Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1079267739.527863_at_yasure...
>
>>A. Fuentes wrote:
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>>>Fellow Oracle Users:
>>>
>>>I will be installing 9iRAC on two AIX nodes.
>>>
>>>
>>>1)Any pointers to web resources and guides?.
>>>
>>>2)Any pitfalls/advice?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>>A. Fuentes
>>
>>Keep the IBM consulting team, especially the DB2 ones, as far away
>>from your checkbook and your hardware as you can.
>>
>>Be very sure to test that you have a clustered file system before
>>proceeding to install anything from Oracle.
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> What if he wants to RAC with raw??
>
> I think you mean 'test you have a working cluster before worrying about the
> Oracle stuff'.
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> In which case, fair enough, though it is equally plausible to install
> non-RAC Oracle executables onto two separate machines, cluster the machines,
> and then add in the extra RAC components (otherwise how would you ever be
> able to upgrade from single instance Oracle to multi-instance?). Because of
> the myriad problems you can get with the bit of the install where Oracle
> replicates the executables over the interconnect to the second node, it is
> actually (IMHO) preferable to minimise the amount of stuff to be transferred
> in such a way precisely by doing a RAC-less install onto each machine first.
> Only the RAC-specific executables then get pushed across the interconnect.
>
> Regards
> HJR
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I will use both: GPFS and raw. I want to get a performance baseline for
both.
Received on Mon Mar 15 2004 - 15:58:54 CST
