Re: Oracle RAC listener on a 2nd network

  • From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:04:04 -0500

Just noticed this old thread.

FYI - I recently helped architect and manage an environment with a lot of
databases where two networks (and multiple RAC dbs per cluster) were the
standard for all deployments. There was a public network for client traffic
but data guard traffic went over a backup network. I believe our internal
processes were based on the note Raj mentioned [1063571.1]. This was all on
11.2.0.3 with recent PSUs applied and it works very well.

There's only one problem that I remember. When adding a new node to a
cluster, the root.sh script which adds the node can't handle the extra
network and fails.  It creates the second network but doesn't add the VIP,
then attempts to start the vips which fails.  The workaround I found was to
open a second terminal window and run the following command while root.sh
is running:

srvctl add vip -n <NODENAME> -A <NODE-BVIP-IP>/255.255.254.0 -k 2

Other than that, the second network worked great for us on 11gR2.  It's all
managed by the GI clusterware so failover, listeners, etc work as they
should.

-Jeremy



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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Martin Bach
<development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> You are welcome.
>
> When I started putting my notes on WordPress I realised that the post's
> length got out of hand a bit. Next pieces to follow end of the week and
> next week. I had all of this written down in February but haven't come
> around posting it.
>
> Martin
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> Martin Bach
> Enkitec
> martincarstenbach.wordpress.com

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