Oracle 10g VE
This is just a listing of steps taken to create a fully functional Oracle container.
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Create the container on the host system
vzctl create 1001 --ostemplate centos-4-i386-default vzctl set 1001 --userpasswd root:password --save vzctl set 1001 --hostname ve-oracle.example.com --save vzctl set 1001 --ipadd 192.168.0.62 --save
Reset resource limits
I decided to have max limits to avoid problems during installation. Once the installation is done and the system left running for some time, these limits should be adjusted.
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Note: setting the UBC limits to "unlimited" value like below can only be done on a trusted single-container machine, and can create problems. For more info about UBC, see Resource shortage and UBC. |
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Warning: The above UBC values might not be consistent; see UBC consistency check. |
vzctl set 1001 --kmemsize unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --lockedpages unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --privvmpages unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --shmpages unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numproc unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numtcpsock unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numflock unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numpty unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numsiginfo unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --tcpsndbuf unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --tcprcvbuf unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --othersockbuf unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --dgramrcvbuf unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numothersock unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --dcachesize unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numfile unlimited --save vzctl set 1001 --numiptent unlimited --save
Or you can set these limits in your /etc/vz/conf/1001.conf file:
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Warning: The above UBC values might not be consistent; see UBC consistency check. |
# Primary parameters AVNUMPROC="unlimited" NUMPROC="unlimited" NUMTCPSOCK="unlimited" NUMOTHERSOCK="unlimited" VMGUARPAGES="unlimited" # Secondary parameters KMEMSIZE="unlimited" TCPSNDBUF="unlimited" TCPRCVBUF="unlimited" OTHERSOCKBUF="unlimited" DGRAMRCVBUF="unlimited" OOMGUARPAGES="unlimited" # Auxiliary parameters LOCKEDPAGES="unlimited" SHMPAGES="unlimited" PRIVVMPAGES="unlimited" NUMFILE="unlimited" NUMFLOCK="unlimited" NUMPTY="unlimited" NUMSIGINFO="unlimited" DCACHESIZE="unlimited" PHYSPAGES="unlimited" NUMIPTENT="unlimited"
Start the container
vzctl start 1001
Update /etc/resolv.conf on the container
Put the following into your container's /etc/resolv.conf:
search example.com nameserver <ip address of your name server>
Install Required Packages
vzyum 1001 install binutils compat-db gcc gcc-c++ glibc \ glibc-common libstdc++ libstdc++-devel gnome-libs make \ pdksh sysstat libaio xscreensaver openmotif21 xorg-x11-xfs \ usbutils urw-fonts shared-mime-info perl-libwww-perl \ perl-XML-Parser perl-URI perl-HTML-Tagset perl-HTML-Parser \ patch lvm2 intltool libIDL libart_lgpl libbonobo xterm \ libcap libcroco libgnomecanvas libexif libgnomecups \ libgnomeprint22 libsoup libwnck libxklavier
Check the following rpms are installed on the container
vzctl exec 1001 rpm -q binutils gcc gcc-c++ glibc gnome-libs \ libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make pdksh sysstat xscreensaver libaio
Add Oracle User/Group
vzctl exec 1001 /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall vzctl exec 1001 /usr/sbin/groupadd dba vzctl exec 1001 /usr/sbin/useradd -m -g oinstall -G dba oracle vzctl exec 1001 id oracle
Set Password for the Oracle user
vzctl exec 1001 passwd oracle
Create Directories for Oracle Home/Data and the download directory
vzctl exec 1001 mkdir /home/oracle/10gR2_db vzctl exec 1001 mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 vzctl exec 1001 mkdir /u01/app/oracle/oradata vzctl exec 1001 chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle /home/oracle/10gR2_db vzctl exec 1001 chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle /home/oracle/10gR2_db vzctl exec 1001 ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.3 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
Put these values in /etc/sysctl.conf on the HN
Put these values in /etc/sysctl.conf on the HN:
kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 536870912 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 65536 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default=262144 net.core.wmem_default=262144 net.core.rmem_max=262144 net.core.wmem_max=262144
Then execute on the HN the following command:
/sbin/sysctl -p
At this point the container is ready for Oracle installation.
We take a backup of the container at this point in case we need to rebuild the
system or do a clean Oracle install.
Shutdown the container and take a backup
vzctl stop 1001 cd /u01/backups tar czpvf ve-1001-preOracle.tar.gz /vz/private/1001/ /etc/vz/conf/1001.conf
Start the container again
vzctl start 1001
Put oracle distro into the container
Copy the downloaded Oracle zip file to the container and change its ownership to "oracle" on the container.
cp /u01/software/10201_database_linux32.zip /vz/private/1001/home/oracle/10gR2_db/ vzctl exec 1001 chown oracle:oinstall /home/oracle/10gR2_db/10201_database_linux32.zip
Start installation
Now login as oracle on the ve-1001, and run the following commands:
cd /home/oracle/10gR2_db unzip 10201_database_linux32.zip cd database/ export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 export DISPLAY=192.168.0.149:0
Make sure you can run xterm, then:
./runInstaller
When prompted to run scripts as root. Login as root and execute
export DISPLAY=192.168.0.149:0 /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/root.sh
Update oracle's profile with the following
cd vi /home/oracle/.bashrc export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH export ORACLE_SID=orcl
Delete installation files (optional)
cd /home/oracle/10gR2_db rm -rf database
Time to take another backup of the container on the hardware node.
This backup will allow you to restore the container to the point where no database has yet been created.
vzctl stop 1001 cd /u01/backups tar czpvf ve-1001-postOracleSoftware.tar.gz \ /vz/private/1001/ /etc/vz/conf/1001.conf
Start the container
vzctl start 1001
Login as oracle and create the database
export DISPLAY=192.168.0.149:0 dbca
Create listener
netca
Now take another backup on the HN node
vzctl stop 1001 cd /u01/backups tar czpvf ve-1001-postOracleDatabase.tar.gz \ /vz/private/1001/ /etc/vz/conf/1001.conf