Re: Windows Multi-node RAC (VMware)

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> Billy: you've missed the point on this one.

Nothing new. :-)

I'm out of date when it comes to RAC. I used OPS 7.3 many years ago on a MPP cluster.

> Whilst your description of
> VMware is perfectly correct, the two-node RAC paper the OP is referring to
> simply doesn't work in any networking configuration except the Host-Only
> one.

Don't understand... an IP is an IP is an IP...

> You are correct that this isn't an issue with RAC itself. But it's most
> definitely an issue with the test RAC setup (ie, on a single Windows PC)
> that the paper referred to is creating.
>
> And there's no way around it.

Now I'm confused.

I assume that you run two VM's each with RAC on 1 host system. Surely all you need to do is configure the two RAC instances with the other node's IP address, install RAC in each VM and configure it, right?

BTW, what mechanism does RAC use these days for global pinging? In the old OPS days we had to run special software (from the Unix vendor) to provide this mechanism. Is this part of the problem with running it under VMware and using the virtual IP devices?

Do you have a URL for that paper? I did a quick search on "RAC VMWARE" and did not find anything at http://www.oaktable.net (not a member either)

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Billy