Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

From: Jack <nospam_at_nospam.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:44:23 GMT
Message-ID: <beRwa.109$FC2.184837@news1.telusplanet.net>

To summarize what I got from you and Howard so far.

No vmware is required if you have a spare disk with NO partition on it, in which case the whole disk space (80G) will be your shared disk size for RAC. If you don't want the whole 80G disk space to dedicate to RAC, you can use Partition Magic to resize/shrink the "shared disk" and make room for creating subsequent partitions after RAC install and config. With vmware, you are able to specify the size of your shared disk at the first place (i.e., before RAC install).
vmware would still be required in that a virtual OS (guest OS) will be installed, even for a singlenode with multi instances RAC. We are not going to play RAC with our host OS, right?

Appreciate all your responses.

Jack

"Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3EC3A9DB.393D_at_yahoo.com...
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> >
> > "Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Pretty much so. I'm running "RAC" at home on a single desktop as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > 400Mhz machine (no laughing please)
> > > 512M ram
> > > 1 x 60G disk - OS, software, normal windows stuff
> > > 1 x 120G disk - formatted with Oracle cluster file system
> > >
> >
> > Ah... thought so (I think!!)... so what you're saying is that the 120GB
> > drive is entirely dedicated to the CFS? That it had no prior partitions
on
> > it?
> >
> > See my other post: that's my understanding of the minimum requirements
too.
> >
> > > then you pretty much just follow the instructions as per the docs on
> > > oaktable.net. As long as you have spare disk space for the cluster
file
> > > system, you won't need to use VMWare.
> >
> > Again: let's clarify. It's not just spare disk space, but a spare disk
that
> > you need.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> > >
> > > hth
> > > connor
> > > --
> > > =========================
> > > Connor McDonald
> > > http://www.oracledba.co.uk
> > >
> > > "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue"

> spare disk space is pretty much equivalent to spare disk - a little
> tweak here and there with partition magic and voila! you've got a spare
> disk partition. Or the cheeky way (if you dont wanna spend on Partition
> Magic) is to boot off a linux CD, tell it to resize the existing
> partitions to reclaim some space, and then abort the install :-)

> cheers
> connor
> --
> =========================
> Connor McDonald
> http://www.oracledba.co.uk

>
> "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue"
Received on Thu May 15 2003 - 13:44:23 CDT