Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:13:25 +1000
Message-ID: <vkLwa.34831$1s1.505388@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

"Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message

[snip]

Pretty much so. I'm running "RAC" at home on a single desktop as
> follows:
>
> 400Mhz machine (no laughing please)
> 512M ram
> 1 x 60G disk - OS, software, normal windows stuff
> 1 x 120G disk - formatted with Oracle cluster file system
>

Ah... thought so (I think!!)... so what you're saying is that the 120GB drive is entirely dedicated to the CFS? That it had no prior partitions on it?

See my other post: that's my understanding of the minimum requirements too.

> then you pretty much just follow the instructions as per the docs on
> oaktable.net. As long as you have spare disk space for the cluster file
> system, you won't need to use VMWare.

Again: let's clarify. It's not just spare disk space, but a spare disk that you need.

Regards
HJR
>
> hth
> connor
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Received on Thu May 15 2003 - 07:13:25 CDT