Specify Hardware Cluster Installation Mode

This page appears if Universal Installer detects a cluster system on which the product can be installed.

Universal Installer displays this page with the Cluster Installation option selected when you are installing your Oracle products into a new Oracle home in an Oracle Real Application Clusters environment. Select Non Cluster Installation if you want to perform a single node non-cluster installation within your Oracle RAC environment. These options are disabled if an existing home is selected.

The list box on this page contains the nodes available in the current cluster. Select the cluster nodes that you want to use for installation. By default, the first node in the list box (the local node) is selected; you may not de-select the default.

When you click Next, each selected node is tested for the following conditions:

Network reachability: Tests whether the remote cluster nodes are up and running.
Network configuration: Tests whether the remote cluster nodes are properly network-configured and user equivalence exists between the nodes. For more information refer to refer to the Oracle Universal Installer Concepts Guide.

If all selected nodes are available, the installation process continues to the next step. If a node (or nodes) is not available, the page is re-displayed with a Status column indicating the node's status: "Available," "Node not reachable," "Network not configured," etc. You must fix the problem or choose another set of nodes in order to proceed.

If any of the remote nodes is unreachable, check if those nodes are up and running and if they are properly network configured. If either the inventory or the Oracle home is not writable, check for the appropriate permissions on the remote nodes for these directories.

For more information about using OUI to install in a cluster environment, refer to the Oracle Universal Installer Concepts Guide.