This chapter describes how to clone an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home and use the cloned home to create a cluster. You perform the cloning procedures in this chapter by running scripts in silent mode. The cloning procedures are applicable to Linux and UNIX systems. Although the examples in this chapter use Linux and UNIX commands, the cloning concepts and procedures apply generally to all platforms.
Note:
This chapter assumes that you are cloning an Oracle Clusterware 12c installation configured as follows:
No Grid Naming Service (GNS)
No Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification (IPMI)
Voting file and Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) are stored in Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Single Client Access Name (SCAN) resolves through DNS
This chapter contains the following topics: