Re: 9i RAC on NetApp

On an installation on a Tru64 Cluster, with the Cluster-File-System, there *is* only 1 ORACLE_HOME, shared by both nodes. I don't see why it cannot be done on another platforms, provided that the platform allows the file-system to be mounted on both nodes concurrently.

Hemant
At 03:53 PM 22-07-02 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm looking at the NetApp install procedure for 9i RAC and it says that
>$ORACLE_HOME is not to be shared across the cluster nodes. Why? Is this
>really impossible? I understand that the files under the
>$ORACLE_BASE/admin/ORACLE_SID/?dump directories (and other files) should not
>be shared but is there any REAL reason the executables can't be shared? Has
>anyone done this on NetApp? Curious.
>
>
>Steve Orr
>Bozeman, Montana
>
>(P.S. Walt and I are playing together on a NetApp 820c eval box for a month
>so we're RAC'ing on the toaster too.)
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