Oracle RAC 12c Best Practices + appendices with advanced configuration examples

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Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC) 12c
Best Practices
Markus Michalewicz
Director of Product Management
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Standardize on Clusters
Scalability
Clusters increase scalability and HA regardless of DB types used later
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Standardize on Oracle RAC
For all the flexibility you need
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Flexibility
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Standardize on Oracle RAC and Oracle Multitenant
Agility
The new standard for Oracle Database Consolidation
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Or
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Or
GI
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Or
Consolidation
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Preparation of the Servers
OS image setup and more
!
Setup of the Servers include:
–
Setting up network connections
!
OS OL 6.4
dasher
–
OS OL 6.4
OS OL 6.4
comet
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Setting up shared storage for all servers
dancer
!
–
!
OS OL 6.4
Shared storage required
Setting up the OS image – here OL 6.4
Suggestion:
–
vixen
Public and private with switch
Use cloning to deploy OS images faster
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Preparation of the Servers
Kernel and Oracle preinstall package
!
Recommendations:
[root@dasher ~]# uname –a
Linux dasher 2.6.39-400.17.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 22
–
Use OL 6.4+ UEK
18:16:18 PST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
–
Use the Oracle preinstall package
!
#Get the pre-install package
[root@dasher Desktop]# yum list oracle-*
Available for
–
ol6_latest
ol6_latest
–
Oracle Database 11g Rel. 2
–
oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall.x86_64 1.0-7.el6
oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall.x86_64 1.0-8.el6
Oracle Database 12c Rel. 1
Additional steps to perform after using the
pre-install package for an Oracle RAC cluster:
!
!
Align UIDs / GUIDs across servers
!
Set SELinux to “permissive”, if possible
!
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Add a “grid” user & “dba” group
Check large / huge pages settings
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
What is the default when keeping the preselection in steps 1-4…?
!
!
Standard Cluster
!
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GI for a Cluster Installation
Typical Installation
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
Step 3: Double-check the cluster topology to deploy!
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Oracle Flex Cluster
The new standard for resource management in the cluster
! Oracle Flex Cluster:
– The new standard for flexible
resource management in the cluster
Leaf Nodes
! Use it as demand requires it
! Inherits all Flex ASM HA capabilities
! Will support more use cases in future
DB
DB
DB
B
B
A
A
DB
– Efficient High Availability and
resource management across tiers
A
DB
! Lightweight cluster stack on leaf nodes
Hub Nodes
– Benefit from virtualization and
physical deployments in one cluster
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
For now, “Standard Cluster” is the default given the preselection
! Oracle Flex Cluster
–
Can consist of only HUB-nodes
! If a Leaf-node has access to shared storage,
it can perform a role change to a HUB-node
–
A Standard Cluster can be converted to a
Flex Cluster at any time after the installation
! Once a cluster is configured as a Flex Cluster
this configuration is irreversible without a reconfiguration of the cluster.
! Recommendation:
–
An all-HUB-node Flex Cluster behaves the
same as a Standard Cluster using Flex ASM.
–
Either can be used, but if in doubt, you can
choose standard cluster and convert later.
More Information in Appendix A
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
Step 4: Do not accept the default – choose “Advanced Installation”
! Typical Installation
–
Does not provide an option to use “Flex ASM”
–
Does not provide an option to create the “Mgmt
DB / Grid Infrastructure Management Repository”
! Enhancement Requests for later
releases have been filed already
! Advanced Option
–
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Recommended for all configurations
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – SCAN & GNS requirement
! Recommendations:
–
SCAN remains to be required for the cluster
–
Choose cluster-specific unique SCAN names
–
OUI will try to enforce it as much as possible
! http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/
clustering/overview/scan-129069.pdf
–
Choose “Configure GNS” if:
! You want to use dynamic IP management
(DHCP assigned / IPv6 Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration) for client connectivity
–
In this case, GNS requirements remain as
with previous version for standard cluster
! You chose to install an Oracle Flex Cluster
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – Network Interface Usage
! Recommendations:
–
Use “Redundant Interconnect Usage” feature
! Bonding can be used underneath if required
! MOS notes explain further configuration – e.g.:
• It is recommended to align the
ASM network with the private
interconnect.
• Using different subnets for the
private interconnect is required.
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–
MOS note 1210883.1 - 11gR2 Grid
Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect
and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – Grid Infrastructure Management Repository
! Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR)
–
A Single Instance Oracle Database 12c
–
It will be installed on one of the nodes
! It is managed as a failover database
–
It contains the Cluster Health Monitor (CHM) data
–
It is stored in the first ASM disk group created
–
As part of the configuration, Quality of Service
Management (QoS) required resources are
added to the cluster configuration (e.g. OC4J)
! Recommendation: configure the GIMR!
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – Storage Options
! For Standard Cluster Installations
three storage options are available:
1. Standard ASM
! ASM configuration as known
from previous releases
2. Oracle Flex ASM
! Recommended option available
with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
–
Flex Cluster requires Flex ASM
3. Shared File System
! Alternative
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Oracle ASM 12c – Overview
Oracle ASM 12c Standard Deployment
RAC Cluster
Database Instance
One to One
Mapping of ASM
Instances to
Servers
DBA
DBB
DBB
DBB
DBC
ASM Instance
Node1
Shared Disk
Groups
DBA
ASM Instance
ASM
Node2
ASM
Node3
ASM
Node4
ASM
Node5
ASM
ASM Cluster Pool of Storage
Disk Group A
Disk Group B
ASM Disk
Wide File Striping
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Introducing Oracle Flex ASM
Removal of One to One Mapping and HA
RAC Cluster
Database Instance
Databases share
ASM instances
DBA
DBA
ASM Instance
DBB
DBB
DBB
DBC
ASM Instance
Node1
Node1
runs as
ASM Client
to Node4
Node2
Shared Disk
Groups
Node2
ASM
Node3
ASM
Node4
Node2
runs as
ASM Client
to Node3
ASM
Node5
Node5
runs as
ASM Client
to Node4
ASM Cluster Pool of Storage
Disk Group A
Disk Group B
ASM Disk
Wide File Striping
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
Use Oracle Flex ASM for storage management
! Recommendations:
–
Use Oracle Flex ASM for storage
! For better HA of database instances
! Reserve per-node spare memory
[GRID]> ps -ef |grep pmon
grid
grid
grid
grid
3822
1
4865
1
9592
1
19114 19003
0
0
0
0
08:05
08:06
08:09
09:22
?
?
?
pts/0
00:00:00
00:00:00
00:00:00
00:00:00
asm_pmon_+ASM1
mdb_pmon_-MGMTDB
apx_pmon_+APX1
grep pmon
More Information in Appendix B
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – Create ASM Disk Group
! Recommendations:
–
Create Infrastructure Disk Group (DG) first
! Use it to host OCR / Voting Disk
–
–
Choose Redundancy accordingly
–
Normal (+) redundancy is recommended
Create Data and FRA disk groups
post installation and as required.
! Optional: Use it to host shared DB homes
by creating an ACFS file system on top of it
–
–
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/cloud-storage/
oop-patching-of-acfs-shared-oh-1885763.pdf
ADVM volumes can be of lower
redundancy than the underlying DG
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – Prerequisite Checks Part 1
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New Memory Requirements
Just something to consider
[GRID]> srvctl status asm
ASM is running on comet,dasher,dancer
[GRID]> srvctl status mgmtdb
Database is enabled
Instance -MGMTDB is running on node dasher
[GRID]> ps -ef |grep pmon
Physical memory requirements
with Oracle RAC 12c: 4GB
grid
grid
grid
oracle
3227
3868
7364
7917
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
13:54
13:55
13:57
13:57
?
?
?
?
00:00:02
00:00:01
00:00:01
00:00:02
asm_pmon_+ASM1
mdb_pmon_-MGMTDB
apx_pmon_+APX1
ora_pmon_raccdb1_4
[RAC]> df -h
Filesystem
...
tmpfs
Size
Used Avail Use% Mounted on
1.7G
1.3G
475M
73% /dev/shm
...
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Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
“Advanced Installation” – Prerequisite Checks Part 2
Do fix
later!
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Install the Oracle Database Home
Nothing special – just a quick walk through
Not the
default…
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Install the Oracle Database Home
A few things to point out
ACFS based
shared home …
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Before Creating Databases
Create Server Pools and additional disk groups as required
[GRID]$ srvctl add srvpool –serverpool backoffice
–min 1 –max 2 –i 1
[GRID]$ srvctl add srvpool –serverpool frontoffice
–min 1 –max 4 –i 2
Create additional disk
groups as required.
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Create an Oracle Database
What is the default when keeping the preselection in steps 1-4…?
!
!
Oracle RAC-based
!
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Policy-managed
Non-CDB Database
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Create an Oracle RAC Database
A few tips and tricks…
Create an empty
multitenant CDB.
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Create an Oracle RAC Database
A few tips and tricks…
! Recommendations:
–
Use a different disk group than the “database file
location”-disk group as the Fast Recovery Area.
–
Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
recommendation remains unchanged
! Use it for any current production database
! New in Oracle Database 12c:
ACFS can be used to host database files
This is the default…,
but not recommended
–
Use ACFS for database files, if you want to
! manage “all data” on a file system
! use advanced functionality such as
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Milestone
What has been installed and configured so far?
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
OS OL 6.4
OS OL 6.4
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
[RAC]> srvctl status database -d raccdb1
Instance raccdb1_1 is running on node comet
Instance raccdb1_2 is running on node dancer
[RAC]>srvctl status srvpool -serverpool backoffice -detail
Server pool name: backoffice
Active servers count: 2
Active server names: comet,dancer
NAME=comet STATE=ONLINE
NAME=dancer STATE=ONLINE
[RAC]> srvctl status srvpool
raccdb1_1
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
OS OL 6.4
comet
srvpool: backoffice
OS OL 6.4
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
Server
Active
Server
Active
Server
Active
Server
Active
pool name: Free
servers count: 0
pool name: Generic
servers count: 0
pool name: backoffice
servers count: 2
pool name: frontoffice
servers count: 2
raccdb1
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Create Pluggable Databases
Create HR PDB on running instances
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Create a PDB on a node
that hosts a multintenant
CDB instance
Oracle GI for a cluster
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
raccdb1_1
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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Create Pluggable Databases
Create CRM PDB on running instances
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
raccdb1_1
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Post-Creation Steps
Create services to balance the workload – part 1
! Dynamic Database Services
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
dancer srvpool: backoffice
For easier management of multitenant CDBs
–
For better workload management in the cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
–
[RAC]> srvctl add service -d raccdb1 -s hrsvc -pdb hr serverpool backoffice
raccdb1_1
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
comet
srvpool: backoffice
! Start services after creation and as required
vixen
[RAC]> srvctl add service -d raccdb1 -s crmsvc -pdb crm serverpool frontoffice
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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Post-Creation Steps
Create services to balance the workload – part 2
! Pluggable Databases
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Oracle GI for a cluster
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
–
By default are in mount status after creation
–
They need to be opened in either r/o or w/r
–
Startup and distribution of Pluggable databases
can be automated and optimized using services
dancer srvpool: backoffice
[RAC]> srvctl status database -d raccdb1
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
is
is
is
is
running
running
running
running
on
on
on
on
node
node
node
node
comet
dancer
vixen
dasher
[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: vixen,dasher
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: comet,dancer
raccdb1
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raccdb1_1
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_3
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI for a cluster
Instance
Instance
Instance
Instance
More Information in Appendix C
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Post-Install Steps
Check your environment regularly using CVU and RACcheck
! CVU is run regularly as part of the GI stack
#CVU is run regularly by default
[GRID]> srvctl status cvu
CVU is enabled and running on node comet
! Use RACcheck - RAC Configuration Audit Tool
–
For details see MOS note 1268927.1
–
New features in 2.2.2 included (latest version 2.2.3):
! Execution as the root user for sysadmin
profile e.g. ./raccheck -profile sysadmin
! RACcheck daemon feature to automate
execution of RACcheck non-interactively
at predefined interval
! Support for Solaris Sparc 11
! Upgrade best practices for 11.2.0.3,
11.2.0.4 and Oracle Database 12c
! Standard health check is now
included in post upgrade
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Log Collection Essentials
Use Trace File Analyzer (TFA) to collect Data
!
LOGs
Goals
–
–
LOGs
Efficient collection, packaging
and transfer of data for customers
–
Reduce round trips between
customers and Oracle
–
Supports 10.2, 11.1, 11.2 and 12.1
–
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI
dasher
Improved comprehensive first
failure diagnostics collection
Included in the 11.2.0.4 patch set
and future versions – including 12c
TFA
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI
comet
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Log Collection Essentials
Use Trace File Analyzer (TFA) to collect Data
!
LOGs
Approach
–
–
One command to collect all information
–
Prune large files based on temporal criteria
–
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI
Collect for all relevant components
(OS, Grid Infrastructure, ASM, RDBMS)
Collect time relevant IPS (incident)
packages on RAC nodes
–
Collect time relevant CHM/OS,
OSWatcher data on all Oracle RAC nodes
–
On-demand (default) and
Event Driven diagnostic collections
dasher
LOGs
TFA
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI
comet
!
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TFA Collector – MOS note ID 1513912.1
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TFA – Usage Example
$ sudo ./tfactl diagcollect
One simple command
Sending diagcollect request to host : myhost2
Getting list of files satisfying time range [Tue Sep 03 14:17:43 PDT 2013, Tue Sep 03 18:17:43 PDT 2013]
myhost1: Zipping File: /opt/oracle/oak/oswbb/archive/oswiostat/myhost1_iostat_13.09.03.1500.dat.gz
myhost1: Zipping File: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/bill/bill1/trace/alert_bill1.log
Trimming file : /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/bill/bill1/trace/alert_bill1.log with original file size : 109kB
myhost1: Zipping File: /opt/oracle/oak/oswbb/archive/oswtop/myhost1_top_13.09.03.1500.dat.gz
myhost1: Zipping File: /opt/oracle/oak/log/myhost1/oak/oakd.log
Trimming file : /opt/oracle/oak/log/myhost1/oak/oakd.log with original file size : 9.2MB
myhost1: Zipping File: /u01/app/11.2.0.3/grid/log/myhost1/gipcd/gipcd.log
myhost1: Zipping File: /u01/app/11.2.0.3/grid/log/myhost1/agent/ohasd/oraagent_grid/oraagent_grid.log
Trimming file : /u01/app/11.2.0.3/grid/log/myhost1/agent/ohasd/oraagent_grid/oraagent_grid.log with original filesize 4.3MB
myhost1: Zipping File: /var/log/messages
…Truncated for brevity
myhost1: Zipping File: /opt/oracle/oak/oswbb/archive/oswslabinfo/myhost1_slabinfo_13.09.03.1800.dat
Collecting ADR incident files...
Total Number of Files checked : 10543
Total Size of all Files Checked : 3.9GB
Number of files containing required range : 68
Total Size of Files containing required range : 129MB
Number of files trimmed : 10
Total Size of data prior to zip : 144MB
Saved 63MB by trimming files
Zip file size : 8.6MB
Total time taken : 47s.
OS Watcher files
Pruning
Relevant files only
ADR Incident files
144MB pruned and compressed down to 8.6MB
47 seconds! – 1 command, 2 nodes, 4 databases, ASM, Clusterware, OS
Logs are collected to:
/opt/oracle/tfa/tfa_home/repository/collection_Tue_Sep_3_18_17_24_PDT_2013_node_all/myhost1.tfa_Tue_Sep_3_18_17_24_PDT_2013.zip
/opt/oracle/tfa/tfa_home/repository/collection_Tue_Sep_3_18_17_24_PDT_2013_node_all/myhost2.tfa_Tue_Sep_3_18_17_24_PDT_2013.zip
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Post-Install Steps
Monitor best practices notes and announcements
! RACcheck - RAC Configuration Audit Tool
–
For details see MOS note 1268927.1
! Great, but as any tool, RACcheck has a release cycle
! Best practices My Oracle Support (MOS) notes:
–
MOS note 810394.1 - RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Platform Independent)
! MOS note 811306.1 - RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Linux)
! MOS note 811280.1 - RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Solaris)
–
Note: Engineered Systems with the same OS will have additional recommendations
! MOS note 811271.1 - RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (Windows)
! MOS note 811303.1 - RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (HP-UX)
! MOS note 811293.1 - RAC and Oracle Clusterware Best Practices and Starter Kit (AIX)
! MOS note 1452965.2 –
–
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Questions
and
Answers
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Agenda
!
!
Preparation of the Servers for Oracle RAC 12c
!
Installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
!
Installation of the Oracle Database Home
!
Oracle (RAC) Database Creation using DBCA
!
Post-install Steps and Configuration
!
Summary and Q&A
!
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Oracle RAC 12c and Standardization
Appendices A-C
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Appendix A:
Converting to an Oracle
Flex Cluster with Node
Conversion Example
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Oracle Flex Cluster
Some configuration details
! Oracle Flex Cluster
–
Will be the basis for more uses cases
in future releases (for resource mgmt)
–
Can consist of only HUB-nodes
–
[GRID]> crsctl get cluster mode config
If a Leaf-node has access to shared storage,
it can perform a role change to a HUB-node
–
A Standard Cluster can be converted to a
Flex Cluster at any time after the installation
–
Once a cluster is configured as a Flex Cluster
this configuration is irreversible without a reconfiguration of the cluster.
Cluster is configured as "standard"
[GRID]> crsctl get cluster mode status
Cluster is running in "standard" mode
[GRID]> olsnodes -s -a -t
dasher
vixen
dancer
comet
Active
Active
Active
Active
Hub
Hub
Hub
Hub
Unpinned
Unpinned
Unpinned
Unpinned
• Not a Flex Cluster yet.
• An all-Hub Flex Cluster is
basically a Standard Cluster
! More Information:
–
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bigcluster.htm#CWADD92560
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Oracle Flex Cluster
Converting to Flex Cluster
! More Information:
–
[GRID]> srvctl config gns
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/rac.121/e17886/
bigcluster.htm#CHDJGBII
PRKF-1110 : Neither GNS server nor GNS client is configured on
this cluster
[GRID]> more /etc/hosts |grep gns
10.1.1.99
mygns mygns.localdomain
#Change to root
[GRID]> su
Password:
[GRID]> srvctl add gns -vip mygns
[GRID]> srvctl start gns
[GRID]> crsctl set cluster mode flex
Cluster mode set to "flex »
[GRID]> crsctl get cluster mode status
Cluster is running in "standard" mode
! Flex Cluster implementations require GNS
! Converting a Flex Cluster requires a cluster restart
–
Use “crsctl stop crs” followed by “crsctl start crs” as root
–
Hence the difference between “status” and “config”
–
Nodes can be restarted in a rolling fashion:
[GRID]> date ; hostname ;
crsctl get cluster mode status
Sat Sep 14 14:43:45 PDT 2013
dasher
Cluster is running in "flex" mode
[GRID]> date ; hostname ;
crsctl get cluster mode status
Sat Sep 14 14:43:37 PDT 2013
dancer
Cluster is running in "standard" mode
[GRID]> crsctl get cluster mode config
Cluster is configured as "flex"
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Oracle Flex Cluster
Standard to Flex Cluster conversion – what has changed?
! Nothing at first glance…
–
An all-Hub Flex Cluster behaves
like a Standard Cluster
–
When converting from Standard Cluster
all nodes are converted into HUB-nodes
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
[GRID]> crsctl get cluster mode status
Cluster is running in "flex" mode
[GRID]> olsnodes -a -s -t
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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dasher
vixen
dancer
comet
Active
Active
Active
Active
Hub
Hub
Hub
Hub
Unpinned
Unpinned
Unpinned
Unpinned
[RAC]> srvctl status database -d raccdb1
Instance
Instance
Instance
Instance
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_3
raccdb1_4
is
is
is
is
running
running
running
running
on
on
on
on
node
node
node
node
comet
dancer
vixen
dasher
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Oracle Flex Cluster
Changing node roles – server vixen becomes a Leaf node
! More Information:
[GRID]> hostname
vixen
–
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/rac.121/e17886/
bigcluster.htm#BABHCEAE
[GRID]> srvctl config vip -node vixen
VIP exists: network number 1, hosting node vixen
VIP Name: vixen-vip
VIP IPv4 Address: 10.1.1.33
VIP IPv6 Address:
[GRID]> crsctl get node role config
Node 'vixen' configured role is 'hub'
#Change to root …
[GRID]> su
Password:
[GRID]> crsctl get node role config
[GRID]> crsctl set node role leaf
[GRID]> srvctl config vip -node vixen
CRS-4408: Node 'vixen' configured role successfully changed; restart
Oracle High Availability Services for new role to take effect.
[GRID]> crsctl stop crs
[GRID]> crsctl start crs
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Node 'vixen' configured role is 'leaf'
VIP
VIP
VIP
VIP
exists: network number 1, hosting node vixen
Name: vixen-vip
IPv4 Address: 10.1.1.33
IPv6 Address:
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Oracle Flex Cluster
Node role change to Leaf – what has changed?
! Server vixen has converted to a Leaf node
! Leaf nodes do not host DB instances in 12.1
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
srvpool: backoffice
Server Pool “frontoffice” is a database pool
–
Note: all nodes in this example have access
to shared storage, which means only the node
role changes – storage access is preserved.
[RAC]> srvctl status database -d raccdb1
raccdb1_1
comet
! Server vixen moved to Server Pool “FREE” as
Oracle GI | LEAF
vixen
srvpool: FREE
Instance raccdb1_1 is running on node comet
Instance raccdb1_2 is running on node dancer
Instance raccdb1_4 is running on node dasher
[RAC]> srvctl status server -servers vixen -detail
Server
Server
Server
Server
active pools: Free
name: vixen
state: ONLINE
state details:
raccdb1
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Oracle Flex Cluster
Revert role change – server vixen becomes a HUB again
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
#As root
[GRID]> crsctl set node role hub
CRS-4408: Node 'vixen' configured role successfully changed;
restart Oracle High Availability Services for new role to take
effect.
[GRID]> crsctl stop crs
[GRID]> crsctl start crs
[RAC]> srvctl status database -d raccdb1
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Instance
Instance
Instance
Instance
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_3
raccdb1_4
is
is
is
is
running
running
running
running
on
on
on
on
node
node
node
node
comet
dancer
vixen
dasher
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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Appendix B:
Oracle Flex ASM –
Details and Test Scenarios
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Oracle Flex ASM
Configuration details
! Flex ASM introduces new local resources:
–
[GRID]> crsctl stat res -t
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name
Target State
Server
State details
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Local Resources
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.ASMNET1LSNR_ASM.lsnr
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
comet
dancer
dasher
vixen
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
OFFLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
OFFLINE
comet
dancer
dasher
vixen
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
OFFLINE
...
ora.DATA.dg
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
OFFLINE
comet
dancer
dasher
vixen
comet
dancer
dasher
vixen
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
One “proxy_advm” (per node)
! Used for ACFS access to Flex ASM instances
! Connections from a database instance to an ASM
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
STABLE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
At least one ASM listener
–
...
ora.INFRA.dg
instance are based on SQLnet using listeners.
–
The listener directs the connection to the least loaded
ASM instance based on the load metric it maintains.
–
The connection details are fetched from CSS global data
–
The ASM instance to which the database instance
connects to is listed in the database alert log:
!
...
ora.proxy_advm
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
ONLINE
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–
NOTE: ASMB connected to ASM instance
+ASM1 (Flex mode; client id 0x10004)
The userid and password supplied are also managed
automatically. They are supplied while establishing the
session, not while connecting.
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Oracle Flex ASM
Administering Flex ASM
! Check ASM mode using asmcmd
! Check where ASM instances are running using srvctl
[GRID]> asmcmd
ASMCMD> showclustermode
ASM cluster : Flex mode enabled
! Check the configuration of ASM using srvctl
[GRID]> srvctl status asm
ASM is running on comet,dasher,dancer
! Modify the ASM configuration using srvctl
[GRID]> srvctl config asm -detail
ASM home: /u01/app/12.1.0/grid
Password file: +INFRA/orapwASM
ASM listener: LISTENER
ASM is enabled.
ASM instance count: 3
! Cluster ASM listener:
[GRID]> srvctl modify asm -count all
–
Flex ASM can have its own network or overlap with the
private interconnect network used by RAC DB instances
–
Cluster ASM listener: ASMNET1LSNR_ASM,ASMNET2LSNR_ASM
It is recommended to configure a full overlap of the private
interconnect and the ASM network in current use cases:
[GRID]> srvctl status asm
ASM is running on comet,dasher,dancer
[GRID]> srvctl start asm
[GRID]> srvctl status asm
ASM is running on comet,vixen,dasher,dancer
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Oracle Flex ASM
Some test scenarios…
! A failure of an ASM instance is without effect for the
databases using ASM disk groups (here: -MGMTDB)
[GRID]> ps -ef |grep pmon
grid
grid
grid
oracle
3840
4093
4548
5092
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
09:11
11:35
11:36
11:36
00:00:01
00:00:00
00:00:00
00:00:00
mdb_pmon_-MGMTDB
asm_pmon_+ASM1
apx_pmon_+APX1
ora_pmon_raccdb1_4
[GRID]> kill -9 4093
[GRID]> ps -ef |grep pmon
grid
grid
oracle
3840
4548
5092
1
1
1
0 09:11 ?
0 11:36 ?
0 11:36 ?
00:00:01 mdb_pmon_-MGMTDB
00:00:00 apx_pmon_+APX1
00:00:00 ora_pmon_raccdb1_4
3840
1
4548
1
5092
1
5748
1
5793 19013
0
0
0
0
0
09:11
11:36
11:36
11:39
11:39
If an ASM instance is running on all nodes (count all)
the ASM instance is restarted upon failure
–
If an ASM instance is running on a subset of nodes
the ASM instance might be restarted on another node
The client using the ASM instance may change
! A failure of an ASM instance is without effect for
the APX (ADVM proxy) running on the same node
[GRID]> ps -ef |grep pmon
grid
grid
oracle
grid
grid
–
–
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
pts/1
00:00:01
00:00:00
00:00:00
00:00:00
00:00:00
mdb_pmon_-MGMTDB
apx_pmon_+APX1
ora_pmon_raccdb1_4
asm_pmon_+ASM1
grep pmon
! A failure of the APX will lead to a restart of the database
instance (on the node) that uses an ACFS file system.
[GRID]> asmcmd lsct data
DB_Name
+APX
Status
CONNECTED
Software_Version
12.1.0.1.0
Compatible_version
12.0.0.0.0
Instance_Name
+APX1
Disk_Group
DATA
[GRID]> ssh vixen /u01/app/12.1.0/grid/bin/asmcmd lsct data
DB_Name
+APX
+APX
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Status
CONNECTED
CONNECTED
Software_Version
12.1.0.1.0
12.1.0.1.0
Compatible_version
12.0.0.0.0
12.0.0.0.0
Instance_Name
+APX2
+APX3
Disk_Group
DATA
DATA
! More information:
–
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/server.121/e17612/
asminst.htm#OSTMG95329
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Appendix C:
Policy-Managed Databases
and with Oracle RAC 12c
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Policy-Managed Databases with Oracle RAC 12c
Database Services
! Database Services
–
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
Ensure that workload is hosted in the respective
server pool with the cardinality defined as part of
the policy definition.
dancer srvpool: backoffice
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
[GRID]> srvctl status serverpool
Server pool name: frontoffice
Active Servers count: 2
Server pool name: backoffice
Active Servers count: 2
[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: dasher,vixen
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: comet,dancer
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Improved HA Management - Startup
3rd
1st
! Defining a Service Startup Order
–
Ensure services are started in specified groups
and specified order.
–
Leverages Serverpool Min and Importance properties
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
2nd
4th
[GRID]> srvctl config serverpool
Server pool name: frontoffice
Importance: 10, Min: 2, Max 2
Server pool name: backoffice
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
Importance: 5, Min: 1, Max 1
Server pool name: Free
Importance: 0, Min: 0, Max -1
Oracle GI | HUB
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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Policy-Managed Databases with Oracle RAC 12c
Improved HA Management – New Failover Strategy
! Servers “Move” to Replace Failed node
–
raccdb1_4
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Ensures workload isolation between pools
–
Less important workloads shutdown transactionally
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
Protects against cascade failures due to load
–
dancer srvpool: backoffice
frontoffice
[GRID]> srvctl config serverpool
Server pool name: frontoffice
Importance: 10, Min: 2, Max 2
Server pool name: backoffice
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
Importance: 5, Min: 1, Max 1
[GRID]> srvctl status serverpool
Server pool name: frontoffice
Active Servers count: 2
Server pool name: backoffice
Active Servers count: 1
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Policy-Managed Databases with Oracle RAC 12c
Improved HA Management – Manage Last Service Standing
! Business Critical Services survive multiple failures
–
raccdb1_4
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
–
Services preserved across multiple failures
–
Less important workloads shutdown transactionally
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
Most important pool always gets the servers
dancer srvpool: backoffice
frontoffice
[RAC]> srvctl config serverpool
Server pool name: frontoffice
Importance: 10, Min: 2, Max 2
Server pool name: backoffice
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
srvpool: frontoffice
Oracle GI | HUB
vixen
Importance: 5, Min: 1, Max 1
[RAC]> srvctl status service –db
Service crmsrv is running on nodes comet,vixen
Service hrsvc is not running
srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1
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Policy-Managed Databases with Oracle RAC 12c
Improved HA Management – Dynamic Provisioning
! Add Servers Just-In Time to meet demand
–
raccdb1_4
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_2
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Dynamically controlled by QoS Management
–
Planned control via Clusterware or QoSM Policies
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
Server Pools sized via Min and Max properties
–
dancer srvpool: backoffice
frontoffice
[GRID]> srvctl modify serverpool
–serverpool backoffice –max 1
[RAC]> srvctl config serverpool
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backoffice
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
Server pool name: frontoffice
Importance: 10, Min: 2, Max 4
Server pool name: backoffice
Importance: 5, Min: 1, Max 1
[RAC]> srvctl status service –db
Service crmsrv is running on nodes dasher,dancer,vixen
Service hrsvc is not running
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Support for Multiple Policies tracking business objectives
! More Information:
–
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/rac.121/e17886/pbmgmt.htm
! New in Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c
–
[GRID]> crsctl modify policyset –attr
"LAST_ACTIVATED_POLICY=NightTime“
QoS Management
OR
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop
'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet'
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop
'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on
'comet' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to start
'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'comet'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on
'dancer' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start
'ora.raccdb1.hrsvc.svc' on 'dancer‘
Server Categories
! Server Categories use server attributes to allow
for an active use of differently sized servers
–
Policy Sets
! Policy Sets allow for dynamic adjustment
to demand changes in an atomic transaction
Server Attributes
• NAME
• MEMORY_SIZE!
• CPU_COUNT
• CPU_CLOCK_RATE!
• CPU_HYPERTHREADING!
• CPU_EQUIVALENCY
• …!
…
Oracle Clusterware - CRSCTL
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Server Categories
•
•
•
•
NAME
ACL
EXPRESSION
…
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Setting up policy sets – Provision Server Pools and creating a PolicySet
! Add another server pool “backup”
[GRID]> srvctl add serverpool
–serverpool backup –min 0 –max 2 –importance 20
[GRID] srvctl status serverpool
! Set up policy set with 3 server pools & 3 policies as follows:
–
Active Servers count: 1
Server pool name: backup
–
backoffice uses one server (MIN_SIZE=1)
!
Server pool name: backoffice
frontoffice uses three servers (MIN_SIZE=3)
!
Active Servers count: 3
Active Servers count: 0
DayTime:
!
Server pool name: frontoffice
backup does not run during daytime (MIN_SIZE=0)
NightTime:
!
backoffice uses two servers (MIN_SIZE=2)
!
–
frontoffice uses one server (MIN_SIZE=1)
!
[GRID]> crsctl modify policyset
-file /u01/app/…/policyset.txt
backup uses only one server (MIN_SIZE=1)
Weekend:
!
backoffice uses one server (MIN_SIZE=1)
!
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frontoffice uses one server (MIN_SIZE=1)
!
backup uses two servers (MIN_SIZE=2)
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Using Policy Sets – part 1: Activate a policy
[GRID]> crsctl modify policyset
-attr "LAST_ACTIVATED_POLICY=Weekend"
[GRID]> srvctl config serverpool
Server pool name: Free
Importance: 0, Min: 0, Max: -1
Category:
Candidate server names:
Server pool name: Generic
Importance: 0, Min: 0, Max: -1
Category:
Candidate server names:
Server pool name: backoffice
Importance: 0, Min: 1, Max: 1
Category:
Candidate server names:
Server pool name: backup
Importance: 1, Min: 2, Max: 2
Category:
Candidate server names:
Server pool name: frontoffice
Importance: 0, Min: 1, Max: 1
Category:
Candidate server names:
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! Activate the policy for the weekend
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Using Policy Sets – part 2: check the result
! With an activated weekend policy
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: backoffice
Oracle GI | HUB
dancer srvpool: backup
[RAC]> srvctl status database -d raccdb1
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_3
raccdb1_4
is
is
is
is
running
running
running
running
on
on
on
on
node
node
node
node
comet
dancer
vixen
dasher
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
Instance
Instance
Instance
Instance
srvpool: backup
Oracle GI | HUB
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
Service backup is running on nodes: comet,dancer
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: vixen
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: dasher
raccdb1
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Adding Server Categories to the picture – part 1
! Assume you have 2 servers that have better IO
[GRID]> su
Password:
[GRID]> crsctl set server label IOplus
...
–
Use these servers for backups whenever possible
! Here comet and dancer have better IO by definition
#On dancer
[GRID]> crsctl set server label Ioplus
[GRID]> crsctl get server label
CRS-4972: Current SERVER_LABEL parameter value is Ioplus
[GRID]> crsctl status server comet dancer –f
Comet
Dancer
NAME=comet
MEMORY_SIZE=3338
CPU_COUNT=1
CPU_CLOCK_RATE=2132
CPU_HYPERTHREADING=0
CPU_EQUIVALENCY=1000
DEPLOYMENT=other
CONFIGURED_CSS_ROLE=hub
RESOURCE_USE_ENABLED=1
NAME=dancer
MEMORY_SIZE=3338
CPU_COUNT=1
CPU_CLOCK_RATE=2247
CPU_HYPERTHREADING=0
CPU_EQUIVALENCY=1000
DEPLOYMENT=other
CONFIGURED_CSS_ROLE=hub
RESOURCE_USE_ENABLED=1
SERVER_LABEL=IOplus
SERVER_LABEL=IOplus
...
! What you need to do:
–
Set up a server category that identifies the servers
–
Add the use of the server category to the server pool
...
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! Define the server pools that utilize the category
and during which policy activation it shall be used.
! You need to restart the cluster stack on
the servers that you modify in this fashion
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Adding Server Categories to the picture – part 2
! What you need to do:
[GRID]> crsctl add category moreIO
–attr "EXPRESSION='SERVER_LABEL co IOplus'"
[GRID]> crsctl status category moreIO
–
Set up a server category that identifies the servers done
–
Add the use of the server category to the server pool
NAME=moreIO
ACL=owner:grid:rwx,pgrp:oinstall:rwx,other::r-ACTIVE_CSS_ROLE=hub
EXPRESSION=(SERVER_LABEL co IOplus)
[GRID]> crsctl modify serverpool ora.backup
-attr "SERVER_CATEGORY=moreIO" -all_policies
! Define the server pools that utilize the category
and during which policy activation it shall be used
! Note: Add the server category usage to the
server pool(s) that require it & specify the
policies that should be altered accordingly
–
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In this example the backup server pool is the one
that will benefit the most and the policies will only
start this server pool as required.
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Adding Server Categories to the picture – comparison
Before
After
[GRID]> crsctl status policy DayTime
[GRID]> crsctl status policy DayTime
POLICY
NAME=DayTime
DESCRIPTION=
SERVERPOOL
NAME=Free
...
SERVERPOOL
NAME=ora.backoffice
IMPORTANCE=0
MAX_SIZE=1
MIN_SIZE=1
SERVER_CATEGORY=
SERVER_NAMES=
SERVERPOOL
NAME=ora.backup
IMPORTANCE=0
MAX_SIZE=0
MIN_SIZE=0
SERVER_CATEGORY=
SERVER_NAMES=
SERVERPOOL
NAME=ora.frontoffice
IMPORTANCE=0
MAX_SIZE=3
MIN_SIZE=3
SERVER_CATEGORY=
SERVER_NAMES=
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POLICY
NAME=DayTime
DESCRIPTION=
SERVERPOOL
NAME=Free
...
SERVERPOOL
NAME=ora.backoffice
IMPORTANCE=0
MAX_SIZE=1
MIN_SIZE=1
SERVER_CATEGORY=
SERVER_NAMES=
SERVERPOOL
NAME=ora.backup
IMPORTANCE=0
MAX_SIZE=0
MIN_SIZE=0
SERVER_CATEGORY=moreIO
SERVER_NAMES=
SERVERPOOL
NAME=ora.frontoffice
IMPORTANCE=0
MAX_SIZE=3
MIN_SIZE=3
SERVER_CATEGORY=
SERVER_NAMES=
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Using Policy Sets and the effect of Server Categories
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: backoffice
Oracle GI | HUB
dancer srvpool: backup
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backup
Oracle GI | HUB
vixen
raccdb1
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srvpool: frontoffice
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: frontoffice
Oracle GI | HUB
vixen
srvpool: backoffice
raccdb1
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
Using Policy Sets means changing policies on a push of a button
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backup
backoffice
[GRID]> crsctl modify policyset –attr
"LAST_ACTIVATED_POLICY=DayTime“
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_1
[GRID]
Server
Active
Server
Active
Server
Active
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: frontoffice
srvpool: backup
vixen
srvpool: frontoffice
srvctl status serverpool
pool name: frontoffice
Servers count: 3
pool name: backoffice
Servers count: 1
pool name: backup
Servers count: 0
[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
Service backup is not running.
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: dasher,vixen,comet
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: dancer
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Using Policy Sets – changing policies on the push of a button is fast …
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: backoffice
raccdb1_1
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: backup
[GRID]> date; crsctl modify policyset -attr
raccdb1_2
"LAST_ACTIVATED_POLICY=DayTime"; date
vixen
raccdb1
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srvpool: frontoffice
comet
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Mon Sep 16 19:26:42 PDT 2013
Oracle GI | 'dancer'
Oracle GI | HUB
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on HUB
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' onfrontoffice
dancer srvpool: backup
dasher srvpool: 'comet'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'dancer' succeeded
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'comet' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer'
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer' succeeded
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet' succeeded
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Mon Sep 16 19:26:43 PDT 2013
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
" Time to execute: 1 second!
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
srvpool: frontoffice
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
dancer srvpool: frontoffice
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
vixen
srvpool: backoffice
raccdb1
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Policy-Management with Oracle RAC 12c
What-If evaluation of policy changes
[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
raccdb1_2
raccdb1_4
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
dasher srvpool: frontoffice
dancer srvpool: backoffice
Service backup is not running.
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: dancer,vixen,dasher
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: comet
[GRID]> crsctl eval activate policy Weekend
Stage Group 1:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stage Number
Required
Action
------------------------------------------------------------------------------1
Y
Y
raccdb1_1
raccdb1_3
Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC
Oracle GI | HUB
Oracle GI | HUB
comet
srvpool: frontoffice
vixen
Y
Y
2
Y
srvpool: frontoffice
Y
Server 'comet' will be moved from pools
[ora.frontoffice] to pools [ora.backup]
Server 'dancer' will be moved from pools
[ora.frontoffice] to pools [ora.backup]
Resource 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' (1/1) will be
in state [OFFLINE]
Resource 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' (2/1) will be
in state [OFFLINE]
Resource
in state
Resource
in state
[dancer]
'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc'
[ONLINE|INTERMEDIATE] on
'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc'
[ONLINE|INTERMEDIATE] on
(1/1) will be
server[comet]
(2/1) will be
server
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What-If evaluation of policy changes – in various levels
[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
Service backup is not running.
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: dancer,vixen,dasher
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: comet
[GRID]> crsctl eval activate policy Weekend
-admin -l 'resources'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name
Target State
Server
Effect
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cluster Resources
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------ora.mgmtdb
1
ONLINE ONLINE
dasher
ora.raccdb1.backup.svc
1
ONLINE ONLINE
comet
Started
2
ONLINE ONLINE
dancer
Started
ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc
1
ONLINE OFFLINE
Stopped
2
ONLINE OFFLINE
Stopped
3
ONLINE ONLINE
dasher
ora.raccdb1.db
1
ONLINE ONLINE
comet
2
ONLINE ONLINE
dancer
3
ONLINE ONLINE
vixen
4
ONLINE ONLINE
dasher
ora.raccdb1.hrsvc.svc
1
ONLINE ONLINE
vixen
2
ONLINE OFFLINE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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[RAC]> srvctl status service -d raccdb1
Service backup is not running.
Service crmsvc is running on nodes: dancer,vixen,dasher
Service hrsvc is running on nodes: comet
[GRID]> crsctl eval activate policy Weekend
NAME = Free
ACTIVE_SERVERS
=
NAME = Generic
ACTIVE_SERVERS
-admin -l 'serverpools'
=
NAME = ora.backoffice
ACTIVE_SERVERS = vixen
NAME = ora.backup
ACTIVE_SERVERS = comet dancer
NAME = ora.frontoffice
ACTIVE_SERVERS = dasher
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Information on each step on the way
Before
After
[GRID]> crsctl modify policyset -attr
"LAST_ACTIVATED_POLICY=NightTime“
[GRID]> crsctl modify policyset -attr
"LAST_ACTIVATED_POLICY=DayTime"
CRS-2673:
CRS-2673:
CRS-2677:
CRS-2677:
CRS-2672:
CRS-2672:
CRS-2676:
CRS-2676:
CRS-2673:
CRS-2673:
CRS-2677:
CRS-2677:
CRS-2672:
CRS-2672:
CRS-2676:
CRS-2676:
Attempting to stop 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer'
Attempting to stop 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet'
Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer' succeeded
Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet' succeeded
Attempting to start 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'dancer'
Attempting to start 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'comet'
Start of 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'dancer' succeeded
Start of 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'comet' succeeded
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Attempting to stop 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'dancer'
Attempting to stop 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'comet'
Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'dancer' succeeded
Stop of 'ora.raccdb1.backup.svc' on 'comet' succeeded
Attempting to start 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer'
Attempting to start 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet'
Start of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'dancer' succeeded
Start of 'ora.raccdb1.crmsvc.svc' on 'comet' succeeded
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