Step 2: Deploy the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home on the Destination Nodes

Before you begin the cloning procedure that is described in this section, ensure that you have completed the prerequisite tasks to create a copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, as described in the section titled "Preparing the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home for Cloning".

  1. On each destination node, deploy the copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home that you created in "Step 3: Create a Copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home", as follows:

    If you do not have a shared Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, then restore the copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home on each node in the destination cluster. Use the equivalent directory structure as the directory structure that was used in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home on the source node. Skip this step if you have a shared Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.

    For example, on Linux or UNIX systems, run commands similar to the following:

    [root@node1 root]# mkdir -p location_of_the_copy_of_the_Grid_home
[root@node1 root]# cd location_of_the_copy_of_the_Grid_home
[root@node1 crs]# tar -zxvf /gridHome.tgz

    In this example, location_of_the_copy_of_the_Grid_home represents the directory structure in which you want to install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, such as /u01/app/12.1.0/grid. Note that you can change the Grid home ___location as part of the clone process.

    On Windows systems, unzip the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home on the destination node in the equivalent directory structure as the directory structure in which the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home resided on the source node.

  2. If you have not already deleted unnecessary files from the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, then repeat step 2 in "Method 2: Create a Compressed Copy of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Home Using the -X Option".
  3. Create a directory for the Oracle Inventory on the destination node and, if necessary, change the ownership of all of the files in the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home to be owned by the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner and by the Oracle Inventory (oinstall privilege) group. If the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation owner is oracle, and the Oracle Inventory group is oinstall, then the following example shows the commands to do this on a Linux system: 
    [root@node1 crs]# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app

    When you run the preceding command on the Grid home, it clears setuid and setgid information from the Oracle binary. As expected, the command also clears setuid from the following binaries:

    Grid_home/bin/extjob
Grid_home/bin/jssu
Grid_home/bin/oradism

    The setuid information is properly set after you run the root.sh script at the end of the cloning procedure.

  4. It is important to remove any Oracle network files from the Grid_home directory on both the source and destination nodes before continuing.