Re: Challenge with Oracle 10G without Network on AIX

Thanks for all the posts. You've given me several things to research and try when I get back in the office Monday. I'll watch that alert logs you mentioned while starting the database.

I'm fairly confident my environment variables are set correctly as I'm able to start/stop the database, client and the listener w/o issues when there is network connectivity.

As for Disk sharing, this is an IBM Power 5 server. I hate to complicate things, because I don't believe this is having an effect on the problem I'm seeing (I hate to be a broken record, but it works with network attachment..) However just in case: This server has a hardware virtualization layer that shares shares SCSI and network devices across all partitions. In this server I have 2 AIX, 1 Linux and 1 Virtual I/O (VIO) partition sharing 2 processors, 1 SCSI card, 4 72 GB disks, 16 GB of memory, 2 gigabit ethernet ports.

The VIO partition owns the SCSI and ethernet devices and serves them up as virtual devices to the other partitions. (The Hypervisor divides up the CPU & Memory) Sort of a stretch, but think of it as a hardware version of VMware. The virtual devices appear as a generic scsi device and ethernet to the OS's on the client partitions. BTW, they each get their own Logical Volume on the SCSI Device.

Thanks again. Received on Sat Jun 25 2005 - 11:53:50 CDT