Creating a Cluster by Cloning Oracle Clusterware
This section explains how to create a cluster by cloning a successfully installed Oracle Clusterware environment and copying it to the nodes on the destination cluster. The procedures in this section describe how to use cloning for Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems. OCR and voting files are not shared between the two clusters after you successfully create a cluster from a clone.
For example, you can use cloning to quickly duplicate a successfully installed Oracle Clusterware environment to create a cluster. Figure 8-1 shows the result of a cloning procedure in which the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home on Node 1 has been cloned to Node 2 and Node 3 on Cluster 2, making Cluster 2 a new two-node cluster.
Figure 8-1 Cloning to Create an Oracle Clusterware Environment
Description of "Figure 8-1 Cloning to Create an Oracle Clusterware Environment"
The steps to create a cluster through cloning are as follows: