This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes experiences gained while installing Oracle Database 11gR2 with Grid Infrastructure (GI). It covers the set up and installation process for these environments:

• Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with DASD
• Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with FCP/SCSI
• Setting up SLES11 with DASD
• Setting up SLES11 with FCP/SCSI disks
• Examples include the installation of the Grid Infrastructure, installation of a single instance database and installation of a two-node Real Application Cluster (RAC) database.

In all cases, we use UDEV rules for DASD and single path SCSI, and multipathing for multi-path SCSI to provide device persistency for ASM storage, not ASMLib.

Interested readers would include database consultants, installers, administrators, and system programmers. This is not meant to replace Oracle documentation, but to supplement it with our experiences while installing and using Oracle Database products. We made extensive uses of My Oracle Support notes.

Chapter 1. General information

Chapter 2. Installing Oracle 11g R2 on a Red Hat 5 Linux guest

Chapter 3. Installing Oracle 11gR2 on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server guest

Chapter 4. Required Kernel Parameters for Oracle (SLES & Red Hat)

Chapter 5. Installing Oracle grid for a single instance ASM system

Chapter 6. Installing Oracle database binaries

Chapter 7. Creating Oracle ASM disk groups

Chapter 8. Installing SQL*NET Client (netca)

Chapter 9. Creating an Oracle database using DBCA

Chapter 10. Oracle 11gR2 Real Application Cluster database installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5

Appendix A. Configuring Linux storage using DASD or FCP/SCSI

Appendix B. Oracle RAC Network Configuration

Appendix C. Oracle Grid and database cleanup script

Appendix D. Workarounds for known problems

Appendix E. Reference materials