Re: RAC Test System

Hi Howard,
Would you mind sharing your experience on how to setup RAC on single node by using 1 physical harddisk drive on a RH Linux 9 PC please? Or maybe you could refer me to any web/documentation on it.

TIA,
Andi

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:

> A RAC is merely two or more instances managing the one Oracle database. Who
> said it had to contain more than one node?
>
> If you want to learn RAC, then getting two instances co-operating is the nub
> of the issue, regardless of the number of nodes used. You will be wanting to
> configure GSD, practice failover, investigate load balancing, probe the
> networking latencies associated with the global cache service. All do-able
> on one node. You'll want to see what's different about backup and recovery,
> client networking configuration, OLTP and Warehouse issues. All do-able on
> one node.
>
> Course, if you want to learn clustering, then that's a different issue,
> since clustering has nothing to do with RAC. But that's do-able on a single
> physical machine, too. You just need to virtualise your cluster hardware.
>
>
> RAC has been done with compact flash cards, firewire, USB2 drives, you name
> it. I've even done it with a USB key drive physically inserted in one
> machine and NFS mounted onto the other.
>
> Take your pick.
>
> But the simplest, cheapest, most robust and repeatable testing is done with
> RAC on a single node. Anything you want to know about RAC (rather than
> clustering) can be done with that setup.
>
> Regards
> HJR
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Received on Mon Nov 03 2003 - 19:31:09 CST