Hi
Do you mean 8 instances in 8 nodes shares same interconnect?
On 10/30/06, Bryan Thomas <bthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The NICs and the interconnect are related to the cluster (CRS). There
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> There will only be one interconnect and one VIP set per cluster no
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> -Bryan
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> *From:* amonte [mailto: ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Monday, October 30, 2006 3:41 PM
> *To:* Bryan Thomas
> *Cc:* Anurag Verma; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: Question about RAC
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> Hi Bryan
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> Did each instance have dedicated NIC and Interconnect?
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> TIA
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> Alex
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> On 10/30/06, *Bryan Thomas* < bthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Anurag,
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> This is standard practice among most RAC installations. Last week I
> upgraded a 4-node cluster that had 5 instances on each node.
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> The obvious question is - How much memory do they have? Each instance
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> Bryan Thomas
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> Senior Consultant and Practice Manager
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> Performance Tuning Corporation
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> www.perftuning.com
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *amonte
> *Sent:* Monday, October 30, 2006 2:38 PM
> *To:* Anurag Verma
> *Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: Question about RAC
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> Sorry I should have stated clearer.
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> Say we have server srv1 and srv2 a database called RAC in the shared
> storage and a instance rac1 in srv1 and rac2 in srv2, that is the usual
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> database RAC and CAR in shared storage
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> instance rac1 and car1 in srv1
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> instance rac2 and car2 in srv2
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> Obviously rac1 and rac2 forms RAC and car1 and car2 forms CAR. Not very
> logical in my opinion, seems like others think so.
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> On 10/30/06, *Anurag Verma* < anuragdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Do you mean for a single database, use 4 instances each in 2 servers??
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> Then what is the meaning of high availability??
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> If the customer wants RACing 4 seperate databases each with 2 RAC
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> If it is the first case, you have to educate the customer...
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> Anurag
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> On 10/30/06, *amonte* < ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi all
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> I have a question about RAC.
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> I have implemented a few RAC on a couple of customers. I have always
> worked with two nodes and a single database, i.e 2 servers and a common
> database in a shared storage.
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> I have a customer who wants to use 2 servers to implement 4 RACs, i.ehacing 4
instances in each server. Has anyone done this sort of
> implemntation? I am not sure if this is logical or ilogical :-)
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