Oracle Parallel Server Installation on SunOS 5.8 running Sun Cluster 3.0

Can Oracle 8.1.7 be installed along with Oracle Parallel Server support, on a two node cluster running Sun Cluster Server 3.0 installed on SunOS 5.8 without configuring RAW DEVICES?

I have tried to install Oracle 8.1.7. The installer is intelligent enough to recognize the cluster installation and correctly prompts with the node names of the machines in the cluster. Oracle install and link is successful but the instatller hangs thereafter.

I manually execute dbassist to create a database but get the following error on selecting either one or both the nodes in the cluster:-
"The following nodes cannot be accessed due to lack of permission.."

One reason which I think might be causing this is that I do not have any raw devices on this cluster installation. My understanding was that raw devices were required to provide a shared disk space to the nodes in the cluster. Since, Sun Cluster 3.0 has the concept of a Global Shared File System I think that use of raw devices should not be mandatory. Since the database is not being created, apparently my assumption is wrong and I might be REQUIRED to create raw devices.

Before I actually went ahead and made provisions for raw devices I wanted to find a definitive answer to this if I could.

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Thanks Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:35:07 CST