Re: Parallel server with only one server?

In article <8ta95t$795$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   mikea730_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> In the Oracle "Oracle8i Parallel Server Concepts and Administration
> Release 8.1.5" documentation it talks about "Shared Nothing Systems".
> What is this? Would this help eliminate the need for shared disk
> drives? I guess I would still need the cluster management software
> though????
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> In article <8t8jau$r60$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Viacheslav Leichinsky <v_leichinsky_at_ittoolbox.com> wrote:
> > In article <8t8e6f$ngb$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> > mikea730_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > > I received a request today from our engineering dept to set up an
 Oracle
> > > Parallel server "test" environment. I'd like to be able to run
 OPS
 with
> > > two instances against one database on the "same" server.
 Obviously
 this
> > > is would be pointless in a production environment. But for the
 test
> > > environment we don't want to have to set up a full blown cluster
> > > environment.
> >
> > It's immpossible.
> > > Is this possible? In the oracle docs is says that cluster
 management
> > > software (usually from a 3rd party, ie Veritas) with a shared disk
> > > resource is "required" to run OPS.
> > Docs is correct.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slava.
> >
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Please read the "Oracle8i Parallel Server Concepts" manual, Chapter 2. This chapter covers the "Shared Nothing" systems and gives a good diagram of how a parallel system of this nature is configured.

--
David Fitzjarrell
Oracle Certified DBA


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