Work with Unix admin to prepare Servers for Oracle installation.

Unix SA task involves:

Installing Linux
creating oracle user and dba group.
Allocate Storage for Oracle data,Redo and control files.
Configure OS Kernel Parameters for Shared memory, Semaphores in /etc/sysctl.conf
Install Linux Packages/RPMs as per Oracle installation docs.

Oracle DBA tasks for Database Software installation:

Download and unzip the database software (linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip & li
nux.x64_11gR2_database_2of2.zip)
$ cd database
$ sh runInstaller
Specify Oracle Base and Oracle Home software location.
Select Database Edition ( Enterprise versus Standard edition )
Installer will do a prerequisite check and give warning if anything thing is mis
sing.
Installer will prompt to run root.sh on which is run by unix SA s as root user.
After this we can use DBCA to create new RAC databases.