Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:49:07 +0800
Message-ID: <3EC44393.7FBD@yahoo.com>


Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> You can also do it with Compact Flash cards (or similar).
>
> Bit of a toughie if you don't have any such cards hanging around, or if you
> don't have any firewire drives going spare....
>
> The trouble with all such 'clever tech' approaches to emulating a RAC is
> that it's entirely unnecessary. You can do it perfectly well with a boring
> old IDE drive and little else.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
> "Mark J. Kounalis" <mkounal_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:vc8d8md7kmrta4_at_corp.supernews.com...
> > There was a one-page article in the latest Oracle magazine that suggested
> > that it was easy (and fairly cheap) to implement shared storage using
> > Firewire. FYI.
> >
> > (
> >
> http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/opinion/coekaerts_linux01.html)
> >
> >
> > "Jack" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:wNzwa.10595$6q6.2431702_at_news2.telusplanet.net...
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >

Compact flash is my next undertaking...I've got a 512M card in the digital camera - which will hopefully become my "shared disk array" :-)

-- 
=========================
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 - 20:49:07 CDT

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US