If this is a high profile, critical database that requires HA, even during the day, the hardware setup doesn't even sound close to sufficient. On Jan 10, 2008 11:01 AM, Michael McMullen <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's what he's done, combined the both so public & private traffic is > combined. I'm assuming it's not supported and as such as this will be a very > high profile, critical database, he'll have to change. > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Dan Norris [mailto:dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* January 10, 2008 11:06 AM > *To:* ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: rac network question > > > > Michael, > > I see a huge problem and very likely a support issue as well. Basically > what he's saying is that the host will have a *single* logical network > interface. That *single* interface will need to serve as the private and > public interface and that's where Oracle Support may have some major > problems. > > If these blades only support 2 NICs (and you have no opportunities to > expand them), then I'd elect to leave the redundancy aside and take a NIC > failure as a whole node failure. Since the only other choice is to combine > public and private networks over a single logical interface, removing > redundancy so you have 2 separate logical/physical interfaces would be a > favorable choice. > > Dan > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'