Re: Fw: Redundant Interconnect Usage for 11gR2 RAC

From: Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:42:49 +0100
Message-ID: <CAGdek=z7KqoQz=fgeaCgxsyktOYBo9EaszFukp_aY0+aPkOpTQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Sreejith S Nair <Sreejith.Sreekantan_at_ibsplc.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends,

...
> So we have a private NIC in two nodes which will act as a private interconnect and with 11G , HAIP will run in this nic. Now, if I want to add one more NIC for redundancy, what are the steps I should do.
> 1 ) Configure the NIC in hardware level in same subnet
> 2 ) check the nic availability using ifconfig or some other commands.
> 3 ) Configure it for RAC using oifcfg as below.
>
> Before
> ======
> # $GRID_HOME/bin/oifcfg getif
> eth0 10.2.156.0 global public
> eth1 192.168.12.0 global cluster_interconnect
>
> Add eth2 as reduntant NIC
>
> # $GRID_HOME/bin/oifcfg setif -global \
> eth2/192.168.12.0:cluster_interconnect
>
> Verify the configuration
> # $GRID_HOME/bin/oifcfg getif
> eth0 10.2.156.0 global public
> eth1 192.168.12.0 global cluster_interconnect
> eth2 192.168.2.0 global cluster_interconnect
>
> Reboot the nodes and clusterware.

Looks good to me - check that note for bugs and checks - 1210883.1 It is good idea to upgrade to 11.2.0.3 first

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Received on Fri Sep 16 2011 - 05:42:49 CDT