Grid Infrastructure Installation

1. As oracle user execute run Installer, select " Install and Configure Grid Infrastructure for a cluster " and click next

2. Select Advanced Installation and click on next

3. By default English language will be selected, click next if it is OK

4. Enter the cluster-name, scan-name and scan-port and uncheck configure GNS and click next

5. Select the hostnames and vip names if not already populated, if only node1 details are populated then click on add two enter node2 details

6. Click on SSH Connectivity to test the ssh setup

7. Verify the interface names, IP addresses and interface types and click next

8. Select ASM as storage for OCR and Voting Disk and click next

9. Enter a disk group name and select the ASM disk for that disk group. Select the redundancy as External if no failure groups to be configured.

TIP: For a brief note on Failure Groups refer to Oracle ASM Administration Guide - Chapter 1 - Introduction to Automatic Storage Management - Section - About Mirroring and Failure Groups

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e18951/asmcon.htm#OSTMG94058

10. Set a password for ASM accounts and click next

11. Select do not use IPMI and click next

12. Select a group for asm accounts and click next

13. Enter the locations for Oracle Base and Grid Home and click next

14. Save Response File and click on Finish

Remote attach home failed during installation, I manually ran the script provided in the installation window after the installation

Run root.sh in the order specified

Ensure that the installation was successful

Check the status of cluster resources

Everything is up and running, Oracle did its job well.

That's it !!!

Regards

Charan