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Re: Varitas Cluster Software + Oracle Clusterware Installation

From: Arif Gulzar <gulzar.arif_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:28:01 -0500
Message-ID: <883cc9600708281928h56a39f30t9b8d38fc4b126272@mail.gmail.com>


Solaris SPARS 64bit is the OS

On 8/28/07, Closson, Kevin A <kevin.closson_at_hp.com> wrote:
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>
> If you're building an Oracle RAC cluster, you'll install VCS (actually,
> SFOR) first and then install Oracle Clusterware. You *must* have Oracle
> Clusterware--it is not optional. However, the "magic" is that when Oracle
> Clusterware is installed "on top" of VCS, it detects VCS and integrates with
> it by delegating cluster membership duties and authority to VCS.
>
> Short answer: for RAC, yes, you need both. For failover, VCS is fine by
> itself.
>
> ...the original post didn't specify platform. It turns out that SFRAC is
> now certified for all 3 Linux distros (EOL,RHEL,SLES). So if this is Linux
> RAC, then SFRAC will ***not*** integrate with VCS. They run in parallel in
> that situation just as did RAC on PolyServe.
>
>
>
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