RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home/RAC Attack 12c/Install Grid Infrastructure (ASM)

  From the VNC remote session, run the installation of Grid Infrastructure as oracle: 

[oracle@collabn1 ~]$ /media/sf_12cR1/grid/runInstaller Starting Oracle Universal Installer... Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB.  Actual 22670 MB    Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.  Actual 3023 MB    Passed Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216   Passed Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2013-08-06_04-25-00PM. Please wait ...[oracle@collabn1 ~]$ [oracle@collabn1 ~]$

 The Installation starts displaying a Splash Screen: 



 Leave Skip software updates and click Next: 



 Leave Install and Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and click Next: 



 Leave Configure a Standard Cluster and click Next: 



 Leave Typical Installation and click Next: 



 In the SCAN Name box, enter collabn-cluster-scan.racattack 

In the central box, only the first node is displayed. Click Add... and enter the network names of the second node:


 * Public Hostname: collabn2.racattack


 * Virtual Hostname: collabn2-vip.racattack



 Click SSH connectivity... </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Enter racattack as the password of oracle user and click Setup. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> The setup of SSH equivalency is initiated. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Click OK when it's completed. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Click on Identify Network Interfaces... </li>

Check that the correct addresses are set:


 * eth0 is marked as Public


 * eth1 is marked as Private


 * eth2 is marked as Do Not Use

Click OK to close the Identify Network Interfaces window.

Finally, click Next



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Some prerequisite validation is done at this step. It can require some minutes to complete. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Since the SCAN Name chosen is too long (more than 15 chars.) Oracle proposes a different name as the Cluster Name. Click Yes. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Leave the default Oracle Base and Software Location. </li>

In the Cluster Registry Storage Type combo box, select Oracle Automatic Storage Management

Enter racattack as the SYSASM password.

Select dba as OSASM group.

Click Next.



<li style="margin-top:3em"> racattack is a weak password and Oracle raise an alert. Click Yes to continue: </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Leave DATA as Disk Group Name. </li>

Select External redundancy (it is safe to do this in a RAC Attack event!).

The Candidate Disks list is empty. Click on Change Discovery Path...

Enter /dev/asm* in the Disk Discovery Path text field.

Click Ok.



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Check two disks that will be immediately allocated to the new disk group. </li>

Click Next



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Leave the default Inventory Directory. Click Next. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Check Automatically run configuration script and then Use "root" user credentials. </li>

Enter racattack as the password of root and click Next.



<li style="margin-top:3em"> It takes some time to complete the prerequisite checks. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> If everything is correct, you will notice two checks that have failed: </li>


 * Physical Memory
 * Device Checks for ASM

Check "Ignore All" and click Next.



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Click Yes to confirm that you want to skip some prerequisites. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> The summary page appears. Optionally, click Save Response File and choose a location to have the response file saved for this installation session. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> Review the summary and click Install to start the installation. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> The installation starts. It may take more than an hour, depending on your laptop hardware. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> After a while, the installation asks a confirmation before running some scripts as root. Click Yes to continue. </li>



<li style="margin-top:3em"> The installation continues, again, it may take longtime to complete. Once it's finished, click on Close to exit. </li>

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