Read James Morle's article (the one I told you about to start with).
Whatever he did there on his laptop, you should be able to do with two
separate machines. I would have thought (no guarantees from this Windows
user, however).
Regards
HJR
"JZ" <ibm_97_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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> > "JZ" <ibm_97_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:10bc841c.0301150746.f432610_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Sean McKeown <smckeown_at_adelphia.net> wrote in message
> > news:<3E24C8BB.3B790D95_at_adelphia.net>...
> > > > "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 - 23:23:32 CST
