Thank you all for your inputs. The white paper was pretty useful. We will be pushing for dedicated switches but if the client does not agree; will settle for the next best option of having dedicated VLANs for each type of cluster. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Austin Hackett <hacketta_57@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Nadeem > > I don't know if you've seen this recent-ish (2012) white paper before? > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/clusterware/overview/interconnect-vlan-06072012-1657506.pdf > > It gives an overview of Oracle's recommendations around sharing the > interconnect network, VLANs etc. > > Personally, for simplicity, I'd prefer a couple of dedicated unmanaged > switches for each cluster. However, I'm yet to find an organisation where > the network team will give me anything other than a dedicated private VLAN. > There's a good blog article on this by James Morle here: > http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk/2011/11/14/simplicity-is-good/ > > Thanks > > Austin > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >