How to manually Convert 10g Single-Instance database to 10g RAC

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Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.1.0.2 and later   [Release: 10.1 and later ]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This note applies to all Unix platforms.

Goal

This article provides a method to convert a Single Instance 10g database to a RAC 10g database. It can be used for 10gR2 or 11gR1, too.

Solution

Following are the steps:

1. on the first node


Make a full database backup of the single-instance database before you change anything.

1) Install Oracle Clusterware on all nodes you intend to have as cluster members, following the directions in Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 (Oracle