Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure Installation on Solaris 11 standalone

In this article i will demonstrate Installation of  Oracle 12c grid Infrastructure software on  oracle Solaris 11 - X86 (64-bit) and creation of 12c Database on ASM Disk group.

Step-By-Step actions:

1) Download software for Solaris X86-64 Bit architecture.
2) Configure OS perquisites.
3) Install Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure software.
4) Install 12c RDBMS software and create database on ASM Storage.

Configuration of OS Pre-requistes:

• create OS user and group
• create directories for software and change permissions accordingly
• configure kernel parameters
• set proper display variable
• start Installation

- create OS user ad group

- 

root@solaris11:~#groupadd dba
root@solaris11:~#useradd -g dba -d /export/home/ora12c -m ora12c
 

- create directory structure

root@solaris11:~#mkdir -p /ora1/grid    [GI Home]
root@solaris11:~#mkdir -p /ora1/ora12c   [RDBMS Home]
root@solaris11:~#chmod -R 775 /ora1/grid
root@solaris11:~#chown -R ora11g:dba /ora1/grid
root@solaris11:~#chmod -R 775 /ora1/ora12c
root@solaris11:~#chown -R ora11g:dba /ora1/ora12c
 

- configure kernel parameters:

root@solaris11:~# projadd ora12c
root@solaris11:~# cat /etc/user_attr
#
# The system provided entries are stored in different files
# under "/etc/user_attr.d".  They should not be copied to this file.
#
# Only local changes should be stored in this file.
# This line should be kept in this file or it will be overwritten.
#
root@solaris11:~# vi /etc/user_attr
root@solaris11:~# cat /etc/user_attr
#
# The system provided entries are stored in different files
# under "/etc/user_attr.d".  They should not be copied to this file.
#
# Only local changes should be stored in this file.
# This line should be kept in this file or it will be overwritten.
#
ora12c::::project=ora12c
root@solaris11:~# 

- Add listed above entry in file /etx/user_attr

 

- login with ora12c user in other terminal and execute the following commands:

root@solaris11:~# prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -v 4gb -r -i project ora12c
root@solaris11:~# projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4gb,deny)" ora12c
root@solaris11:~# 

root@solaris11:~# cat /etc/project 
system:0::::
user.root:1::::
noproject:2::::
default:3::::
group.staff:10::::
ora11g:100::::project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4294967296,deny)
root@solaris11:~# 
 

- Install package pkg://install/library/motif. If you do not Install this package runInstaller will not work

- Configure OS Disks

  

I have added 2 disks for 2 ASM diskgroups (1 - GI and 2 - DATA)

root@solaris11:~# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c7t0d0  (OS Disk)
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@0,0
       1. c7t2d0 
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@2,0 ( GI Disk)
       2. c7t3d0 
          /pci@0,0/pci8086,2829@d/disk@3,0  ( DATA Disk)
Specify disk (enter its number): 2
selecting c7t3d0
[disk formatted]
No Solaris fdisk partition found.


FORMAT MENU:
        disk       - select a disk
        type       - select (define) a disk type
        partition  - select (define) a partition table
        current    - describe the current disk
        format     - format and analyze the disk
        fdisk      - run the fdisk program
        repair     - repair a defective sector
        label      - write label to the disk
        analyze    - surface analysis
        defect     - defect list management
        backup     - search for backup labels
        verify     - read and display labels
        save       - save new disk/partition definitions
        inquiry    - show disk ID
        volname    - set 8-character volume name
        !     - execute , then return
        quit
format> p
WARNING - This disk may be in use by an application that has
   modified the fdisk table. Ensure that this disk is
   not currently in use before proceeding to use fdisk.
format> fdiks
`fdiks' is not expected.
format> fdisk
No fdisk table exists. The default partition for the disk is:

  a 100% "SOLARIS System" partition

Type "y" to accept the default partition,  otherwise type "n" to edit the
 partition table.
y
format> p


PARTITION MENU:
        0      - change `0' partition
        1      - change `1' partition
        2      - change `2' partition
        3      - change `3' partition
        4      - change `4' partition
        5      - change `5' partition
        6      - change `6' partition
        7      - change `7' partition
        select - select a predefined table
        modify - modify a predefined partition table
        name   - name the current table
        print  - display the current table
        label  - write partition map and label to the disk
        ! - execute , then return
        quit
partition> p
Current partition table (default):
Total disk cylinders available: 4344 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders        Size            Blocks
  0 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  1 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  2     backup    wu       0 - 4343       33.28GB    (4344/0/0) 69786360
  3 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  4 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  5 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  6 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  7 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  8       boot    wu       0 -    0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)       16065
  9 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0



partition> l

Ready to label disk, continue? Ready to label disk, continue? y

partition> 

partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 4344 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders        Size            Blocks
  0 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  1 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  2     backup    wu       0 - 4343       33.28GB    (4344/0/0) 69786360
  3 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  4 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  5 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  6 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  7 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0
  8       boot    wu       0 -    0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)       16065
  9 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0

partition> 0
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders        Size            Blocks
  0 unassigned    wm       0               0         (0/0/0)           0

Enter partition id tag[unassigned]: 
Enter partition permission flags[wm]: 
Enter new starting cyl[0]: 10
Enter partition size[0b, 0c, 10e, 0.00mb, 0.00gb]: 33gb
partition> l
Ready to label disk, continue? y

partition> 

 

=> Similarly format  another disk
=> change ownership of both the disks

root@solaris11:~#chown ora12c:dba /dev/rdsk/c7t2d0s0
root@solaris11:~#chown ora12c:dba /dev/rdsk/c7t3dos0

Make sure the ora12c is owner for these decives:

root@solaris11:/dev/rdsk# ls -lhL /dev/rdsk/c7t2d0s0
crw-r-----   1 ora12c   dba      206, 128 Aug 14 10:57 /dev/rdsk/c7t2d0s0
root@solaris11:/dev/rdsk# ls -lhL /dev/rdsk/c7t3d0s0
crw-r-----   1 ora12c   dba      206, 192 Aug 25 09:00 /dev/rdsk/c7t3d0s0
root@solaris11:/dev/rdsk#

 

 - Configure the display variable:

- Start Installation of Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure:

>> Follow the screenshots:

Installation of GRID Infrastructure completed successfully. Create additional diskgroup DATA for creating database.

Installation of 12c RDBMS Oracle Home and creation of database:

>> RunInstaller

Installation of 12c Grid Infrastructure and 12c RDBMS Installation with creation of database completed.

Thanks for reading.

regards,
X A H E E R