Installing Oracle 11gR2 RAC on Linux on System z

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.