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

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Jeffrey M. Hunter, OCP
Sr. Database Administrator
jhunter@idevelopment.info
http://www.idevelopment.info
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  Install Oracle Database 11g R2 on Linux - (RHEL 6) — (02-January-2012)

The following article provides a comprehensive overview and describes the steps 
necessary to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on the Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) operating environment. Installing the Oracle 
Database software is not a difficult task by any means; however, critical 
prerequisite tasks and key decisions will be discussed during the setup and 
configuration in this guide that will have a great impact on your installation. 

http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Oracle/DBA_tips/Linux/LINUX_23.shtml

This guide will include instructions for installing and configuring the Linux 
operating system, installing the Oracle Database software, creating an example 
database, managing Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control, automatically 
starting and stopping the instance through reboots, and further enhancing the 
Oracle environment by installing custom DBA management scripts.

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Jeffrey M. Hunter, OCP
Sr. Database Administrator
jhunter@idevelopment.info
http://www.idevelopment.info
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