a command prompt window. 2. Navigate to the

4. Patch the OLM les by copying all of the following les from the E:\oracle_stage\ocfs9205\3575688\Disk1\preinstall_rac\olm directory to both of

Installing Oracle10g Database SowareWhile installing Oracle10g database soware, you have the opon of creang a Starter Database. In this example, c

Conguring the Oracle ListenerBefore creang a database, it is necessary to rst create the Listener service for Oracle Net. To create a database in C

Under Oracle9i RAC, several issues have been noted with DBCA. If you follow the instrucons below, you should nish database cre-aon without any prob

11. In the “Creaon Opons” page, choose at least the “Create Database” opon. You may also choose the “Create Template” and “Save as a Script” op

6. In the “Database Idencaon” page, enter a “Global Database Name” and an “Oracle System Idener (SID) Prex”. The Global Database Name is usu

15. In the “Database Storage Window”, tablespace names, le names and sizing parameters may be edited, along with redo log informaon. Edit the 

Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) – .NET data provider designed exclusively by and for Oracle for opmal data access from .NET to Oracle 9i Data

Post-Installaon TasksThere are some post-installaon tasks that are common to Oracle9i and Oracle10g installaons. These tasks are covered below. Fir

SummaryMany companies are currently interested in deploying Oracle Real Applicaon Clusters on the Microso Windows Server plaorm. Microso Windows S

References“Conguring Disks in Windows 2000”; Oracle MetaLink Note 109711.1; Oracle Corporaon, November, 2002;hp://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsq

“Oracle9i Database Plaorm Guide, Release 2 (9.2) for Windows”, Part No. B10163-01; Primary Author: Craig B. Foch; Contribung Author: Mark Kennedy an

However, preparing the Windows OS for Oracle involves more than simply popping the CD in and clicking through a few menus. One of the key problems is

The order that the server’s NIC cards (and IP addresses) are dened to Windows is important. Windows must recognize the public IP address as the rst

Dell Minimum Hardware List and System RequirementsOracle provides some general guidelines for minimum hardware and soware requirements. These include

Cluster Hardware Consideraons for Oracle RACThis secon covers some of the issues that you should consider when choosing hardware for your Oracle RAC

RAID 5RAID 5 uses parity for fault tolerance. The advantage of using parity is that instead of having to double the number of disk drives in the syste