FW: Extended RAC and multicast
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:29:37 -0700
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A friend asked me a question that I could not answer. He is in the planning stages of an "extended RAC deployment" and is looking for confirmation that multicasting is optional. Help would be appreciated.
Kindest regards,
Iggy
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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:13:03 -0700
From: kulkarniravi_at_yahoo.com
Subject: Extended RAC and multicast
To: iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com
I am looking to setup extended RAC for my client. The details are as following:
The two data centers are separated by a distance of less than 20 miles.
They are connected by a high speed dedicated connection.
Operating System: RHEL 6 64 bit
Database version: 11gR2 (11.2.0.3)
Hardware: Four servers with 4x16 configuration
All the documentation I have reviewed so far says multicast should be enabled on the private interconnect between all the nodes of a RAC database. However, my network resources tell me that multicasting is not enabled across the data centers and VLANs do not span across the data centers. The only reference I have seen to multicasting requirement is in this Oracle document:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/install.121/e17888/networks.htm#CWLIN476 Specifically it makes the following assertion:
"You do not need to enable multicast communications across routers"
Does this mean, multicast is optional?
Regards,
Ravi Kulkarni
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