Re: Oracle 10gR2 RAC VIP Question

  • From: "Alex Gorbachev" <gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: naqimirza@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:13:37 -0500

It doesn't matter. You can actually have more than one VIP (User VIPs).

On 3/27/07, Naqi Mirza <naqimirza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
I have a 2 node 10gR2 (10.2.0.2) Installation running on HP-UX (PA-RISC) 64
Bit, 11.23. HP Serviceguard Extensions for RAC (11.17) is also installed.
.
Due to maintenance both nodes were brought down. One they were brought up, I
noticed that the vip for one node - node2, was running on interface lan0:2.
lan0 is our public interface. Now typically, the vip runs on lan0:1. When a
node is evicted from the cluster, the vip of the evicted node gets relocated
from lan0:1 on the evicted node to lan0:2 on the surviving node.
My question basically is, does it matter which logical interface
(:1,:2,:3,:4,etc) the vip runs on for any node - be it the evicted node, or
the surviving (master) node. Essentially the mapping for the vip is defined
in the OCR and the /etc/hosts file. There is no mention of whether this
should run on :1,:2,:3,:4,etc - only that it should be on the public
interface - lan0 - which it is.
A look into the ocr file, and this is all i can find:
.
[SYSTEM.css.interfaces.global.lan0.172|d25|d3|d0.1]
.
Not sure what d0.1 means?, the first three segments are those for the public
network. .1 = :1 = lan0:1 ??
That said, whenever I have seen a relocation of the vip take place it goes
to lan0:2 - However as mentioned earlier, lan0:2 is already in use by one of
the nodes, if a relocation to this node were to take place would the the vip
come up here as lan0:3 - unfortunately I can't test this out yet, but was
wondering if anyone had an idea on this?
Thanks

Naqi

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