Re: The cheapest hardware for real RAC

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:17:45 -0700, Ranko.Mosic_at_gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I am looking for recommendations on which storage hardware to purchase.
>
> I want to connect 2 white box PC's ( which I have ) and storage
> hardware ( which I don't have yet) into RAC ready config.
> ( I tried Firewire thing, didn't work; VMware works, but is only
> simulation).
>

What was the problem with the FireWire? I was able to do so in January 2005 with two Dell PC boxes, FireWire and external disk with OCFS 1.14. Oracle was 9.2.0.6. It worked. I will not say it worked like a charm, but it did work - eventually. It took me 2 weeks to get it working reliably and I was elbow deep in the kernels, drivers and machinery, but I did get it to work. I found out that cross-over cable is no good, I needed a little Linksys switch for the private connection, I've put voting file on the raw device (thanks to Werner Puschitz) and I created the database manually, but I did get everything to work. Linux was RH 3.0.

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