Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

Hi!

If you want multi-node RAC, you could also configure and use network block devices (NBD), i think linux supports them, dunno about stability, but it's ok for experimenting.
So the more powerful server would act as network block device server and has one RAC instance and another server just has the second instance.

Tanel.

"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.
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http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/opinion/coekaerts_linux01.html)
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> "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.
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Fri May 16 2003 - 02:47:07 CDT