RE: compelling arguments for a ThirdParty Cluster

  • From: "Oliver Jost" <Oliver.Jost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Oracle-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:01:11 -0500

Yes, with proper installation and hardware configuration all of the
issues you've listed are not really that big.  Check out the Oracle docs
on OTN for specifics (e.g. Solaris offers IPMP on the interconnect to
accommodate failover).  There are mechanisms in place for data to be
protected in the event of node failure.
 
Oliver

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LS Cheng
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:47 AM
To: hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L
Subject: Re: compelling arguments for a ThirdParty Cluster


simple words

if Oracle Clusterware fencing is not reliable we would have seen already
data corruptions issues

plus, RAC internally has algorithm to avoid data corruptions when cache
fusion communications suffers problems 

interconnect is not SPOF if you protect it with bonding or teaming

I am not sure what is your point about LUNs but I have been in many
sites and asking for 5 1GB LUNs does not seem problem at all


Thanks

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On Jan 17, 2008 3:14 PM, hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


        Hi
        
        I am looking it from a prespective off SLA's
        for ex the document mentions
        
        a)Establishing dependencies between clusterware
        storage and RAC databases to ensure that the shutdown
        in the correct sequence.The sun clusterware allows the
        oracle clusterware to be stopped before the
        filesystems are stopped.
        
        b)It also suggests that there is a scope for oracle
        clusterware to evict a node and yet not reboot it 
        immedaitely .The remaning nodes start recovering the
        transactions however the evicted continues to write to
        the datafiles during the period of eviction to the
        point where it falls down to the boot prompt it will 
        lead to corruption
        
        There are some other points
        Like
        a)interconnect connect being single point of failure
        b)How to provision voting disks and OCR should i ask
        the storage admins to carve out 5 1GB LUNS so i can 
        mirror them ?
        c)Would the storage admin object if i ask 5 1GB luns
        to be carved out for me as mostly they allocate LUNS
        of 64 GB 100Gb etc
        
        regards
        Hrishy
        




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