I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Oracle 11gR2 and play with some of the new features. Here are some instructions for getting a standalone instance up and running using ASM on a VMware virtual. Here is my virtual machine configuration:
- OEL5 (basic server install)
- 1.5GB Memory 1GB swap
- 10GB Disk w/4 partitions (not formatted) for ASM
- 1 Bridged NIC
The steps I followed for my installation are below.
- Setup the environment by following the prerequisites for installing Oracle 11gR2 on Linux.
- I created a separate user (oragrid) and groups (asmadmin, asmdba, asmoper) for the grid software
- Run the installer from your staging area
- I chose Install and Configure for Standalone
- Choose your language
- Create ASM Disk group
- You may have to change the Discovery Path to find your disks
- Choose External redundancy and select the candidate disks
- Create passwords (Note I did not follow Oracle’s recommendations)
- Select the operating system groups
- Specify install locations
- Create the inventory
- Go through prerequisite checks. I like the improvements here, and it will actually create fix scripts in some cases. I will ignore my warnings, as I know about them.
- Install summary
- After install you will need to run 2 scripts as root
- /u01/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
- [root@oracle1 CVU_11.2.0.1.0_oragrid]# /u01/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
Changing permissions of /u01/oraInventory.
Adding read,write permissions for group.
Removing read,write,execute permissions for world. - /u01/app/product/11.2.0/grid/root.sh
- Install of grid software complete. In the next post, we’ll install the database.
Changing groupname of /u01/oraInventory to oinstall.
The execution of the script is complete.
You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
Running Oracle 11g root.sh script...
The following environment variables are set as:
ORACLE_OWNER= oragrid
ORACLE_HOME= /u01/app/product/11.2.0/grid
Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:
Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ...
Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
Creating /etc/oratab file...
Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by
Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
Finished running generic part of root.sh script.
Now product-specific root actions will be performed.
2009-09-23 15:14:59: Checking for super user privileges
2009-09-23 15:14:59: User has super user privileges
2009-09-23 15:14:59: Parsing the host name
Using configuration parameter file: /u01/app/product/11.2.0/grid/crs/install/crs
config_params
Creating trace directory
LOCAL ADD MODE
Creating OCR keys for user 'oragrid', privgrp 'oinstall'..
Operation successful.
CRS-4664: Node oracle1 successfully pinned.
Adding daemon to inittab
CRS-4123: Oracle High Availability Services has been started.
ohasd is starting
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing advmutil.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing advmutil.bin.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing fsck.acfs.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing fsck.acfs.bin.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing mkfs.acfs.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing mkfs.acfs.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing mkfs.acfs.bin.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing mount.acfs.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing mount.acfs.bin.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing acfsdbg.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing acfsdbg.bin.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing acfsutil.
acfsroot: ACFS-9320: Missing acfsutil.bin.
acfsroot: ACFS-9301: ADVM/ACFS installation can not proceed:
acfsroot: ACFS-9302: No installation files found at /u01/app/product/11.2.0/grid
/install/usm/EL5/x86_64/2.6.18-8/2.6.18-8.el5-x86_64/bin.
oracle1 2009/09/23 15:15:35 /u01/app/product/11.2.0/grid/cdata/oracle1/b
ackup_20090923_151535.olr
Successfully configured Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server
Updating inventory properties for clusterware
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 3007 MB Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc
The inventory is located at /u01/oraInventory
'UpdateNodeList' was successful.
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