Parallel Server on AIX ? n
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 08:12:04 EST
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Subject: Parallel Server on AIX ?
Dan:
I've worked with the Parallel Server version of Oracle on VMS and single
instance Oracle on the RS/6000 quite a bit. Couple things you ought to
know about "clustered" RS/6000's.
1. The shared disks are only raw devices.
2. A customer I spent a bit of time configuring this year decided,
against my strong recommendation to use raw devices for their
database instaed of journalled file systems. This customer then had
some annoying problems with AIX writing to a portion of the raw
devices that Oracle was also writing to.
I guess what I am recommending is that if you are going to use the
Parallel Server you what you getting into. On a friendly, mature
environment like VMS it was a handful. On the RS/6000 it could by like
tap dancing in a mine field.
Good luck!
Bob Manieri - Database Administration Consultant
Aston Brooke Corp, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Pager: 609-342-0314 FAX: 609-853-8050
email : rmanieri_at_novalink.com
It has been said that a DBA is a professional paranoid.
Just because you're paranoid,
doesn't mean that they're not out to get you.
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Received on Mon Dec 20 1993 - 14:12:04 CET