Re: oracle linux
- From: "Andrew Kerber" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:10:32 -0500
Yes, I am. He may have been talking about clustering software? Or maybe
the clustered file system? You want to use oracles crs and OCFS2 in a RAC
system on Linux.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I was on a project a couple of years ago, where the SAN admin told us to
> buy some 3rd party software to make the files visible to the linux server.
> your telling me this was probably incorrect advice ?
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Your understanding is incorrect. The SAN would come with the required
>> drivers, and iscsi works just fine too.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> I know this is not a sys admin forum, but this is an oracle product so I
>>> hope its ok.
>>>
>>> My understanding is that in order to have a linux server see files on a
>>> SAN(and I would guess a netapp too) is that you need to purchase a 3rd party
>>> driver that you install. It does not come out of the box. I forgot the brand
>>> the project I was on bought a couple of years ago when this issue came up.
>>>
>>> do you have to purchase this 3rd party software for oracle enterprise
>>> linux ? Its not vendor specific to the SAN.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>
>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>>
>
>
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Andrew W. Kerber
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