“The following procedure is a step-by-step guide (Cookbook) with
tips and information for installing Oracle Database 10g with Real
Application Cluster (RAC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced
Server 3. This article covers Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS),
Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and FireWire-based
Shared Storage.“The primary objective of this article in it’s current version
is to demonstrate a quick installation of Oracle 10g with RAC on RH
AS 3. For example, I will not go too much into details about
Automatic Storage Management (ASM), but I will show how to
configure a couple ASM disks and how to tell Oracle to use it.
However, I’ve plans to add more information to this article in the
future, for example, tuning RAC, optimizing newer Linux versions
for Oracle 10g, adding nodes dynamically to a running cluster and
much more. Basically, this article is a work in progress…”