Re: Oracle8 parallel server ???????

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:16:50 +0200
Message-ID: <70ha0o$2fb$1@hermes.is.co.za>

Greg C. wrote in message <01bdfb77$df981d10$360baa0a_at_ictltgclark>...

>What are the Oracle requirements for implementing OPS on a RS6000 interms
>of hardware, personel roles and time. I recently heard that a shop required
>1 month to configure their HP machines for OPS. Can anyone tell me what
>kind of time line I should expect to implement OPS? Are there any gotchas?

1 month!! We configured an OPS on a Unix-based MPP recently in a couple of hours. What takes time is to prepare the machines. Installing Oracle, configuring raw devices, installing and configuring the DLM (distributed lock manager) and whatever else needs to be there from the o/s side. But this should take maybe 2 or 3 days at the most. Quite likely it was a first for whoever did the installation you described.

Creating an OPS database is very easy. No gotchas. Just remember to make sure each instance has its private rollback segments and to enable redo log threads. The OPS manual (chapter 15) explains it very well.

Oh yes, we also used a global init file for the global db settings and a local instance specific init file that includes the global file.

regards,
Billy Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 01:16:50 CDT