I have a very good guide called RacOnWindows.pdf. I downloaded it from somewhere, dont remember where. It uses asm and raw. Please email me privately if you would like a copy, but it is 4m even zipped, so it may not email to some systems. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:00 AM, <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While I suspect you're not installing on VMWare, Tim Hall's recipe for > installing RAC on Win2k3 may help (just ignore the VMWare parts): > > http://oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2RACInstallationOnWindows2003UsingVMware.php > . > > Other than the installation guide (which is actually quite good), I don't > know of any other guides. > > As a side note (not really a question to you, but to the world at large), > why does it always seem that Windows environments are the only places > where I encounter Xiotech storage arrays? Weird. > > Hope that helps, a little. > > Dan > > > I am doing a fresh install of RAC on Win2K3 (64-bit, R2) using OCFS, > > does anyone have any best practices or practical application guides for > > doing this sort of install. I am new to RAC and want to gather as much > > information as possible before proceeding. > > > > > > > > Also, if any of you have any experience with a Xiotech SAN, that is the > > storage platform I am using, if there are any special circumstances that > > you know of doing RAC on OCFS with MPIO on Xiotech, I would be very > > interested to hear about that. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brad > > > > > > > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'