Installation of Oracle 11g R1 (11.1.0.6) Real Application Cluster (RAC) Software on Linux (CentOS EL 4 Update 5 x86) for ASM_HOME

This document explains the step by step process of installing Oracle 11g R1 RAC for ASM using OUI.

Start the runInstaller command as oracle user from any one node after setting the ORACLE_BASE for this installation.

[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/asm
[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ 11g_database/database/runInstaller

    Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
    Xlib: No protocol specified
                                                                                                                           
    Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
 If you get the above error, please execute the below command as root and then start the runInstaller by connecting as oracle.

[root@node1-pub ~]# xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

I got the permission errors on the below files while executing the runInstaller. I worked around this issue by grating the execute privilege on the below files.

chmod u+x 11g_database/database/runInstaller

chmod u+x /home/oracle/11g_database/database/install/.oui

chmod u+x /home/oracle/11g_database/database/install/unzip

chmod u+x /tmp/database/runInstaller
chmod u+x /tmp/database/install/.oui
chmod u+x /tmp/database/install/unzip

Click Next


Select "Custom" and Click Next.


Click Next


Select all the nodes and Click Next


At this step, you should not receive any error. If you have configured the Pre-Installation steps correctly, then you will not get any errors. I get one warning here as you can see which is complaining about the low memory than required. I had only 512 MB ram and the required memory is 1GB but I would not worry about this warning and will check the status box.

Click Next



Click Next


Leave the Default values (dba, dba, dba) and Click Next


Select "Configure Automatic Storage Management" and Click Next


Click Install



Execute the mentioned script on all the nodes.





Click Exit




Click Exit



ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system

MEMORY_TARGET or MEMORY_MAX_TARGET, cannot be greater than the shared memory filesystem (/dev/shm) on your operating system.

For example, if the shared memory filesystem allocation on your system is 1 GB, but you set Memory Size (MEMORY_TARGET) to 2 GB, then you
receive the above error during instance startup:

So, I decided to create the ASM instances manually and setting MEMORY_TARGET init.ora parameter to 0. OK to this window and 'Cancel" the operation
to Exit out from dbca.  Simply run the root.sh scripts when prompted by next window and exit out from runInstaller. The installation is considered successful
but I still needed to configure ASM instance manually.

CREATE ASM Instance Manually:
[oracle@node1-pub dbs]$ orapwd file=orapw+ASM1 password=ChangeIt entries=5
[oracle@node1-pub dbs]$ 
 
[oracle@node1-pub dbs]$ cat init+ASM.ora
instance_type=asm
+ASM1.instance_name=+ASM1
+ASM2.instance_name=+ASM2
MEMORY_TARGET=0
cluster_database_instances=2
cluster_database=true
+ASM1.instance_number=1
+ASM2.instance_number=2
remote_login_passwordfile='SHARED'   SQL> create spfile='/u02/ocfs2/asm_spfile/spfile+ASM.ora' from pfile='/u01/app/asm/product/11gr1/dbs/init+ASM.ora';
 
File created.  
Update the init+ASM1.ora and init=ASM2.ora to add the pointer to the spfile.
  [oracle@node2-pub dbs]$ cat init+ASM2.ora
SPFILE='/u02/ocfs2/asm_spfile/spfile+ASM.ora' 
[oracle@node2-pub dbs]$ 

[oracle@node2-pub pfile]$ srvctl add asm -n node1-pub -i +ASM1 -o /u01/app/asm/product/11gr1 -p /u02/ocfs2/asm_spfile/spfile+ASM.ora
[oracle@node2-pub pfile]$ srvctl add asm -n node2-pub -i +ASM2 -o /u01/app/asm/product/11gr1 -p /u02/ocfs2/asm_spfile/spfile+ASM.ora
 
[oracle@node2-pub pfile]$ srvctl enable asm -n node1-pub -i +ASM1
[oracle@node2-pub pfile]$ srvctl enable asm -n node2-pub -i +ASM2  

Run the dbca again to add/create disk groups to the ASM instance.

[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ /u01/app/asm/product/11gr1/bin/dbca








Click "Finish" to exit out from dbca.
Verify that LISTENER and ASM instances are up and running and are properly registered with CRS.


CRS STACK STATUS AFTER THE INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION OF ASM
================================================================
  [oracle@node2-pub dbs]$ crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host        
------------------------------------------------------------
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....UB.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....pub.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....pub.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....pub.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node1-pub   
ora....SM2.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....UB.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....pub.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....pub.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
ora....pub.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    node2-pub   
[oracle@node2-pub dbs]$

[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM1
[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/asm/product/11gr1

[oracle@node1-pub ~]$ asmcmd
ASMCMD> ls
DATA/
FLASH/
ASMCMD> lsdg
State    Type    Rebal  Sector  Block       AU  Total_MB  Free_MB  Req_mir_free_MB  Usable_file_MB  Offline_disks  Name
MOUNTED  NORMAL  N         512   4096  1048576    199996   199810                0           99905              0  DATA/
MOUNTED  EXTERN  N         512   4096  1048576    199996   199901                0          199901              0  FLASH/
ASMCMD>

Now with the setup of ASM, next is to install the 11g R1 RAC for database home and create a RAC database.