Linux Installation

Step: 1) Goto New and create a virtual Machine with the following details -> Next.

Step: 2) Now add RAM size for the Virtual Machine (Min: 1.5GB or 1536MB) -> Next.

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Step: 3) Select Create a Virtual hard drive now -> Create.

Step: 4) Select VDI (Virtual Box DiskImage) -> Next.

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Step: 5) Select Dynamically allocated -> Next

Step: 6) Give the location of the Virtual Drive to be located and (20.00 GB size) -> Create

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Step: 7) Goto Storage

Step: 8) Goto Controller: IDE (Empty), Click on Browse on right and select the Linux Image file.

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Step: 9) Goto Network in Adapter 1 select Internal Network give Name: pubnet (Public Network)

Step: 10) In Adapter 2 enable Network Adapter and select Internal Network and give Name: privnet
(Private Network).

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Step: 11) Goto Adapter 3 Enable Network Adapter and select Bridge Network and select Name: present
network using for getting Internet to HOST System -> OK.

Step: 12) Goto Shared Folder and Browse the folder where all the softwares are available , Check AutoMount -> OK

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Step: 13) Click on OK.

Step: 14) Start the Virtual Machine and press ENTER on 1st option.

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Step: 15) The booting files are loading -> Please Wait

Step: 16) Goto to SKIP. (Mandatory)

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Step: 17) Click on Next

Step: 18) Default language selection English -> NEXT

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Step: 19) Default Keyboard selection U.S English -> Next

Step: 20) Select Basic Storage Devices -> Next

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Step: 21) Click on Yes, discard any data -> Next

Step: 22) Write the fully-fledged hostname -> Next

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Step: 23) Select timezone (Asia/Kolkata).

Step: 24) Password for Root user (oracle) -> Next.

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Step: 25) Select Use All Space and check on Review and modify partitioning layout -> Next.

Step: 26) Give the SWAP SIZE double the size of RAM size given in the beginning -> Next.

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Step: 27) Click on Format.

Step: 28) Click on Write changes to disk.

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Step: 29) Click on Next.

Step: 30) Select Database Server and select Customize Now -> Next

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Step: 31) Goto Desktops and select all options.

Step: 32) Goto Applications and select 1st three options -> Next

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Step: 33) The Installation process started -> Please wait.

Step: 34) The Installation process continued -> Please Wait.

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Step: 35) Click on Close -> Power off the machine -> OK.

Step: 36) Goto Settings

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Step: 37) Goto Storage and click on Controller:SATA -> Add Hard Drive -> Create new disk

Step: 38) Select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) -> Next.

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Step: 39) Give the location of the Virtual Drive to be located with different name and (24.00 GB size) ->
Create

Step: 40) Start the Virtual Machine and the booting will be like this.

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Step: 41) After the booting is completed on the Welcome screen click Forward.

Step: 42) Select Yes, I agree to the License Agreement -> Forward

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Step: 43) Select No, I prefer to register at a later time -> Forward -> No thanks, Ill connect later

Step: 44) Click Forward

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Step: 45) Click on Forward by leaving the USER Creation blank.

Step: 46) The time will be automatically and click Forward

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Step: 47) Uncheck Enable kdump? Click Finish

Step: 48) Check on Don not show me this again -> Close

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Step: 49) Goto System -> Preference -> Network Connections

Step: 50) Select System eth0 -> Edit and check Connect automatically.

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Step: 51) Goto IPv4 Settings tab and select Manual then click on Add and enter the appropriate IP
Address with subnet mask which ever HOST machine is getting via LAN/WiFi
(192.168.1.20/255.255.255.0)

Step: 52) Goto IPv6 Settings and select Ignore -> Apply

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Step: 53) Now goto System eth1 and click on edit and check Connect automatically.

Step: 54) Goto IPv4 Settings tab and select Manual then click on Add and enter the appropriate IP
Address with subnet mask (192.168.20.1/255.255.255.0)

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Step: 55) Goto IPv6 Settings and select Ignore -> Apply

Step: 56) Now goto System eth2 and click on edit and check Connect automatically.

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Step: 57) Goto IPv4 Settings tab and select Automatic (DHCP).

Step: 58) Goto IPv6 Settings and select Ignore -> Apply

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Step: 59) Click on Close.

Step: 60) Right click on desktop and select Open Terminal.

Guest Additional Box Drivers Installation

Step: 61) Try to ping in order to check the internet is working (ping yahoo.com)

Step: 62) Goto Devices and Select Insert Guest Additions CD Image.

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Step: 63) Click on RUN

Step: 64) Here we can see that Building the main Guest Additions module FAILED.
For that we will do some updates and installations using yum command

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Step: 65) Try to update the present packages (yum update).

Step: 66) The list of packages will be displayed and it will ask for permission to continue
Y/N. Type Y to continue updating.

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Step: 67) After completing the updated packages it will ask permission for installation/ transaction
Y/N. Type Y in order to install the updated packages

Step: 68) After full updating process completed try to install kernel package
(yum install kernel-uek-devel), it will ask permission to download Y/N. Type Y

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Step: 69) After installing the kernel package try to reboot..

Step: 70) Now try to install Guest Additions CD Image again. This time the installation will be
success

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Step: 71) Goto System and select Firewall

Step: 72) Click on Disable and Apply and close the window

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Step: 73) Goto /dev directory (#cd /dev) and list all the drives added to this node (# ls sd*) you will
find sdb is blank. So Partition sdb drive (# fdisk sdb). Here hitting the before command just try to
give m for help, it will display all the commands from that give n for New Partition, p for Primary
Partition, 1 for only 1 partition, leave the default values just press ENTER, now give p printing the
tables and w for writing those tables on the disk

Step: 74) Now just list the disks by giving (# ls /dev/sd*). Here we can see that sdb1 (partition) is
created. Now formatting that partition just give (# mke2fs j /dev/sdb1), and add entry in fstab file.
(# vi /etc/fstab)

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Step: 75) Now add the entry as follows. 1st column (the partitioned drive), 2nd column (mount point),
3rd column (file type of the drive), 4th column (mode), 5th column (default values)

Step: 76) Create a directory as given in fstab file (# mkdir /u01), and issue the command (mount a),
the drive will automatically mounted, and try to give (df h) to see all the mounted drives.

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Step: 77) Adding the VOTING Disks, Goto, to Settings -> Storage -> Controller:SATA -> Add HardDisk
-> Create new Disk

Step: 78) Select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) -> Next

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Step: 79) Select Fixed Size -> Next

Step: 80) Give the appropriate location and give the size as 1GB, and create as same three disks with
1GB of size

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Step: 81) The disks must look like this..

Step: 82) To convert the three VOTING DISKS to Shareable, Goto File -> Virtual Media Manager

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Step: 83) The Virtual Media Manager and the three VOTING DISKS.

Step: 84) Select 1st Voting Disk -> Modify

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Step: 85) Select Shareable -> OK.

Step: 86) Try to do other 2 VOTING DISKS. And it should look like this on the main page..

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Step: 87) In Node 2 goto Settings -> Storage -> Choose existing disk

Step: 88) In Node 2 also it should like this.

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Step: 89) Now list the newly added disks (# ls /dev/sd*), and try to partition those three
disks with fdisk command (fdisk /dev/sdc -> n -> p -> 1-> Enter key -> Enter key -> p -> w.
Similarly for other two disks (sdd, sde)

Step: 90) After making partitions for three disks we should see like the below at last..

Environment for RAC

Step: 91) Install preinstall packages using yum (yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall).

Step: 91) Try to grant permissions to complete preinstall packages successfully.

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Step: 93) Give the ip-address and hostnames in hosts file (# vi /etc/hosts) in both nodes. And
comment the 2nd line.

Step: 94) Create directories for GRID_HOME & ORACLE_HOME and change permissions and
ownership to the parent dorectory.
(# mkdir p /u01/app/11.2.0/grid) | (# mkdir p /u01/app/oracle/11.2.0/product/db_1)
(chown R oracle:oinstall /u01) | (# chmod R 0755 /u01)

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Step: 95) Try to download and install OracleASM Libs which you can download from
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/linux/asmlib/rhel6-1940776.html

Step: 96) In Node 1 initialize oracleasm by giving (# oracleasm init), and configure to oracle user and
oinstall group, so that from next time they will initialize after booting.
(# oracleasm configure -i) | (oracle -> oinstall -> y -> y)

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Step: 97) After oracleasm configuration is completed now try to create the (three VOTING DISKS) to
ASM DISKS (/dev/sdc1 | /dev/sdd1 | dev/sde1)

Step: 98) In Node 2 try the same thing Install OracleAsm Libs and configure oracleasm to oracle user
and oinstall group, then just try to scan and list the disks which have been created in Node 1.
(# oracleasm scandisks) | (# oracleasm listdisks)

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Step: 99) Give a password to Oracle user in both the nodes. (# passwd oracle) | (default password is
oracle).

Step: 100) Try to connect to self and other nodes with the help of ssh.

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Step: 101) Try to generate keygen of ssh using the following command (# ssh-keygen t rsa -> Enter
key -> Enter key -> Enter key), go to .ssh directory in oracle home and change the of id_rsa.pub to
authorized_keys (Node 1), same check connectivity in Node 2 and generate keygen and change the
name of id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys2 (Node 2), and copy the authorized_keys file from Node 1
to Node 2 using the command (scp /.ssh/authorized_keys @rac2:/home/oracle/.ssh), vice-versa
from Node 2 to Node 1 (scp /.ssh/authorized_keys2 @rac1:/home/oracle/.ssh). This is setting up a
Passwordless Connectivity between two nodes.

Step: 102) The below is the Passwordless Connectivity between two nodes.

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Step: 103) Copy the Software from the SharedFolder.

Step: 104) Change the ownership to oracle user and oinstall group (# chown oracle:oinstall
p133390677_112020_Linux_x86-64_*) and permissions to 0755 (# chmod 0755
p133390677_112020_Linux_x86-64_*) of the copied software.

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Step: 105) unzip the software using oracle user. ($ unzip p133390677_112020_Linux_x8664_1of7.zip). Similarly all 7 zip files.

Step: 106) Goto to the folder which has the name as grid. ($ cd /grid/)

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Step: 107) Just try to run runInstaller with oracle user. ($ ./runInstaller) . The following message
must appear.

Step: 108) Select Skip software updates -> Next

Step: 109) Now Select Install and Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure as a Cluster -> Next

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Step: 110) Select Typical Installation -> Next

Step: 111) Click on Add

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Step: 112) Add Other node Public and Virtual Hostnames -> OK

Step: 113) Click on Ssh Connectivity

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Step: 114) Give the password of the oracle user -> Test -> Setup

Step: 115) The following pop-up should come for successful passwordless connectivity -> OK

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Step: 116) Give the SCAN name as we have given the hosts file ($ cat /etc/hosts) -> Next

Step: 117) The pop-up should come

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Step: 118) Check the locations in Node 1 & Node 2 should be identical. And change Cluster Registry
Storage Type (from File System to Oracle Automatic Storage Management) and give the SYSASM
password -> Next

Step: 119) Give the DiskGroup Name and if the creation of VOTING DISKS are done with correct
oracleasmlibs then those three Disks should appear automatically, otherwise we should give the
manual path by clicking Change Directory Path (/dev/oracleasm/disks/*)

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Step: 120) The oraInventory path is default -> Next

Step: 121) Prerequisite checking is going Please Wait..

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Step: 122) The two Errors can be ignored, because in test environment we will not configure NTP,
MDNS -> Next

Step: 123) Check on Ignore All -> Yes -> Next

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Step: 124) The Installation Process is going in Node 1

Step: 125) Now the Installation Process is going in Remote Node 2.

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Step: 126) Just try in run the oraInstRoot.sh and root.sh in both Nodes with root user.
(# /u01/app/oraInventory/oraInstRoot.sh) | (/u01/app/11.2.0/grid/root.sh) in Node 1 & Node 2.

Step: 127) The display should appear like the following. (oraInstRoot.sh)

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Step: 128) The display should appear like the following. (root.sh)

Step: 129) At last in root.sh the following message should appear (Configure Oracle Grid
Infrastructure for a Cluster.. Succeeded)

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Step: 130) After successfully configuration in both nodes (root.sh) click on OK in installer, post
configuration should be done successfully..

Step: 131) At last after all the pre and post configuration in succeeded then in Node 1 or Node 2 just
check the status of the RAC (crsctl stat res -t).

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