Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11gR2 with ASM on Standalone Server
If you would like to experiment with Oracle ASM or Oracle Restart you will need to install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Oracle Grid Infrastructure can be installed for a cluster or a standalone server.
This document will detail the steps to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11gR2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 and assumes that devices have already been prepared for ASM.
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Building a simple server to provide DNS, DHCP and NTP to support Grid Naming Services
Oracle 11g Grid Infrastructure provides the ability to use DHCP for all private interconnect address, as well as most VIP address but it does not provide an optimal method for producing names for these address to external clients. Grid Naming Services provides a solution to the naming problem. GNS is linked to the companies DNS server to provide names private interconnect and VIP addresses.
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Preparing Drives for ASM using ASMLib
This document will detail the steps to configure disks for ASM and the installation of ASMLib on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 running in Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.2. The drives were created as shared drives. See the post: Creating Shared Drives in Oracle VM VirtualBox for more information on creating shared drives in Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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PRVF-5439: NTP daemon does not have slewing option “-x” set on node
When installing Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure either the cluster verify utility or the prerequisite checks find that the NTP daemon does not have the slewing option set.
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