Re: 10GR2 Rac/ RHEL interconnect/network speed

On 2006-03-21, sumit <sumitseng_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> We are setting up a 4 node 10GR2 Rac on RHEL ( 3 or may be 4 ) using
> Oracle clusterware. One of my tasks is to test the interconnect with
> varying user loads. Possibly use swingbench or oracle's load runner. I
> am new to linux - how to do it ? Or do I solely rely on Statspack ?

        Run oifcfg to validate your interconnect config.

        Setup sar and leave that running to validate your network traffic. I just caught a misconfig that way.

        Also, take a look at the em dbconsole. There are plenty of rac metrics there. Quest also has a rac version of spotlight.

>
> Also I am told that for OCFS, there is no plan to have its version 2
> support on linux ? It seems ASM using raw is a better choice than OCFS.

OCFS2 is not currently supported. Dunno if there is an eta for that either.

> In our shop it will take time to educate the system admins about ASM (
> and not to touch them ) etc..
>
> Thanks
> Sumit
>

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