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Bryan
Hopefully you've logged those VIP failover issues as bugs. ;)
Gong back to Luca's original question, depending on your configuration NIC bonding may not be the best possible path for you. I know in some of our testing certain OS's didn't work well with NIC bonding. If you find yourself in that situation, you can always fall back on the CLUSTER_INTERCONNECTS parameter.
Pete
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2006 8:06 AM
To: Luca.Canali_at_cern.ch; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: RAC 10g interconnect resilient configuration
Luca,
I would highly recommend anyone setting up RAC to using bonding for the interconnect.
We have seen problems with the VIP not failing over properly in certain circumstances.
Dell has a good document that describes the NIC bonding located here:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/appora10/linEM64T/en/index.ht m
Bryan Thomas
Senior Performance Consultant
Performance Tuning Corp.
http://www.perftuning.com
Email: bthomas_at_perftuning.com
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
On Behalf Of Luca Canali
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:53 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RAC 10g interconnect resilient configuration
Hi,
I am trying to find a good HA configuration for the interconnect network
of RAC on Linux (10gR2 on RHEL 3). I have redundant switches and NICs
for the interconnect. From my tests and from Oracle documentation I see
that RAC can handle network (switch) failures, by simply bypassing the
failed network, while unfortunately 10gR2 clusterware can only be
configured to use 1 network (if that fails all RAC nodes but one go
down).
From metalink Note:220970.1 I found a reference to using NIC bonding
(unfortunately the link to the doc is broken, which is not a good start
for an HA doc).
I wonder whether implementing bonding is a good idea for the RAC
interconnect, besides the extra complexity, I am afraid of loosing
scalability regarding RAC (cache fusion) being able to load balance over
the NICs (as it does in the 'normal' configuration).
Any thoughts/ experiences to share on this?
Thanks,
L.
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