Provisioning Oracle 11g R2 RAC using Enterprise Manager

Provisioning Pack

Kai Yu Oracle Solutions Engineering Lab Dell Inc.

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• Kai Yu, kai_yu@dell.com – 16 years with Oracle Technology: DBA, Apps DBA, Architect – Hands-on experience on IT solution stack: hardware to software – Focus on Oracle RAC, Oracle VM and Oracle EBS – Oracle ACE Director, author and frequent presenter – IOUG Oracle RAC SIG President (2009-2010) – IOUG Virtualization Special Interest Group Board Member – 2011 OAUG Innovator of Year Award Winner – Oracle Blog: http://kyuoracleblog.wordpress.com/

• Dell Oracle Solutions Engineering: www.dell.com/oracle

– Oracle Technology Solutions on Dell systems/storages – Dell | Oracle Solutions Components – Solutions stack: servers, storage, network, OS, Oracle VM,

Oracle RAC, Oracle Applications

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• Oracle Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack • Preparing Provisioning Environment • Provisioning Oracle 11g R2 RAC • Extending Oracle 11g RAC • Recorded Demo • QA

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Agenda

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Provisioning Pack

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• New Challenges for IT Organization

• DBAs work on several projects and production systems • DBAs spend most time on deployment, no time for other tasks. • DBAs needs to response business demand in short order • Need quick deployment of Oracle service at low cost

• Solutions for the new challenges

• Immediate solution: automatically provisioning database services • Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g .Life cycle management of the entire IT stack . Deploy using tested and patched gold images . Oracle Database/ RAC Provisioning and Patching • Oracle Cloud Solution: the private cloud to provide Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), Database as a service . A user requests a database service, . The cloud automatically provisions a database service . Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control manages the cloud

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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.bin Install 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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Prepare EM Provisioning Infrastructure

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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.zip combined 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 binaries load Oracle Database software binaries

Prepare EM Provisioning Infrastructure

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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: . . 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 EM Use 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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Recorded Demo: 1. Oracle VM Server Configuration 2. Enterprise Manager VM for VM management 3. Guest VMs as the RAC nodes: Network Shared storage 11g R2 Grid Infrastructure,. 11g R2 ASM 11g R2 RAC Database and EM agent 4. Enterprise Manager manages 11g R2 RAC running on guest VMs

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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,

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Thank You and QA Visit my Oracle Blog at http://kyuoracleblog.wordpress.com