Re: Oracle RAC VIP networking question

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:46:12 -0700
Message-ID: <1186501570.470115@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Cristian Cudizio wrote:

> On Aug 7, 3:21 pm, keith..._at_comcast.net wrote:

>> Our Unix/DBA team opened a case with Oracle yesterday evening and
>> Oracle Tech Support indicated the following:
>>
>> More than one VIP is not supported by Oracle.
>> But still if you want to have more than one VIP, you can opt for
>> network bonding.
>> For that you may ask your network administrator to establish network
>> bonding.
>> Ultimately Oracle should see only one VIP.
>>
>> So... I would assume their support knows their product. Does anyone
>> know what "network bonding" means?

> 
> until few minutes ago i thought that network bonding was a system to
> make
> work two NICs as one, not 2 VIPs on one NIC, but i'm not system
> administrator.

Keep thinking that.

> In my opinion what Oracle Support says is that you cannot configure
> listeners to
> listen to more than one VIP.

This is correct. But you can configure multiple listeners. What is important to remember is that with RAC it is the VIP not the physical IP to which the service is connected.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Tue Aug 07 2007 - 10:46:12 CDT