Re: Oracle 11g CRS, RAC and ASM on Solaris

From: Finn Jorgensen <finn.oracledba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:54:20 -0400
Message-ID: <74f79c6b0804280954paa16125l99562aaef9887e96@mail.gmail.com>


Mark is right.

ASM is not your only choice. You could use raw devices (I would prefer ASM in that case, but that's just me) or you could use a Clustered filesystem, which in your case would be Veritas clustered filesystems. I doubt that's certified with 11g yet, so if it has to be 11g you probably have to use ASM or raw.

To answer your other question, the devices has to have the same name on all nodes in the cluster. This is because you really only create the diskgroup on one node and the disks then has to have the same name for the other ASM instances to recognize it.

Finn

On 4/28/08, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com> wrote:
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> That would be difficult, since there was no ASM in 9i…..
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> I think point number two should have been:
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> 2.) Raw is required with RAC, you don't have a choice.
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> That's a requirement that used to be true, and went all the way back to
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> I'm not sure if it's still a requirement. ASM is an option, starting w/
> 10g, but you'll still need some shared raw storage for ASM to manage.
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> As to CFSes, I'm not sure what's available/supported on what platform, as
> far as RAC is concerned. I thought Veritas offered a clustered VxFS that
> would work w/ RAC, but, don't quote me on that.
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> We've always been a raw device shop, even for all our single instance
> databases, so, it was never an issue here.
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> -Mark
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Goulet, Dick
> *Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2008 11:46 AM
> *To:* Best, David; duncan.lawie_at_credit-suisse.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: Oracle 11g CRS, RAC and ASM on Solaris
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> To the best of my knowledge it's been that way since 9i.
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> *Subject:* RE: Oracle 11g CRS, RAC and ASM on Solaris
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> Is point #2 a new requirement for 11g?
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Goulet, Dick
> *Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2008 11:07 AM
> *To:* duncan.lawie_at_credit-suisse.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: Oracle 11g CRS, RAC and ASM on Solaris
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> Duncan,
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> I'm in the middle of planning/implementing a RAC on Solaris
> cluster. The plan is to:
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> 1) use Oracle cluster services instead of other clusterware, less
> finger pointing.
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> 2) ASM is mandatory with RAC, you don't have a choice.
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