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G'Day!
In article <8ms8fu$3c7$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
rbelanger_at_forrester.com wrote:
> We are currently investigating the use of OPS on Solaris and are
> getting different stories from Oracle and one of our consultants. The
> consultant is telling us that OPS on Solaris has reliability problems
> tied to Sun's distributed lock manager in Sun Clustering.
Funnily enough, I believe the lock manager has changed significantly in the 8.0.5 to 8.0.6 version upgrade. Note that versions 8.0.5/8.1.5 are now de-supported by Oracle - 8.0.6/8.1.6 are the current supported versions. So whereas the lock manager gave no problems previously (we're happily running OPS v 8.0.5), it may now have become an issue. I admit we haven't yet done a trial upgrade to 8.0.6 to test this yet though.
> Oracle is telling us that OPS runs great on Solaris, and that they
> have many happy OPS/Solaris clients.
Oracle always says this :-) But what version of OPS are these clients on? We're happy, but still on 8.0.5
> The picture is further complicated by our desire to use EMC Symmetrix
> disk storage - Sun is refusing to certify the Sun Cluster unless it
> uses only Sun storage.
Better make sure you only use cluster-certified hardware AND software for a Sun cluster/OPS setup! Support would be non-existant otherwise ...
> Any insights or experiences with OPS on Solaris with EMC would be
> greatly appreciated.
We've been running several OPS systems on Solaris 2.6 servers for some time without any problems. However, we have had to patch up to level 8.0.5.2 server and 8.0.5.1.6 client (NT) to eliminate all problems. We ended up programming round the client re-connect problems though so we can now use any version of the client. The server update was essential though. We only use Sun hardware, so I can't comment on alternate storage.
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