Re: oracle linux
- From: "sol beach" <sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:35:59 -0700
Last week I made a nasty discovery, V10.2 OUI is not capable to add node to
RAC when voting disk & OCR reside on OCFS2 filesystem. It can install a
complete new cluster, but fails when trying to add a new node.
At least this was my experience on RHEL5.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Yes, I am. He may have been talking about clustering software? Or maybe
> the clustered file system? You want to use oracles crs and OCFS2 in a RAC
> system on Linux.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I was on a project a couple of years ago, where the SAN admin told us to
>> buy some 3rd party software to make the files visible to the linux server.
>> your telling me this was probably incorrect advice ?
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Kerber
>> <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Your understanding is incorrect. The SAN would come with the required
>>> drivers, and iscsi works just fine too.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Dba DBA
>>> <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know this is not a sys admin forum, but this is an oracle product so I
>>>> hope its ok.
>>>>
>>>> My understanding is that in order to have a linux server see files on a
>>>> SAN(and I would guess a netapp too) is that you need to purchase a 3rd
>>>> party
>>>> driver that you install. It does not come out of the box. I forgot the
>>>> brand
>>>> the project I was on bought a couple of years ago when this issue came up.
>>>>
>>>> do you have to purchase this 3rd party software for oracle enterprise
>>>> linux ? Its not vendor specific to the SAN.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>>
>>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Andrew W. Kerber
>
> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>
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