RESOLUTION --- RAC windows

Thanks to those that did respond to my question. I did talk to Oracle about this and I was on the right track.  

Basically, Oracle RAC uses its own Clusterware. The shared storage ( SAN, shared SCSI, iSCSI, etc) must be visible in Disk Management on all nodes for this to work. This precludes the use of disks being managed by MSCS. However, Oracle RAC and MSCS can co-exist on the same nodes - they just can't share any resources, such as disks.  

The official 10gR2 Clusterware Installation document is:

Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Microsoft Windows Part Number B14207-04  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ)
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:46 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RAC windows  

I am looking into RAC on a Windows system. Right now we have two servers, 1 active and 1 passive, using Microsoft's clustering services to mange the cluster. This works fine with Oracle v9 Fail Safe. It seems to me that for RAC, both nodes need to be active (to take advantage of RAC). Is my thinking correct? I also read the Oracle has a clustering software built into the software - would this be a better way to manage the cluster?  

If using RAC on Windows, can you point me in the correct direction?  

Thanks.  

John

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