Re: The cheapest hardware for real RAC

Mladene,
If I remember well, I couldn't see shared disk from the other node . Which disk did you use ? I am using Western Digital WD1200B007, 120G. I used Oracle 10g, Redhat 3X. I am using 2 cheap PC's. Don't know if problem is in
Oxford 450 chipset ( If I remeber well ) that must be used ( does it ? ), or
in clunky PC's ( quite often I have to jiggle mouse connection so Redhat recognizes it),
or clunky me.

Regards, Ranko.

Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:17:45 -0700, Ranko.Mosic_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am looking for recommendations on which storage hardware to purchase.
> >
> > I want to connect 2 white box PC's ( which I have ) and storage
> > hardware ( which I don't have yet) into RAC ready config.
> > ( I tried Firewire thing, didn't work; VMware works, but is only
> > simulation).
> >
>
> What was the problem with the FireWire? I was able to do so in January
> 2005 with two Dell PC boxes, FireWire and external disk with OCFS 1.14.
> Oracle was 9.2.0.6. It worked. I will not say it worked like a charm,
> but it did work - eventually. It took me 2 weeks to get it working
> reliably and I was elbow deep in the kernels, drivers and machinery, but I
> did get it to work. I found out that cross-over cable is no good, I needed
> a little Linksys switch for the private connection, I've put voting file
> on the raw device (thanks to Werner Puschitz) and I created the database
> manually, but I did get everything to work. Linux was RH 3.0.
>
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Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 07:18:20 CDT