From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Jun 14 05:57:12 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5EAuvP29187 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:57:07 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i5EAul629151 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:56:57 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 718C372C65D; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:41:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30102-11; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:41:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id BA5D972C3EE; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:41:40 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:40:21 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 1781B72C3EB for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:40:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27932-84 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:40:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with SMTP id 7BE9772C3C9 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:40:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown (HELO medo.noip.com) (gogala@sbcglobal.net@66.159.153.6 with login) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2004 11:00:27 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 07:00:26 -0400 From: Mladen Gogala To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Oracle 10g RAC on Linux - hardware confusion #@$! Message-ID: <20040614110026.GA2598@medo.noip.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: (from Peter.Miller@cogent-dsn.com on Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:30:07 -0400) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.17 Lines: 31 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-archive-position: 2650 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: gogala@sbcglobal.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org On 06/14/2004 06:30:07 AM, Peter Miller wrote: > > The "Cluster" files need to be on shared disk system that is physically > connected to the instance servers - is this the case? Yes. Oracle RAC is so called "shared disk system" (in contrast to share-nothing systems), which means that it uses disks shared by two computers. Access to the disk is synchronized by DLM (= Distributed Lock Manager), which is a part of oracle RAC. Also, on Linux, oracle delivers the OS mechanism for two nodes to communicate over the private Ethernet connection. > > If so, can someone recommend a scaleable bit of hardware (preferable > Dell) that I can use with 2+ nodes to support the database files of the > RAC. He is a distinguished member of this group and he used to have a good web page at http://www.oracle-dba.com, but there is not much there these days. I dunno about the exact HW specification, but Joe Testa once wrote that he was working on RAC. > > If not, can someone please enlighten me. I specialized in enlightenment. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------