Re: RAC Clusterware Question

Greg wrote:
> I'm having most issues with the Cluster Piece...it is just a "piece".
> I'm not impressed with OCFS either -- slow, clunky, can't defragment
> and now no longer supported by EMC (for version 2 of OCFS).
>
> I have not experience the 10g clusterware in any real production
> action, but if it is like 9i, it needs to be thrown out the window.
>
> We are migrating to 10g, r2, and thinking of using Veritas Clusters
> with Veritas SAN point and foundation suite..but getting some blow back
> from Oracle as it not being supported and Veritas saying it is -- so
> getting to the bottom of it with Oracle.
>
> I could not name you the exact problems - I'm sure i'm limited to some
> sort of characters on how many issues we've had using OCFS and
> Clustering.
>
> I've thoughty ASM, but still like the idea of seeing the cooked files
> (old habits die hard I guess).
>
> boogab00_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> > I'm running Oracle 10g on Redhat 4 U3 using Oracle clusterware, ASM and
> > raw for the OCR and voting disks. Had too much trouble with OCFS. No
> > problems with this current setup. What exact problems are you having?
> > Is it with OCFS or the clusterware?

Huh... I'm running 9i RAC on (don't laugh now!) Windows 2003 Server. So far, it's been absolutely fine. No problems with OCFS, but then again, although we absolutely hit it, we don't beat the holy heck out of it either. We mainly wanted it for the redundancy.

So far, it's the most productive thing I've ever seen Windows based systems do...

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com Received on Mon Jul 17 2006 - 19:10:00 CDT