Re: 10g RAC with Veritas SF

My last customer configuration, Solaris 10, RAC + Veritas SFRAC was suggested by an Oracle Consulting guy. He actually said,

Use Veritas instead of Clusterware

!!

On 11/30/06, fairlie rego <fairlie_r_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I totally believe that this "reproduce without clusterware"
> is a scare tactic. I wonder if anybody has actually been told this.
>
> I have just worked with a big enterprise customer using this configuration
> and Oracle actually bends backwards to help them out. They have meetings
> with the "VOS" team every month and during all the node evictions they had
> more
> than a year ago because of incorrect values of css misscounts etc.. they
> were
> never told to de-install Veritas.
>
> A Monte I also believe you should also check that the oproc daemon is not
> running
> since you have Veritas managing the cluster and the css misscount is set
> to a high
> value like 900 seconds.
>
> -Fairlie
>
> *Alex Gorbachev <gorbyx_at_gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> When I was working with 10gCRS+VCS - we disabled autostart of CRS
> resources that we wanted to control from VCS. We than had to write our own
> VCS agents that monitored status of resources based on CRS command line
> utilities This is the approach Oracle was ready to support after somewhat
> long discussions.
>
> Regarding support requesting to reproduce the problem without vendor
> clusterware. I didn't experience that but I can believe this might be a
> dirty trick of support.
> Just an example - at some point we even got together on the "round table"
> with support from 3 sides - Veritas, HP and Oracle. Of course, that's won't
> happen for regular issues and relatively small customers but big enterprises
> can get enough support if they know where to push.
>
> On 11/30/06, amonte <ax.mount_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I installed this week RAC on Veritas SFRAC.
> >
> > Had a problem though.In preinstallation I forgot to copy SFRAC library!
> > Skiped this step
> >
> > cp /opt/VRTSvcs/rac/lib/libskgxn2_64.so
> > /opt/ORCLcluster/lib/libskgxn2.so
> >
> > What is that library for? I made a symbolic link afterwards to
> > $ORA_CRS_HOME/lib, is that enough?
> >
> > Another question is should I make these CRS Resources
> >
> > NAME=ora.rac1020.db
> > TYPE=application
> > TARGET=ONLINE
> > STATE=ONLINE on rac1
> >
> > NAME=ora.rac1020.rac10201.inst
> > TYPE=application
> > TARGET=ONLINE
> > STATE=ONLINE on rac1
> >
> > NAME=ora.rac1020.rac10202.inst
> > TYPE=application
> > TARGET=ONLINE
> > STATE=OFFLINE
> >
> > From TARGET=ONLINE to OFFLINE so when the server reboots CRS wont
> > attempt to start them? So Veritas Cluster will do it? I got this information
> > from Metalink Note 332257.1, where it says
> >
> > 4. Can Oracle
> > Clusterware be configured to not auto-start some Oracle resources
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > at node boot time?
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Alex Gorbachev
>
> The Pythian Group
> Sr. Oracle DBA
>
> http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/
> http://blog.oracloid.com
>
>
>
>
> *Fairlie Rego
> *Senior Oracle Consultant
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