Index

A B C D E H I K L M N O P R S T U V

A

Adding OCR locations, 5.5.1

Additional Real Application Clusters documentation, 1.1.3, 1.1.3.3

all node patching, 10.4.1

Automatic Storage Management

file management, 1.3

managing, 4.5.2.1

mirroring, 1.3

rebalancing, 1.3

striping, 1.3

use with Oracle RAC, 1.3

Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

use of, 2.1.1

B

buffer cache, 8.2.3

C

Cache Fusion

definition of, 1.2

mechanism, 8.2.3

Cluster Ready Services Control (CRSCTL)

description of, 1.4

Cluster Verification Utility (CVU)

description of, 1.4

CRS_home

choosing, 2.5.4

D

database

backup, 6.1

comparison of Oracle RAC to single-instance, 1.2

recovery, 6.1

documentation

Real Application Clusters, 1.1.3, 1.1.3.3

E

Enterprise Manager

and Oracle Metalink, 10.1

backup and recovery, 6.1

description of, 1.4

Patch wizard, 10.2

refreshing the patch cache, 10.1.2

errata level, 2.1.3

erratum kernel

H

hardware requirements, 2.2

high availability framework, 5.1

I

initialization parameters

INSTANCE_NUMBER, 4.4.1.2

ROLLBACK_SEGMENTS, 4.4.1.2

SERVICE_NAMES, 4.4.2.4

that must be identical on all instances, 4.4.1.1

that must be unique on all instances, 4.4.1.2

THREAD, 4.4.1.2

UNDO_MANAGEMENT, 4.4.1.2

UNDO_TABLESPACE, 4.4.1.2

INSTANCE_NUMBER initialization parameter, 4.4.1.2

interconnects, 2.1.2

definition of, 1.2

K

kernel parameters

configuring on Linux x86 operating system, 2.4.2

L

Linux x86 operating system

configuring kernel parameters, 2.4.2

M

membership

and the OCR, 2.1.1

memory requirements, 2.2

minimum downtime patching, 10.4.3

N

network adapters, 2.1.2

Network Time Protocol (NTP), 2.4.1

nodes

definition of, 1.2

eviction, 5.2

O

OCR

See Oracle Cluster Registry

OPatch

"Not a valid patch area" error, 10.6.3

partially installed patch, 10.6.4

preparing to use, 10.3

updating the cluster node list, 10.6.1

viewing log and trace files, 10.6.2

Oracle Cluster Registry

definition of mirror, 2.5.2

defintion of, 2.1.1

mirroring the OCR, 5.5.1

multiplexing, 2.1.1

Oracle Clusterware

and process control, 5.1

use of, 5.1

Oracle Flashback, 6.1

Oracle Real Application Clusters

installation on different platforms, 1.1.3.2

overview of administration, 1, 3

Oracle Universal Installer

database installation, 3.1

description of, 1.4

Oracle Real Application Clusters installation, 3.1

ORACLE_BASE, 2.5.3

ORACLE_HOME, 3.1

OUI

See Oracle Universal Installer

P

packages, 2.1.3

parameters

See also initialization parameters, 4.4.1.2

that must be identical on all instances, 4.4.1.1

that must be unique on all instances, 4.4.1.2

patch sets

applying, 10.5

definition of, 10

Patch wizard, 10.2

patches

all node patching method, 10.4.1

applying, 10.4

applying using Enterprise Manager, 10.2

definition of, 10

locating, 10.2

minimum downtime patching, 10.4.3

refreshing the Enterprise Manager patch cache, 10.1.2

rolling patching, 10.4.2

staging, 10.3.3

physical RAM requirements, 2.2

private interconnects

and Oracle Clusterware, 2.1.2

R

RAM requirements, 2.2

raw devices

configuring partitions, 2.5.2

creating partitions, 2.5.2

defintion of, 2.5.1

required types and partition sizes for Oracle Clusterware, 2.5.2

Recovery Manager (RMAN)

channels, 6.5.1

parallelism and backups, 6.5.1

redundancy

normal, 5.1

requirements

hardware, 2.2

ROLLBACK_SEGMENTS initialization parameter, 4.4.1.2

rolling patch method, 10.4.2

S

Server Control (SRVCTL)

description of, 1.4

SERVICE_NAMES initialization parameter, 4.4.2.4

services

available instance, 7.1.1.1

preferred instance, 7.1.1.1

shared storage

supported types, 2.5.1

slices

T

temporary disk space

requirements, 2.2

THREAD initialization parameter, 4.4.1.2

U

UNDO_MANAGEMENT initialization parameter, 4.4.1.2

UNDO_TABLESPACE initialization parameter, 4.4.1.2

user equivalence, 2.2.3, 10.3.5

V

voting disks

definition of, 2.1.1

multiple, 2.1.1