Re: Oracle Rac and IBM P-series machines

It just works and I think (!) one of our listers has that configuration on AIX.
(But that is across the street!).

There are many ways to make that work depending on the distance, you may have to use dark fiber/DWDM or array mirroring.

On 2/14/06, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) <Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us> wrote:
> That was my question. What do I need to make it work, or, can it work?
>
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> Subject: RE: Oracle Rac and IBM P-series machines
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> Just curious, when you have two nodes a mile apart, what kind of network
> connectivity do you have? Particularly for the interconnect?
>
> Never really seriously looked into it...just curious.....
>
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> Subject: Re: Oracle Rac and IBM P-series machines
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> Tom:
>
> You didn't tell me the version. So I will be a generalist here.
>
>
> > Is it true I would need to use RAW devices because of RAC? "Normal"
> > file systems would not work for RAC.
>
> Yep. Another option is to use ASM (in 10g)
>
> > And can the machines be geographically apart from each other (like
> > within a mile)?
> >
> > Last I heard the physical distance was a problem, but things change
> > fast around here.
>
> Within a mile is possible. I know few people who are using that.
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