Re: Moving 2-node RAC to AWS

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 7:25 PM Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11/19/21 12:38, niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com wrote:
> > I'd love to know how those constraints are articulated. As you've
> > discovered RAC is not supported on EC2, and indeed isn't even
> > implementable without additional software
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> It is also possible to use NFS3 for RAC. FlashGrid is not necessary.
> However, it would require 3 nodes, not 2. The 3rd node would have to be
> the NFS server
>

My point was about supported/supportable configurations. As you know NFS is supported for RAC "on a certified network-attached storage (NAS) filer" You certainly can get those in the cloud, but a 3rd EC2 instance running Linux isn't it. You'd need to pay for a Cloud NAS Device.

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