Re: Oracle Parallel Server

I'm running 8.1.7 on Solaris 8 (32 bit) with servers connected to a D1000 disk array. The whole point of OPS is to allow both servers to see the same database on the same logical volumes, although they are separate instances.

The logical volumes (Veritas in my case) were created in shared mode and the SCSI is handled by using differential SCSI, where the SCSI id on the 2nd node is usually changed ( from id 5 to id 7 ).

The volumes do have to be raw, as that is required by OPS. This is handled nicely by the Veritas GUI (vmsa). It may be possible, with newer versions, to use the Quick I/O although I have not seen anything to this effect. I believe the raw volumes is an OS independent requirement.

Good luck,
-Dirk

mkl wrote:
>
> Just wonder if anyone out there is running Oracle
> 8.1.6 in parallel server mode. Mainly on HP-UX 11.0 (64 bit) with servers
> connect to an XP256 disk storage array. Is it possible to configure the
> XP256 disk array so that all servers mount the
> same database on the same logical volumes?
> At least I think that is the concept of parallel server
> mode. Can the volumes be file systems, or do
> they have to be raw devices to be able to do this
> in the HP world?
>
> Any information you can give me would be helpful.
>
> Mike
Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 12:21:26 CDT