RE: Dell-Oracle-Linux: Anyone else run this...because its not working for us!

>>turned off RAID and run a split SCSI backplane

Oh man Steve that is exactly what we have thought about doing....sad, no lame! If you look at my original post you notice that 2 prec3 cards and one of the PV's was used successfully in the config you described above in years past on SuSE 7.2 O8i...we have recycled this hardware now RH3 09i.

For those playing at home I have two prod db's running on failover servers on internal disks. I have two Dell PV's with about 1TB or more of storage just sitting there and 3 idle prod db servers. Dell support has been pathetic...my SA yelling at them. We have obvious MegaRaid errors for the perc cards they support(ed) and sold us but they are still ruling out hardware.

Oh it gets worse...in the process to ruling out the hardware the want to "engage" Oracle Support (help) on this. So Oracle can run IO test on our servers.

I can't wait, hope and expect Oracle Support will tell them "is a not an Oracle issue...go away"?

 :o|

Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Steve Farmer Sent: Thu 11/17/2005 5:13 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Dell-Oracle-Linux: Anyone else run this...because its not working for us!  

Hi

We run this config and had problems with the machine spewing "disk errors" and stopping .. I turned off RAID and run a split SCSI backplane config now.. much faster and very reliable

Regards
Streve
At 3:25 PM -0500 16/11/05, david hill wrote:
>Hi Chris
>
>I have a bunch of different Dell servers all running RHEL 3, running
>nice and smooth, no hiccups whatsoever
>A few 2650's, 2600's, and 1750's
>
>Running RAC with 9.2.0.6, with about a TB worth of DB's
>
>All the servers came with the PERC 4, It sucks. But I tried a few
>different raid controllers on RHEL, they were all pretty bad
>
>My advice get a SAN, and with RHEL 3 it super easy to boot from san,
>diskless servers.
>Eliminate the PERC and megaraid all together.
>
>David Hill
>Oracle DBA
>
>
>

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