Re: Oracle 9.2 RAC on Red Hat AS 2.1 setup question

Thanks, Howard and Miroslav.
What about if I don't have external share disk system, can I just use one server's disks as 'shared' disks for RAC? Linux neetwork block device is the only way to work around?

Reagrds,

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<_3mV9.24998$jM5.65993_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
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> > > "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> > > >
> [snip]
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot, guys.
> > Since I only want to configure RAC for testing purpose. I guess I will
> > skip the NICs for backups, and no redudancy. Now if I have 2 NICs in
> > my 2 linux machines. Can I connect them like:
> >
> > Server A Server B
> > NICA_1 ------ NICB_1 (regular DB traffic)
> > NICA_2 ------ NICB_2 (interconnect)
> >
>
> Well I *think* that's exactly what I described. One for the public traffic
> and one for the interconnect. So the answer must be 'yes', and indeed 'this
> is bog-standard typical RAC'.
>
> >
> > Are both connections just the normal direct network cable
> > connections(other than cross cable)?
>
> Yup, physically. When you install RAC you are effectively installing an
> Oracle component which sits atop whichever NIC you specify should handle the
> interconnect traffic, and acts as a message-passing conduit for
> instance-specific traffic. That is, Linux must have a Cluster Management
> Services component, and Oracle's own CMS bits and pieces interface with that
> to handle the inter-instance traffic.
>
> Regards
> HJR
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 21:36:06 CST