E Directory Structure for Oracle Real Application Clusters Environments

This appendix describes the directory structures for Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) software environments. The topics in this appendix are:

Understanding the Oracle Real Application Clusters Directory Structure
Directory Structures for Oracle Real Application Clusters

E.1 Understanding the Oracle Real Application Clusters Directory Structure

When you install Oracle Database with Oracle RAC, all subdirectories are under a top-level Oracle base directory, which is named by default ORACLE_BASE. The ORACLE_HOME and ADMIN directories are also located under the Oracle base directory.

E.2 Directory Structures for Oracle Real Application Clusters

Table E-1 shows the hierarchical directory tree of a sample OFA-compliant database for Oracle RAC on Windows-based systems:

See Also:

Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide for further information about the ORACLE_HOME and ADMIN directories

Table E-1 Directory Structure for A Sample OFA-Compliant Windows Environment

Root	Second-Level	Third-Level	Fourth-Level	Description
x:\oracle_base				`c:\oracle` The default `ORACLE_BASE` directory.
	\%ORACLE_HOME%			`\ora11.1` The name of the Oracle home by default.
	\%ORA_CRS_HOME%			`\crs11.1` The name of the Oracle Clusterware home by default.
		\bin		Subtree for Oracle binaries.
		\network		Subtree for Oracle Net configuration files, including `tnsnames.ora,` listener.ora and `sqlnet.ora.`
		\srvm		`\admin` subdirectory.
			\admin	The Oracle RAC script `clustdb.sql` and initialization parameter files for database creation
		\database		A directory from previous releases containing initialization files pointing to the new directory location for parameter files: `ORACLE_BASE\admin\db_name\pfile`.
	\admin			Subtree for Oracle RAC database administration files
		\db_name		`db_name` database administration files for the instance identified by `sid`.
			\adhoc	Ad hoc SQL scripts.
			\adump	Audit files.
			\arch	Archived redo log files.
			\bdump	Background process trace files.
			\cdump	Core dump files.
			\create	Programs used to create the database.
			\exp	Database export files
			\pfile	Initialization parameter files
			\udump	User SQL trace files