Re: Mixing RAC interconnect with other clusters

  • From: "Nadeem M. Khan" <nadeem.m.khan@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hacketta_57@xxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:09:56 +0400

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
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