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Re: RAC details

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:55:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1144180539.845498@yasure.drizzle.com>


unknown wrote:
> Folks,
> I did oracle RAC about 2years back that time, I had used the following
>
> - Solaris 8
> - Sun cluster 3.1
> - Veritas Cluster support
> - Raw volume (using Veritas )
>
> Now that things have changed ,i would like to try out the oracle10g on
> solaris again.I read this forum and came to some conclusion on 10gRAC
> (correct me if I am wrong)
>
> Type 1)
> oracle 10gr2 (Clusterware) -- This case we don`t need any 3rd party
> clustering. all we need is
> OS + oracle10gr2 + ASM/raw volume
>
> Type2)
> OS + Sun Cluster 3.1 + Data service for RAC + SVM/Vxvm/qfs/asm
>
> Have I left out any other type?Also, I would like to know what is the
> difference between two types apart from cost?

Oracle provides the ClusterWare but this is not the same as a clustered file system. You can certainly treat 10gR2 as in your Type2 example but I would recommend Type1 as the best approach if you don't have a NetApp.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Tue Apr 04 2006 - 14:55:40 CDT

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