Oracle 10gR2 RAC Installation in RedHat 5 Linux Using VMware. Important points to install 10gR2 oracle RAC in linux5.

1.LINUX 5(Redhat 5) doesn't have /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file. so we have to configure it. 2. Edit the /etc/redhat-release version to redhat-4 and and to invoke the runInstaller use the command $runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs. //this will bypass the os check // 3. Next during clusterware installation at the end of root.sh in node 2 end with error message.So we have adjust the parameters in vipca and srvctl files. 4. vipca will fail to run. so we have to adjust some parameters and configure it manually. rest of things are similar like RAC 11gR1 installation in linux5 using VMware. please refer the documentation installing oracle 11gR1 RAC in LINUX5 using vmware. if you have any doubts in my installation steps. 11gR1RACInstallationOnOEL5UsingVMwareServer2 10gR2 RAC Installation in RHEL4 using VMware step step step step step step step step 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: vmware installation guest 0S (LINUX 5) INSTALLATION. pre installation steps for installing clusterware. Install Vmware tools creating shared storage. clone virtual machine. Installing clusterware. Installing oracle software.

Step 1.for vmware installation refer below link to install. vmware_server_installation Step 2.Guest Operating system installation: Redhat 5 Linux .

note: create tmp and swap with enough space. Continue through the OEL 5 installation as you would for a normal server. A general pictorial guide to the installation can be found here . More specifically, it should be a server installation with a minimum of 2G swap, firewall and SELinux disabled and the following package groups installed:

GNOME Desktop Environment Editors Graphical Internet Text-based Internet Development Libraries Development Tools Server Configuration Tools Administration Tools Base System Tools X Window System

To be consistent with the rest of the article, the following information should be set during the installation:

hostname: rac1.localdomain IP Address eth0: 192.168.1.121 (public address) Default Gateway eth0: 192.168.1.102 IP Address eth1: 192.168.2.131 (private address) Default Gateway eth1: none

You are free to change the IP addresses to suit your network, but remember to stay consistent with those adjustments throughout the rest of the article.

Once the basic installation is complete, install the following packages whilst logged in as the root user.
# From Enterprise Linux 5 Disk 1 cd /media/cdrom/Server rpm -Uvh binutils-2.* rpm -Uvh elfutils-libelf-0.* rpm -Uvh glibc-2.* rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.* rpm -Uvh libaio-0.* rpm -Uvh libgcc-4.* rpm -Uvh libstdc++-4.* rpm -Uvh make-3.* cd / eject # From Enterprise Linux 5 Disk 2 cd /media/cdrom/Server rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33* rpm -Uvh elfutils-libelf-devel-* rpm -Uvh glibc-headers* rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2.* rpm -Uvh libgomp* rpm -Uvh gcc-4.* rpm -Uvh gcc-c++-4.* rpm -Uvh libaio-devel-0.* rpm -Uvh libstdc++-devel-4.* rpm -Uvh unixODBC-2.* rpm -Uvh unixODBC-devel-2.* cd / eject # From Enterprise Linux 5 Disk 3 cd /media/cdrom/Server rpm -Uvh sysstat-7.* cd / eject

if you have any doubts in installing 10g in linux please refer below link: 10g installation in linux5 3. Pre Installation steps for installing clusterware and oracle software. Oracle Installation Prerequisites Perform the following steps whilst logged into the RAC1 virtual machine as the root user. The /etc/hosts file must contain the following information. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost # Public 192.168.1.121 rac1.localdomain rac1 192.168.1.122 rac2.localdomain rac2 #Private 192.168.2.131 rac1-priv.localdomain rac1-priv 192.168.2.132 rac2-priv.localdomain rac2-priv #Virtual 192.168.1.111 rac1-vip.localdomain rac1-vip 192.168.1.112 rac2-vip.localdomain rac2-vip

Add the following lines to the /etc/sysctl.conf file. kernel.shmmni = 4096 # semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default=4194304 net.core.rmem_max=4194304 net.core.wmem_default=262144 net.core.wmem_max=262144 Run the following command to change the current kernel parameters. /sbin/sysctl -p Add the following lines to the /etc/security/limits.conf file. oracle oracle oracle oracle soft nproc 2047 hard nproc 16384 soft nofile 1024 hard nofile 65536

Add the following lines to the /etc/pam.d/login file, if it does not already exist. session required pam_limits.so

Disable secure linux by editing the /etc/selinux/config file, making sure the SELINUX flag is set as follows. SELINUX=disabled Create the new groups and users. groupadd groupadd groupadd groupadd oinstall dba oper asmadmin

useradd -u 500 -g oinstall -G dba,oper,asmadmin oracle passwd oracle Create the directories in which the Oracle software will be installed. mkdir -p /u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2..0/crs mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01 Edit the /etc/redhat-release file replacing the current release information (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5) with the

following:

redhat-4
eg: [root@rac1 ~]# vi /etc/redhat-release redhat-4 Login as the oracle user and add the following lines at the end of the .bash_profile file. # Oracle Settings TMP=/tmp; export TMP TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR ORACLE_HOSTNAME=rac1.localdomain; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib: $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then ulimit -p 16384 ulimit -n 65536 else ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 fi fi The packages listed in this section (or later versions) are required for Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2 and Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 running on the Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 platform. 32-bit (x86) Installations * * * * * * * * * * * binutils-2.17.50.0.6-2.el5 compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 elfutils-libelf-0.125-3.el5 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125 gcc-4.1.1-52 gcc-c++-4.1.1-52 glibc-2.5-12 glibc-common-2.5-12 glibc-devel-2.5-12 glibc-headers-2.5-12

* * * * * * * * * * *

libaio-0.3.106 libaio-devel-0.3.106 libgcc-4.1.1-52 libstdc++-4.1.1 libstdc++-devel-4.1.1-52.e15 libXp-1.0.0-8 make-3.81-1.1 openmotif-2.2.3 sysstat-7.0.0 unixODBC-2.2.11 unixODBC-devel-2.2.11

Step 4: Installing VMware tools Login as the root user on the RAC1 virtual machine, then select the "Install VMware Tools" as shown in below picture.

Once the package is loaded, the CD should unmount automatically. You must then run the "vmware-config-tools.pl" script as the root user. # vmware-config-tools.pl Accept all the default settings and pick the screen resolution of your choice. Ignore any warnings or errors. The VMware client tools are now installed. Reboot the server before proceeding. After the reboot, it is possible the monitor will not be recognised. If this is the case don't panic. Follow the instructions provided on the screen and reconfigure the monitor setting, which will allow the XServer to function correctly. Shut down the RAC1 virtual machine using the following command.
# shutdown -h now

Step 5: CREATE SHARED STORAGE DISKS creating a shared storage disks ocr votingdisk asm1 asm2 asm3 here is a steps to create a ocr disk of size 1GB. follow the same steps to create voting disk and asm disks.

select add hardware button and then select HARD DISK.

Click browse button to select the shared storage disk.

create a folder shared for storage storage and select shared and type ocr.

select allocate all disk button.

its very important to select Independent persistent

select virtual device mode scsi1

select optimize for performance

and then click finish after than you can see the new added hard disk with size 1 gb and its properties. Repeat the previous hard disk creation steps 4 more times, using the following values:

File Name: votingdisk Virtual Device Node: SCSI 1:1 Mode: Independent and Persistent File Name: asm1 Virtual Device Node: SCSI 1:2 Mode: Independent and Persistent File Name: asm2 Virtual Device Node: SCSI 1:3 Mode: Independent and Persistent File Name: asm3 Virtual Device Node: SCSI 1:4 Mode: Independent and Persistent

At the end of this process, the virtual machine should look something like the picture below.

Edit the contents of the "/u01/VM/RAC1/RAC1.vmx" file using a text editor, making sure the following entries are present. Some of the tries will already be present, some will not.
disk.locking = "FALSE" diskLib.dataCacheMaxSize = "0" diskLib.dataCacheMaxReadAheadSize = "0" diskLib.dataCacheMinReadAheadSize = "0" diskLib.dataCachePageSize = "4096" diskLib.maxUnsyncedWrites = "0" scsi1.present = "TRUE" scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic" scsi1.sharedBus = "VIRTUAL" scsi1:0.present = "TRUE" scsi1:0.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:0.fileName = "/u01/VM/shared/ocr.vmdk"

scsi1:0.deviceType = "plainDisk" scsi1:0.redo = "" scsi1:1.present = "TRUE" scsi1:1.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:1.fileName = "/u01/VM/shared/votingdisk.vmdk" scsi1:1.deviceType = "plainDisk" scsi1:1.redo = "" scsi1:2.present = "TRUE" scsi1:2.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:2.fileName = "/u01/VM/shared/asm1.vmdk" scsi1:2.deviceType = "plainDisk" scsi1:2.redo = "" scsi1:3.present = "TRUE" scsi1:3.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:3.fileName = "/u01/VM/shared/asm2.vmdk" scsi1:3.deviceType = "plainDisk" scsi1:3.redo = "" scsi1:4.present = "TRUE" scsi1:4.mode = "independent-persistent" scsi1:4.fileName = "/u01/VM/shared/asm3.vmdk" scsi1:4.deviceType = "plainDisk" scsi1:4.redo = ""

Start the RAC1 virtual machine by clicking the "Power on this virtual machine" button on the VMware Server Console. When the server has started, log in as the root user so you can partition the disks. The current disks can be seen by issueing the following commands.
# cd /dev # ls sd* sda sda1 sda2 sdb sdc sdd sde sdf #

Use the "fdisk" command to partition the disks sdb to sdf. The following output shows the expected fdisk output for the sdb disk.
# fdisk /dev/sdb Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1

First cylinder (1-1305, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305): Using default value 1305 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot /dev/sdb1 Start End Blocks Id System 1 1305 10482381 83 Linux

Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. #

In each case, the sequence of answers is "n", "p", "1", "Return", "Return", "p" and "w". Once all the disks are partitioned, the results can be seen by repeating the previous "ls" command.
# cd /dev # ls sd* sda sda1 sda2 sdb sdb1 sdc sdc1 sdd sdd1 sde sde1 sdf sdf1 #

/etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file is not available in the Linux 5 OS. SO we have to create a below file. [root@rac1 ~]# vi /etc/udev/rules.d/63-oracleraw.rules ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sdb1", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw1 %N" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sdc1", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw2 %N" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sdd1", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw3 %N" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sde1", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw4 %N" ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sdf1", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw5 %N" KERNEL=="raw[1]*", OWNER="root", GROUP="oinstall", MODE="640" KERNEL=="raw[2-5]*", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="oinstall", MODE="644" [root@rac1 ~]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor

17 [root@rac1 ~]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 8, minor 33 [root@rac1 ~]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw3 /dev/sdd1 /dev/raw/raw3: bound to major 8, minor 49 [root@rac1 ~]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw4 /dev/sde1 /dev/raw/raw4: bound to major 8, minor 65 [root@rac1 ~]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw5 /dev/sdf1 /dev/raw/raw5: bound to major 8, minor 81 [root@rac1 ~]# chown root:oinstall /dev/raw/raw1 [root@rac1 ~]# chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw2 [root@rac1 ~]# chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw3 [root@rac1 ~]# chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw4 [root@rac1 ~]# chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw5 [root@rac1 ~]# chmod 640 /dev/raw/raw1 [root@rac1 ~]# chmod 640 /dev/raw/raw2 [root@rac1 ~]# chmod 640 /dev/raw/raw3 [root@rac1 ~]# chmod 640 /dev/raw/raw4 [root@rac1 ~]# chmod 640 /dev/raw/raw5 Step 6: CLONE THE VIRTUAL MACHINE The current version of VMware Server does not include an option to clone a virtual machine, but the following steps illustrate how this can be achieved manually. Shut down the RAC1 virtual machine using the following command.
# shutdown -h now

Copy the RAC1 virtual machine using the following command.

# cp -R RAC1 RAC2

Edit the contents of the "/u01/VM/RAC2/RAC1.vmx" file, making the following

change.
displayName = "RAC2"

And then follow the steps as below:

Edit the hostname to rac2.localdomain #vi /etc/sysconfig/network and #hostname rac2.localdomain #vi /etc/hosts check the public,private and virtuals ips are correctly configured. Start the RAC1 virtual machine and restart the RAC2 virtual machine. When both nodes have started, check they can both ping all the public and private IP addresses using the following commands. login as oracle user
ping ping ping ping -c -c -c -c 3 3 3 3 rac1 rac1-priv rac2 rac2-priv

Configure SSH on each node in the cluster. Log in as the "oracle" user and perform the following tasks on each node.
su - oracle mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t rsa # Accept the default settings.

The RSA public key is written to the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file and the private key to the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file. Log in as the "oracle" user on RAC1, generate an "authorized_keys" file on RAC1 and copy it to RAC2 using the following commands.
su - oracle cd ~/.ssh

cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys scp authorized_keys rac2:/home/oracle/.ssh/

Next, log in as the "oracle" user on RAC2 and perform the following commands.
su - oracle cd ~/.ssh cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys scp authorized_keys rac1:/home/oracle/.ssh/

The "authorized_keys" file on both servers now contains the public keys generated on all RAC nodes. To enable SSH user equivalency on the cluster member nodes issue the following commands on each node.
ssh rac1 date ssh rac2 date ssh rac1.localdomain date ssh rac2.localdomain date exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent $SHELL /usr/bin/ssh-add

You should now be able to SSH and SCP between servers without entering passwords. Before installing the clusterware, check the prerequisites have been met using the "runcluvfy.sh" utility in the clusterware root directory. while running this you will get unsuccessful message no need to worry about this. ignore this only for vmware setup testing and education purpose, testing time no need to worry.
/home/oracle/clusterware/cluvfy/runcluvfy.sh stage -pre crsinst -n rac1,rac2 -verbose

Step 7: Installing Clusterware Software

Install the Clusterware Software

Start the RAC1 and RAC2 virtual machines, login to RAC1 as the oracle user and start the Oracle installer. $cd clusterware To install 10gR2, you must first install the base release, which is 10.2.0.1. As these version of OS are newer, you should use the following command to invoke the installer: $ runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs // This will bypass the OS check // note: Edit the /etc/redhat-release file replacing the current release information (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 ) with the following:
redhat-4

./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs

change the clusterware directory

if you didn't edit the redhat-release file,you will get error here, and it checks for required rpm packages.

add the rac2 host information

change eth0 to public

NEXT ,the ocr disk information, actually i forgot to take the snapshot select external redundancy and ocr disk location: /dev/raw/raw1 For voting disk select external redundancy and voting disk location:/dev/raw/raw2

first run /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/oraInstRoot.sh in RAC1 after completion run it in RAC2 Second run /u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/root.sh in RAC1 after completion run it in RAC2 while running root.sh in RAC2 NODE it ends with warning message. so

follow the below steps

[root@rac1 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
Changing permissions of /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory to 770. Changing groupname of /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory to oinstall. The execution of the script is complete

[root@rac2 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh

Changing permissions of /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory to 770. Changing groupname of /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory to oinstall. The execution of the script is complete

[root@rac1 ~]# /u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/root.sh

WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured /etc/oracle does not exist. Creating it now. Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory Setting up NS directories Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root assigning default hostname rac1 for node 1. assigning default hostname rac2 for node 2. Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys. Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897. node : node 1: rac1 rac1-priv rac1 node 2: rac2 rac2-priv rac2 Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'.. Operation successful. Now formatting voting device: /dev/raw/raw2 Format of 1 voting devices complete. Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds. Adding daemons to inittab Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds. CSS is active on these nodes. rac1 CSS is inactive on these nodes. rac2 Local node checking complete. Run root.sh on remaining nodes to start CRS daemons.

[root@rac2 ~]# /u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/root.sh

WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured /etc/oracle does not exist. Creating it now. Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory Setting up NS directories Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle/product' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs/oracle' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01/crs' is not owned by root WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 3 detected. clscfg: version 3 is 10G Release 2. assigning default hostname rac1 for node 1. assigning default hostname rac2 for node 2. Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys. Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897. node : node 1: rac1 rac1-priv rac1 node 2: rac2 rac2-priv rac2 clscfg: Arguments check out successfully. NO KEYS WERE WRITTEN. Supply -force parameter to override. -force is destructive and will destroy any previous cluster configuration. Oracle Cluster Registry for cluster has already been initialized Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds. Adding daemons to inittab Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.

CSS is active on these nodes. rac1 rac2 CSS is active on all nodes. Waiting for the Oracle CRSD and EVMD to start Oracle CRS stack installed and running under init(1M)

Running vipca(silent) for configuring nodeapps /u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/jdk/jre//bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

At end of root.sh on the last node vipca will fail to run with the following error: Oracle CRS stack installed and running under init(1M) Running vipca(silent) for configuring nodeapps /home/oracle/crs/oracle/product/10/crs/jdk/jre//bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Also, srvctl will show similar output if workaround below is not implemented. edit vipca (in the CRS bin directory on all nodes) to undo the setting of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. After the IF statement around line 123 add an unset command to ensure LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is not set as follows: if [ "$arch" = "i686" -o "$arch" = "ia64" -o "$arch" = "x86_64" ] then LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL fi unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL <<<== Line to be added

Similarly for srvctl (in both the CRS and, when installed, RDBMS and ASM bin directories on all nodes), unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL by adding one line, around line 168 should look like this: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL <<<== Line to be added

Remember to re-edit these files on all nodes: /bin/vipca /bin/srvctl /bin/srvctl /bin/srvctl after successful editing of files vipca and srvctl files in bin folder of CRS_HOME directory. run ./vipca to configure virtual ip manually you will get this error. vipca will fail to run with the following error if the VIP IP's are in a non-routable range [10.x.x.x, 172.(16-31).x.x or 192.168.x.x]: # vipca Error 0(Native: listNetInterfaces:[3])

[Error 0(Native: listNetInterfaces:[3])] (vipca failing on non-routable VIP IP ranges, manually or during root.sh), if you still have the OUI window open, click OK and it will create the "oifcfg" information, then cluvfy will fail due to vipca not completed successfully, skip below in this note and run vipca manually then return to the installer and cluvfy will succeed. Otherwise you may configure the interfaces for RAC manually using the oifcfg command as root, like in the following example (from any node):

click ok button.

it wills gives the error. follow the steps. dont click next button. login as root user in node RAC2, /bin # ./oifcfg setif -global eth0/192.168.1.122:public
/bin # ./oifcfg setif -global eth1/192.168.2.132:cluster_interconnect

/bin # ./oifcfg getif The goal is to get the output of "oifcfg getif" to include both public and cluster_interconnect interfaces, of course you should exchange your own IP addresses and interface name from your environment. To get the proper IPs in your environment run this command: /bin # ./oifcfg iflist
[root@rac2 bin]# ./oifcfg setif -global eth0/192.168.1.122:public [root@rac2 bin]# ./oifcfg setif -global eth1/192.168.2.132:cluster_interconnect [root@rac2 bin]# ./oifcfg getif eth0 192.168.1.0 global public eth0 192.168.1.122 global public eth1 192.168.2.0 global cluster_interconnect eth1 192.168.2.132 global cluster_interconnect [root@rac2 bin]# ./oifcfg iflist eth0 192.168.1.0 eth1 192.168.2.0 [root@rac2 bin]#

And then run vipca. /bin # ./vipca

click next

click next

enter rac1-vip.localdomain

click the retry button

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl check crs CSS appears healthy CRS appears healthy EVM appears healthy [root@rac1 bin]# ./crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------

ora.rac1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE rac1 ora.rac1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE rac1 ora.rac1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE rac1 ora.rac2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE rac2 ora.rac2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE rac2 ora.rac2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE rac2 [root@rac1 bin]# [root@rac2 bin]# ./crsctl check crs CSS appears healthy CRS appears healthy EVM appears healthy [root@rac2 bin]# ./crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host -----------------------------------------------------------ora.rac1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE ora.rac1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE ora.rac1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE ora.rac2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE ora.rac2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE ora.rac2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE [root@rac2 bin]#

rac1 rac1 rac1 rac2 rac2 rac2

step 8: Installing oracle software follow the same steps given in the below link. except invoking runInstaller.
Start the RAC1 and RAC2 virtual machines, login to RAC1 as the oracle user and start the Oracle installer. To install 10gR2, you must first install the base release, which is 10.2.0.1. As these version of OS are newer, you should use the following command to invoke the installer: $ runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs // This will bypass the OS check // ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs

On the "Welcome" screen, click the "Next" button. rest of the things are similar in the given link documentation installing database software and create asm for any queries please contact me any time.
Regards, Rajeshkumar Govindarajan Oracle DBA ConscientiaDBS grk.oracle@gmail.com

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