Re: Oracle 9.2 RAC on Red Hat AS 2.1 setup question

>> How much luck (if any) have people had with the shared disk on firewire
>> drives that Oracle touts on its website? I'm going to be trying in the
>> next couple of weeks here (hopefully, if the machines arrive) but I'd be
>> interested to hear of any success stories.
>>
>> For those unfamiliar, it's a bargain-basement way of having a shared disk
>> subsystem: two firewire cards, and an IDE drive in an external enclosure,
>> and wallah! shared disk.

> But if you're looking for bargain-basement ways of RACing (which I assume
> means this is a home PC job and not a production database) then there's no
> need to invest in any hardware at all. Linux and Windows both can be made to
> do multi-instance or multi-node RACing, all on a single PC. The results can
> be extremely stable, and provide a very full implementation with which to
> get familiar with RAC concepts and procedures.

Yeah, but then it's not really a cluster, is it? Not to say it's not valuable where it's valuable, but you don't have a physical interconnect nor the ability to do real, nasty, hardware things like brown-out the power or put a really lousy NIC into one of the machines.

And Firewire has RAID enclosures now...

Jer  

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>> Jer Smith
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 17:53:22 CST