The determination of Oracle binary support for Real Application Clustering is made during installation on all supported platforms. Thus, an installation made for a single instance database will not support creation of RAC by default. However, you can modify the binaries to support these features after installation. This article details the steps to modify your Oracle binaries to support Oracle RAC.

1. Logon to your Oracle database server as the Oracle software owner.

2. Change directory to your ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib.

cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib

3. Use make to recreate your Oracle binaries with the option rac_on

make -f ins_rdbms.mk rac_on

4. Change directory to your ORACLE_HOME/bin.

5. Execute the utility relink with option all, to recreate all binary files.

relink all

6. This completes altering your Oracle RDBMS binaries to support Oracle RAC features.

Larry J. Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
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