10g RAC Installation and Migration Enhancements

Oracle 10g offers several exciting enhancements for RAC installation and migration. First, as mentioned earlier in this chapter, 10g introduces Cluster Ready Services (CRS). Because CRS provides the needed clusterware for the 10g RAC environment, you must install CRS before installing the RAC database. After you have verified that the CRS stack has been successfully installed and is operational on each node, you are ready for the RDBMS install.

Local Versus Shared Install

As you noticed while installing the CRS_HOME, you also have the option to install the RDBMS or ORACLE_HOME in a shared or local environment. Again, installing in a shared environment is very much like installing in a single environment. ...

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