Re: 10.2.0.2 EE RAC, RHEL4 and LVM2 support?

  • From: Steve Perry <sperry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:14:07 -0500

I hadn't seen that note before.
I know there are better solutions out there, but I'm in an environment that thinks open source is the answer to everything.


<soap box>
By the time the project comes to me, the check has been written and people are singing songs about low cost - high performance and dancing in the streets.
Oracle's marketing seems to have embraced it too.
I'm sure you've seen the commercial where they imply you can replace an expensive mainframe with a few "cheap" servers clustered together with RAC...


when i'm in meetings and the BS siren goes off (seconds after the salesman opens his mouth), I ask why they drive a Mercedes or lexis' when I could put them in a new kia or ford? Their commercials say they have the same features for a lot less.
a break is soon announced and I'm told they'll call me if they have anymore questions.
I've come to the conclusion that these people (i.e. customers) still believe in the Easter bunny.


there's another one I hear alot and that's "all databases are the same - they're a commodity". That comes from managers with networking backgrounds (now dba managers) who swear up and down we have to buy Cisco. I asked why that same philosophy doesn't apply to networking. the answer is "networking is totally different than databases"...

Engineering has always been a victim of sales and always will be.
</soap box>

I'm immune to all now and only ask the them one question "do you want fries with that database?" . I leave work less stressed and my hair is starting to grow back.
on the bright side, you'll be getting a lot of referral business :)


On a serious note, I'll bring your product to their attention since there's still time before implementation.

thanks again.
steve



On Jul 23, 2006, at 04:02 PM, Kevin Closson wrote:


The only slogan I can come up with for this is "The land of the free and the brave". Folks, GFS forces you to have a node that does not host RAC instances dedicated to their lock manager.... and then that is a single point of failure...but I hear you can cluster the lock manager...is that 4 nodes for 2 node RAC?

All this central lock manager madness is just crazy. There
are fully distributed, symetric, resilient, journalled
CFS offerings out there. One runs on VMS and the
other runs on Linux and Windows. I can tell you where
to get the latter :-)

How "free" is that open source stuff afterall?


Reference Metalink 329530.1



I'm trying to avoid using ASM. It works, but I don't like
having to use RMAN to do everything. There are more, but
I'll let it go.

I've looked all over and can't find any references so I
thought I'd check with the list.
I was asked if we could use LVM2 (which is cluster aware) to
manage disks in a RAC cluster.
Instead of adding a new LUN and creating a new file system
"/oraXX", they want to add a new lun to the volume group and
extend it.

the RAC faq says it's not supported because lvm is not
cluster aware, but that's LVM1 and RHEL3.
this is LVM2 and RHEL4.

Does anybody know if it's supported?
RH has notes on lvm2, gfs and RAC. I would hope they would
publish docs on certified configs.

I was also considering OCFS2 and expanding the LUN (i.e.
metalun), but can't find anything on how to extend the
partition. I think they said after growing the LUN, use
tuneocfs to extend the drive, but nothing about the partition.
maybe I'm misreading it.


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