Re: AIX RAC and ASM....

Pete's wrote:
> oracle_man wrote:
> > No problems yet. I was just curious if there were any caveats. We
> > just decided the disk layout. Pretty generic. Let me know what your
> > think:
> >
> > On each node:
> >
> > /u01 oracle:dba 4GB, jfs2 for oracle binaries, bdump,cdump, etc...
> >
> > /u02 root:<group> 4Gb, jfs2 for cluster binaries
> >
> > Shared disk:
> >
> > 2x1GB raw physical volumes. 1 for voting disk, 1 for OCR
> >
> > 4x50GB raw physical volumes for ASM disk farm.
> >
> > One question I have, is where is the best place to backup? Local ASM,
> > or to jfs2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
>
> I just setup an AIX 5.3 ml 03 RAC config, 10.2.0.2, but I used gpfs.
> You only need 200mb for the voting disk & 200M for the ocr. Oracle has
> a JSC(Joint Solution Center) cookbook document on AIX & 10gR2 that's
> decent. I do not believe it's available via metalink. It goes thru
> GPFS, RAW & ASM storage. Be sure you do not have any duplicate uid's
> for root and your oracle owner and the install will go well. Backup
> location & strategy will be your preference.
>
> HTH,
> Pete's

I know you're not using gpfs, but, Oracle has been recommending that RAW be used for the OCR & Voting disks rather than gpfs(not sure about any other cluster fs). Supposedly there are some instability issues at times that they would not divulge.

Pete's Received on Wed Nov 01 2006 - 11:49:11 CST