Re: RAC 19c on OLVM

From: Ls Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:20:00 +0100
Message-ID: <CAJ2-Qb_nTR23e11GHQzz2P7wAFPp11-fc_ziTx+ApN=z-dnj9A_at_mail.gmail.com>



Hi

Thanks for the suggestions but I am moving from Oracle VM x86 to OLVM, and due to licensing I have to use OLVM since it supports Hard Partitioning.

I cannot find any OLVM resource which is a shame because Oracle VM x86 is near the end of support.

Thanks

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:47 AM Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> OLVM is the replacement product for now defunct OVM. I am not sure how
> many people have bought it since the fate of OVM doesn't really instill
> confidence. I used both VMWare and VirtualBox to create RAC and the only
> difference is in creating a shared disk. OLVM is probably another KVM
> based virtualization product and can create a shared disk. If it can
> not, and I very much doubt that, you can create 3 machines and use one
> as a NFSv4 server. You can also use Illumos, the artist formerly known
> as OpenSolaris, as a NFSv4 server. Illumos has an excellent
> implementation of zfs and you can add drives to an existing file system
> or extend devices in a very easy way. You can learn about Illumos here:
> https://illumos.org
>
> You can setup Illumos in VirtualBox to use it as a NFS server. Oracle
> RAC supports that NFS configuration. Of course, Oracle doesn't support
> Illumos.
>
> On 12/21/20 12:06 PM, Ls Cheng wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Has anyone got experience installing and configuring 19c RAC in Oracle
> > Linux Virtualization Manager? (OLVM)
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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