Re: Oracle 10G RAC install on AIX 5.3 - newbee question on required hardware

goyald_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hello
> I need to learn installation of Oracle 10 G RAC. I am able to get two
> AIX 5.3 boxes that have a shared SCSI drive between them.
>
> Both AIX 5.3 boxes are on same 100 mbps LAN.
>
> Do I need anything else (e.g. any clustering software), before I can
> install Oracle RAC?
>
> Thanks

A shared SCSI drive between them is of zero value for RAC.

Contact me off-line and I can point you to hands-on training. But the first piece of the puzzle you need to understand is the meaning of shared storage.

This does not mean two servers can mount the same file system. It means two servers can share the storage on a block by block basis with no locking. The choices are either RAW (usually with ASM) or a clustered file system such as NetApp, OCFS, or OCFS2.

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