Latest Oracle RAC – Important MOS IDs

RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Platform Independent)

The following document focuses on RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices that are applicable to all platforms including a white paper on available RAC System Load Testing Tools and RAC System Test Plan outlines for 10gR2 & 11gR1 and 11gR2:

Document 810394.1 RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Platform Independent)

RAC Platform Specific Best Practices and Starter Kits

The following notes contain detailed platform specific best practices including Step-By-Step installation cookbooks (downloadable in PDF format):

Document 811306.1 RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Linux)
Document 811280.1 RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Solaris)
Document 811271.1 RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Windows)
Document 811293.1 RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (AIX)
Document 811303.1 RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (HP-UX)

 

RAC on Linux Step by Step Installation Cookbook Video

Document 1442768.1 – RACGuide: 11.2.0.3 RAC Installation on Linux [Video]
Document 1600316.1 – RACGuide: 12.1.0.1 RAC Installation on Linux [Video] *NEW*

 

RAC on Linux Step by Step Installation Instructions

Click here for a Step By Step guide for installing Oracle RAC 10gR2 on Linux.
Click here for a Step By Step guide for installing Oracle RAC 11gR1 on Linux.
Click here for a Step By Step guide for installing Oracle RAC 11gR2 (11.2.0.2) on Linux.

RACcheck Upgrade Readiness Assessment

RACcheck is a RAC Configuration Audit tool designed to audit various important configuration settings within a Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Clusterware (CRS), Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Grid Infrastructure environment. The tool audits configuration settings within the following categories:

1. OS kernel parameters
   
2. OS packages
   
3. Many other OS configuration settings important to RAC.
   
4. CRS/Grid Infrastructure
   
5. RDBMS
   
6. ASM
   
7. Database parameters
   
8. Many other database configuration settings important to RAC
   
9. 11.2.0.3 Upgrade Readiness assessment
   

Documentation:

Please download and review the RACcheck Users Guide for specific instructions on how to configure and run RACcheck.
RACcheck – The RACcheck utility is available for download in the SCRIPT section of this document.
Once RACcheck execution has completed, the HTML report will be very much similar to that of in this RACcheck Sample Report.

MOS Notes:

RACcheck – RAC Configuration Audit Tool (Doc ID 1268927.1)

TAF does not work in Oracle EBS with RAC

TAF does not work with Oracle EBS suite due to Forms/TAF limitations, but we can use the tns failover clause. On instance failure, when the user logs back into the system, their session will be directed to a surviving instance, and the user will be taken to the navigator tab. Their committed work will be available; any uncommitted work must be re-started.

Oracle recommends you configure the forms error URL to identify a fallback middle tier server for Forms processes, if no router is available to accomplish switching across servers.