Re: Help ? .... Installation of Oracle on Solaris 8 Sparc E250

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:36:48 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote:

>Steve Pierce wrote:
>
>> First of all, let me say I am new to both Solaris on Sparc and Oracle.
>>
>> What is the best practice for installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on a
>> SUN E250 dual USII 400 Mhz, 2 GB RAM, (4) 9GB internal, (4) 36 GB in
>> a StorEdge D2 Array.
>>
>> I learn very fast, but the only stipulations that the vendor has set
>> is the following, and I would like to know if anyone has a similar
>> setup or could help me make this work best in the long run.
>>
>> First of all, my plan is to Mirror the internal drives disk 0 to disk
>> 1 , disk 2 to disk 3, using Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1 (we don't have
>> the budget for Veritas VxFS right now)
>>
>> What is the best way to slice up the Solaris 8 OE (on the internal
>> disks) for Oracle ? Here is what my current plan based on my crash
>> course in Solaris ...
>>
>> Disk 0 (8.43 GB, mirrored to Disk 1)
>>
>> / 2 GB
>> swap 4 GB
>> /var 2.43 GB (rest of disk)
>> /metadb1 25 MB (DiskSuite State database)
>>
>> Disk 2 (8.43 GB, mirrored to Disk 3)
>>
>> /app/$ORACLE_HOME 3 GB
>> /export/home 1 GB
>> /tmp 2 GB
>> /usr 1 GB
>> /opt 1.43 GB (rest of disk)
>> /metadb2 25 MB (Disk Suite State Database)
>>
>> StorEdge D2 array (per the vendor's only recommendations)
>>
>> Disk 8 ( 33.92 GB, mirrored to Disk 9)
>>
>> /data1/home 1 GB (for specific vendor user scripts)
>> /data1/oradata 32.92 GB (rest of disk)
>> /metadb3 25 MB (Disk Suite State Database)
>>
>> Disk 10 ( 33.92 GB, mirrored to Disk 11)
>>
>> /data2/oradata all of disk
>> /metadb4 25 MB (Disk Suite State Database)
>>
>> Will this work, or should I make some adjustments?
>>
>> Thank you all for any input.
>>
>> Steve Pierce
>> spierce_at_sigecom.net
>
>Other than, as Karsten has noted, no place for /etc my only suggestion
>would be an additional 500MB for Oracle itself. 3GB might be a bit tight.
>
>If you don't know vi ... be sure to have someone show you around vi.
>
>But most importantly ... you MUST read and follow the installation
>instructions on the CD. Failure to do so will make Sybrand's concerns
>manifest themselves. If, during pre-installation, you have not created
>oinstall and dba UNIX groups, modified the kernel parameters in
>/etc/system, and rebooted the machine ... it will not work.
>
>Daniel Morgan
>

Thank you all for your suggetions. I do know vi and how to navigate SUN for the most part with my previous experience with Redhat and FreeBSD, but Orace on SPARC is new to me and just looking for some pointers. Thank you both for your suggestions and concerns, I have assured there is now a /etc directory and that the software vendor implementing the Reporting Solution using Oracle approves the system setup, I just wish they had a SOP to follow for stand-alone systems using their solution, rather than relying on the end user to dicate the machine setup ... you would think that since they wrote the software and tested in thier labs, they would know best the optimal system layout.

• Steve