RAC infrastructure provides high availability, scalability, high ROI, and low setup costs to name a few. Oracle 11g RAC is a standard off-the-shelf product that does not require any third-party clustering solutions or cluster filesystems as it contains Oracle Clusterware and ASM. It is an exciting and challenging task to install RAC and you will become familiar with the installation of the RAC components like Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RDBMS software. This chapter will provide step by step instructions on how to install Oracle 11g RAC. The chapter places an emphasis on the installation of Oracle 11gR1 RAC Clusterware and Oracle 11gR1 RDBMS binaries, as well as the latest 11gR2 RAC Clusterware (grid) and RDBMS binaries. To sum up, we will discuss the following topics:
New features of RAC installation
Steps to ensure that the prerequisites for installation on Linux are met
CRS installation
RDBMS installation
Patching of the RAC components