Cloning Grid Infrastructure

Cloning Grid Infrastructure

What Is Cloning?
Cloning is the process of copying an existing Oracle Clusterware installation to a different location. It:

• Requires a successful installation as a baseline
• Can be used to create new clusters
• Cannot be used to remove nodes from the cluster
• Does not perform the operating system prerequisites to an installation
• Is useful to build many clusters in an organization
  

The cloning procedure is responsible for the work that would have been done by the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) utility. It does not automate the prerequisite work that must be done on each node before installing the Oracle software.
Benefits of Cloning Grid Infrastructure
The following are some of the benefits of cloning Oracle Grid Infrastructure. It:

• Can be completed in silent mode from a Secure Shell (SSH) terminal session
• Contains all patches applied to the original installation
• Can be done very quickly
• Is a guaranteed method of repeating the same installation on multiple clusters

Objectives

• Describe the cloning process
• Describe the clone.pl script and its variables
• Perform a clone of Oracle Grid Infrastructure to a new cluster
  
• Extend an existing cluster by cloning
  
  

Topics

1. Preparing the Oracle Clusterware Home for Cloning
2. Preparing the Oracle Clusterware Home for Cloning
   
3. Cloning to Extend Oracle Clusterware to More Nodes

Refer the links below:

Cloning Oracle Clusterware