Re: RAC configuration without shared storage

It's also possible to evaluate a multi-node RAC on a single PC.

Say hello to VMWare.

Each VMWare machine is a virtual, and 'independent' PC. So you can practice with cluster guard, for example, and see node failover happen, which the usual 'multiple instances running one database on a single PC' can't do.

Regards
HJR "Patrick London" <mpmers_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:b43da98f.0208191443.74e3937c_at_posting.google.com...
> I have seen various posts about configuring and running RAC under
> various operating systems, such as Windows 2000 or Linux, without
> having a shared storage array (and the corresponding controllers,
> hardware, firm ware, etc.). It appears that you can test RAC on
> single machine (in a simple test environment), but it also appears
> that you can still evaluate RAC in a multi-node environment by
> using a something like NFS and having each node mount the same remote
> file system.
>
> Is running a multi-node RAC environment using NFS possible?
>
> Are there other similar solutions for multi-node RAC environments (for
> testing purposes) like NFS?
>
> I see that the OakTable group had a demo at Oracle Open World where
> they had people walk up with their laptops to join the RAC cluster -
> how and where were they managing the data files, etc.? I could not
> find information on their configuration for that demo.
>
> Any information would be much appreciated.
>
> Patrick
Received on Tue Aug 20 2002 - 04:15:51 CDT