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 Install Oracle Database 11g R2 on Linux using Oracle ASM - (OL5) — (17-January-2012)
The article described in this newsletter is a comprehensive guide for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on the Oracle Linux 5 (OL5) operating environment using Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and Oracle Restart. Oracle ASM provides a virtualization layer between the database and storage so that multiple disks can be treated as a single disk group and disks can be dynamically added or removed while keeping databases online. The example database created in this guide will use Oracle ASM for all physical database file storage (data files, control files, online redo log files, Fast Recovery Area). In previous releases, Oracle ASM was installed as part of the Oracle Database installation. With Oracle Database 11g Release 2, Oracle ASM is part of an Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, either for a cluster, or for a standalone server. This guide demonstrates how to create a single instance (non-RAC) database using Oracle ASM and therefore will require Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server to be installed before the Oracle Database software. Oracle Restart is another component of Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server that will be used in this guide. Starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the dbstart and dbshut scripts that were used to automate database startup and shutdown in previous Oracle versions are deprecated. Oracle now recommends to configure Oracle Database with the Oracle Restart feature to automatically restart the database, the listener, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), and other Oracle components after a hardware or software failure or when the database host computer restarts. The full version of this article can be found at the following location. http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Linux/LINUX_22.shtml ---------------------------- Jeffrey M. Hunter, OCP Sr. Database Administrator jhunter@idevelopment.info http://www.idevelopment.info ---------------------------- |