Kevin You are right that What I documented to the mgmt is not what I projected. But anyway it saved mine job as I am able to get it working in 2 days. I know that Installing and configuring the Envrionment is not a major hurdle but how to usitlise the Services to really get RAC benefit is another Task. I am working on it extensively at all places so as to clearly understand the concept and utilize it. thanks Again for all comments Sanjay Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: reading this post made me think of this: http://chaokhun.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/8051sbc/8051sbc.html --------------------------------- From: Sanjay Mishra [mailto:smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:55 PM To: kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Very Urgent RAC Thanks to everyone for suggestion. I am able to get all 4 node RAC Working on Linux RHEL 4 on 64 bit platform and using Oracle 10g Rel2. Thanks to Indy who sent me a very step by screen shot document for 6 node setup which was very close to me. He has used Raw devices for Oracle CLuster files and so I also finally used Raw devices as Oracle 10g Installer is not able to see the OCFS2 even it was installed successfully (1.0.9) version and I had mounted the OCFS2 filesystem with datavolumen option. An interesting thing is that Indy has given step by stpe usage of Cluvy command and when I started, mine Kernel was 2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.ELsmp and I installed OCFS2 (1.0.4) and when I ran Clufy to check the SSA option, it shows that Shared storage is visible but as I am getting some other issue and so I decided to upgrade it to 2.6.9.22 as per Indy doc and even upgraded the OCFS2 to 1.0.9 but then Cluvfy stopped showing the shared storage. Earlier I was not able to get ASMLib driver for 2.6.9-11.0.0.10.3.ELsmp on otn site but it work perfect with 2.6.9.22 and everything went exactly as per the doc. I admit that I am not an experienced but sometime some guidelines will really help and I got it lot of time from the list expert and I say again thanks to all of you as it is beacuse of the experts in the list that I am almost done with mine setup. Mine database for ASM as well as Cluster databasse is on SAM storage. Thanks Sanjay Mishra Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>Sanjay, my advice is to create a 3rd machine with FC4, which >>>has NFS4. >>>NFS4 has the same improvements over the traditional NFS3 >>>protocol as NetApp. When you do that, you can put plain, old >>>JFS on FC4 and you don't have anything to do with OCFS. For production? Mladen, this is sarcasm right? I can't begin to count the differences between plain old Linux NFS4 and the NFS server implementation (including specialized hardware) that a NetApp filer offers. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos ? Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we?ll bind it! --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos ? Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we?ll bind it!