2014-12-29 Set Up redfern1
2014-12-23 Planning
2015-01-01 Set Up DNS and iSCSI

Contents

  1. 1 Overview
  2. 2 References
  3. 3 Procedure
    1. 3.1 Clone VM Image
    2. 3.2 Modify VM Image
    3. 3.3 Initial Changes to REDFERN1
      1. 3.3.1 Update SUDOERS
      2. 3.3.2 Update Host Name
      3. 3.3.3 Update ETHERNET Interfaces
    4. 3.4 Add Additional Storage
      1. 3.4.1 Initialize Physical Volume
      2. 3.4.2 Extend Volume Group
      3. 3.4.3 Create Logical Volume
    5. 3.5 Create Mount Point for Oracle Products
      1. 3.5.1 Create File System
      2. 3.5.2 Mount File System

Overview

Setting up the first system ( redfern1 ) to investigate Oracle RAC 12.1 .

References

Procedure

Clone VM Image

I cloned OEL6u3 Base as Redfern1 . This was a full clone.

Modify VM Image

I made the following changes to the Redfern1 VM image:

  1. Increase RAM to 4GB
  2. Add a 20GB disk. This will be mounted as /u00
  3. Add a shared folder pointing to Downloads .
  4. Change the Promiscuous Mode on Network Adapter 1 to Allow All .
  5. Added a second NIC to an internal network called "Redfern Interconnect"
  6. Added a third NIC to the bridged adapter with the Promiscuous Mode set to Allow All .
  7. Added a fourth NIC to an internal network called "Redfern ASM"

Initial Changes to REDFERN1

Update SUDOERS

The /etc/sudoers was updated using visudo as root to include the following line:

%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Update Host Name

The /etc/sysconfig/network was updated to change:

HOSTNAME=randwick.yaocm.id.au

to

HOSTNAME=redfern1.yaocm.id.au

Update ETHERNET Interfaces

The interfaces, eth1, eth2, eth3, and eth4 , are updated to have:

Parameter ETH1 ETH2 ETH3 ETH4
Name Public_Interface Redfern_Interconnect Management_Interface Redfern_ASM
IPADDR 192.168.1.140 192.168.4.140 192.168.2.140 192.168.3.140
PREFIX 24 24 24 24
GATEWAY 192.168.1.1
DNS1 192.168.1.252
DNS2 192.168.1.1
DOMAIN YAOCM.ID.AU
MTU 9000 9000 9000 9000

Add Additional Storage

Initialize Physical Volume

Following the procedure in 17.3.1 Initializing and Managing Physical Volumes , I initialized the new disk drive as follows:

pvcreate /dev/sdb

The expected response is:

Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/sdb"
Physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully created

Extend Volume Group

Used vgdisplay without any parameters to find the name(s) of the current volume groups. There was only one (1): vg_randwick .

Following the procedure in 17.3.2 Creating and Managing Volume Groups , I extended the existing volume group ( vg_randwick ) to include the new physical volume:

vgextend vg_randwick /dev/sdb

The expected response is:

Volume group "vg_randwick" successfully extended

Create Logical Volume

Following the procedure in 17.3.3 Creating and Managing Logical Volumes , I created a new logical volume of size 12GB:

lvcreate -v --size 12g --name lv_u00 vg_randwick

The expected response is:

Setting logging type to disk
Finding volume group "vg_randwick"
Archiving volume group "vg_randwick" metadata (seqno 4).
Creating logical volume lv_u00
Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg_randwick" (seqno 5).
Found volume group "vg_randwick"
activation/volume_list configuration setting not defined: Checking only host tags for vg_randwick/lv_u00
Creating vg_randwick-lv_u00
Loading vg_randwick-lv_u00 table (252:2)
Resuming vg_randwick-lv_u00 (252:2)
Clearing start of logical volume "lv_u00"
Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg_randwick" (seqno 5).
Logical volume "lv_u00" created

Create Mount Point for Oracle Products

Create File System

Following the procedure in 18.1 Making File Systems , I formatted the new logical volume lv_u00 as follows:

mkfs -t ext4 -L oracle /dev/mapper/vg_randwick-lv_u00

The expected response is:

mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem label=oracle
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
786432 inodes, 3145728 blocks
157286 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=3221225472
96 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 25 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

Mount File System

Following the procedure in 18.2 Mounting File Systems ,

mkdir /u00
mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/vg_randwick-lv_u00 /u00

Added the following line to /etc/fstab :

/dev/mapper/vg_randwick-lv_u00 /u00 ext4 defaults 1 3