
Deploying Oracle RAC 11g with ASM on AIX 6.1 with IBM XIV Storage System Version July 20, 2009
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Table of contents
Abstract........................................................................................................................................1
Executive summary ....................................................................................................................1
Introduction .................................................................................................................................2
IBM XIV Storage System.............................................................................................................2
Oracle technologies....................................................................................................................3
Oracle RAC 11g Release 1 and Oracle Clusterware .............................................................................. 3
Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services ................................................................................................ 3
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) ...................................................................................... 4
Advantages of ASM technology ......................................................................................................... 4
ASM disk groups................................................................................................................................. 4
AIX Multipath (MPIO)...................................................................................................................5
Lab test environment..................................................................................................................6
Hardware topology...................................................................................................................................6
Oracle RAC servers................................................................................................................................. 7
Storage hardware .................................................................................................................................... 7
Configuration by example ..........................................................................................................8
Configuring XIV storage by using GUI.....................................................................................................8
Setting up the storage pool...................................................................................................................... 9
Creating LUNs .......................................................................................................................................10
Creating the host connection and LUN assignments to nodes ............................................................. 12
Configuring the Hosts ............................................................................................................................14
Configuring the previously created XIV volumes on the host................................................................ 18
Installing Oracle ........................................................................................................................21
Best practice recommendations..............................................................................................24
Summary....................................................................................................................................24
Resources..................................................................................................................................25
Trademarks and special notices..............................................................................................26
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