# useradd -u 502 -g oinstall -G dba,asmdba,oper oracleħ- Shared disks are prepared for RAC and formatted with oracleasm tool like following steps. ~]# vi /etc/security/nfĦ- Create Oracle user, change password and their groups as follows. ~]# chkconfig iptables offĥ- Set the Oracle user’s limits as follows. ~]# chkconfig ntpd onĤ- Firewall must be disabled and turned off. OPTIONS="-x -u ntp:ntp -p /var/run/ntpd.pid" Thus, date and time of 2 nodes is set by NTP and they are synchronized by NTP Server. _local_port_range = 9000 65500ģ- The NTP service is configured and restarted as follows. Yum install elfutils-libelf-devel-0*x86_64*Ģ-Kernel parameters are set as follows. Yum install glibc-2*i686* nss-softokn-freebl-3*i686* ~]# yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall yum install binutils-2*x86_64* Or you can install following yum packages instead of preinstall package. ~]# yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall If you will install Oracle RAC 11g 11.2.0.4 then install following preinstall package. ~]# yum install oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall.x86_64 If you will install Oracle RAC 12c 12.1 then install following preinstall package. ~]# yum install oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall.x86_64 If you will install Oracle RAC 12c 12.2 then install following preinstall package. The following operations are performed on the Linux server to install Oracle RAC. Oracle Linux 7.6 Step by Step Installation on VirtualBox -2 If you don’t know Oracle linux installation, you can read following article. The list of VIP, Interconnect IP and SCAN IPs for RAC Installation are as follows. To install 2 node RAC Database on linux Servers informations are like following. If you have read above article, then we can start installation of Oracle RAC. What is the Oracle RAC and Architecture of Real Application Cluster If you don’t know what is the Oracle RAC and RAC Architecture, read following article to understand what is the Oracle RAC. I will explain the installation of Oracle RAC ( Real Application Cluster ) on Linux which is High availability solution of Oracle in this tutorial series.