PRM and Oracle Setup

In this section we'll configure PRM on a system running five instances of Oracle. There are many processes running for each Oracle instance but there is a unique identifier for each instance that uses the ORACLE_SID environment variable. On the system used in this example the five Oracle instances are: dwsbp1, dwarp1, dwmkp1, hrprd1 and dwcrtp1. We'll use these instance names during our configuration.

The first step we'll perform using xprm, the graphical interface of PRM, is to create PRM groups and assign shares. We have only four CPUs in this Superdome nPartition so we'll use only FSS and not PSET PRM groups as shown in Figure 18-14:

Figure 18-14. xprm Showing PRM Groups and FSS Shares

Figure 18-14 shows that we have ...

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