Re: The cheapest hardware for real RAC

Good Morning.

Did you read the stuff on Oracle Technet

  Build Your Own Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 Cluster on Linux and FireWire   http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2.html

I hope this helps.

...Pete

Ranko.Mosic_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Mladene,
> If I remember well, I couldn't see shared disk from the other node .
> Which disk did you use ? I am using Western Digital WD1200B007, 120G.
> I used Oracle 10g, Redhat 3X. I am using 2 cheap PC's. Don't know if
> problem is in
> Oxford 450 chipset ( If I remeber well ) that must be used ( does it ?
> ), or
> in clunky PC's ( quite often I have to jiggle mouse connection so
> Redhat recognizes it),
> or clunky me.
>
> Regards, Ranko.
>
>
>
>
> Mladen Gogala wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > http://www.mgogala.com
Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 07:25:50 CDT