Installing Oracle11gR2 Standalone Instance on ASM with Grid

Grid is like automated restart using HAS (High Availability Service/Server) in order to auto-restart listener, ASM and database if so required – kind of like a trimmed down version of Oracle RAC. If you have ASM mount points or raw devices properly configured, run the grid/runInstaller and just follow the prompts – self explanatory. Don’t …

Stop and Start CRS

After installation, you must first stop the Oracle Restart stack to modify the software installed in your Grid home. For example, if you want to apply a one-off patch or modify any of the DLLs used by Oracle Restart or Oracle ASM, then you must follow these steps to stop and restart the Oracle Restart …

Deinstalling Oracle 11g R2 Standalone Instance on Linux

Single instance installations can be dropped using the deinstall script in the $ORACLE_HOME/deinstall directory. Grid can be dropped by using the grid deinstall/deinstall script. Grid deinstall will include a script to be executed as root. One thing to note is that grid deinstall is supposed to remove ASM – might not quite do it all …

Using vncserver

Install vnc Is it there? rpm -qa vnc If not then install it: yum install vnc Run vnc on server as root using vncserver, which asks for a password and will look like this: [root@bigdata ~]# vncserver xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority New ‘bigdata.localdomain:1 (root)’ desktop is bigdata.localdomain:1 Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup Starting applications specified in …