{"id":1335,"date":"2007-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2007-11-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"rac-and-aix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/rac-and-aix\/","title":{"rendered":"RAC and AIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting aspects of working at my current site is that the DBAs don&#8217;t install Oracle. Yes, I know, and I&#8217;m not going to elaborate on that statement other than to say it&#8217;s a little frustrating and software management has become a much more interesting experience than I ever imagined it would be!<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to mention a particularly interesting moment today, though. When I was sitting beside &#8216;the installer&#8217; last week, I was perturbed when we were trying to install 9.2.0.1 and the Universal Installer prompted us to select additional nodes that were part of this cluster. Given that we don&#8217;t use RAC at all, I was worried. Still (and more fool me) I let it go and we carried on, leaving just the current node selected. I should have known. <\/p>\n<p>When someone attempted to STARTUP MIGRATE the first database to be patched today, this is what happened.<\/p>\n<pre>SQL&gt; startup migrate <br\/>ORACLE instance started. <br\/><br\/>Total System Global Area 2520746368 bytes <br\/>Fixed Size                   743808 bytes <br\/>Variable Size            2483027968 bytes <br\/>Database Buffers           33554432 bytes <br\/>Redo Buffers                3420160 bytes <br\/>ORA-32700: error occurred in DIAG Group Service <\/pre>\n<p>At which point they called me over. Mmmm, looks like RAC! Sure enough &#8230;.<\/p>\n<pre>SQL&gt; quit <br\/>Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - 64bit Production <br\/>With the Partitioning, <b>Real Application Clusters<\/b>, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options <br\/>JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production<\/pre>\n<p>A little more investigation on Metalink revealed this (from several Metalink notes, but this was from <a href=\"https:\/\/metalink.oracle.com\/metalink\/plsql\/f?p=130:14:1657640266597349688::::p14_database_id,p14_docid,p14_show_header,p14_show_help,p14_black_frame,p14_font:NOT,368916.1,1,1,1,helvetica\">368916.1<\/a>) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The AIX server is not part of a cluster but has the high availability HACMP software installed.<br \/>The Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) detects this and assumes RAC is being installed, even if it is not.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Time to relink the server without RAC, but that wasn&#8217;t successful either. Next blog, maybe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting aspects of working at my current site is that the DBAs don&#8217;t install Oracle. Yes, I know, and I&#8217;m not going to elaborate on that statement other than to say it&#8217;s a little frustrating and software management has become a much more interesting experience than I ever imagined it would be!&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/rac-and-aix\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RAC and AIX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1324,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/a-couple-of-surveys\/","url_meta":{"origin":1335,"position":0},"title":"A Couple of Surveys","date":"September 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I think it's interesting to see what other people are working with, so I thought I'd advertise a couple of online surveys.Kevin Closson's RAC Survey has been kicking around for a while now and the only reason I haven't participated is that we don't use RAC at all at my\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1336,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/rac-and-aix-continued\/","url_meta":{"origin":1335,"position":1},"title":"RAC and AIX &#8211; continued","date":"November 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"If I was to believe Metalink Note 368916.1 (see previous post), then the HACMP software must be installed on the server we were installing 9.2.0.8 on. However, having reviewed \/etc\/inittab and investigating whether cluster services were running, it looked like HACMP wasn't in use. We checked with one of our\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1363,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/murali-vallath\/","url_meta":{"origin":1335,"position":2},"title":"Murali Vallath","date":"December 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"When I blogged about Openworld, I decided not to mention one presentation at the time. I attended Murali Vallath's \"Oracle Parallel Query Feature in a RAC environment\" on Sunday afternoon. 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