Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

Jack wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to install 9i RAC on two test machine. Are external shared
> hard disks mandatory? Can one disk on one of the machine act as "shared hard
> disks"? Do shared hard disks have to be external? I just want to know if I
> can make use of the internal IDE disk to test drive RAC on my home PC.
>
> Thanks.

Head over to www.OakTable.net for some articles on the subject. They talk about using VMWare to set up virtual disk systems, but if you have spare unpartitioned space you can skip that step as well

hth
connor

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