Well, for 9i, you are limited to VCS 5.0MP3RP4 Live upgrade with ZFS root has saved my company's bacon more time than I can count. The occasional loss of grub menu recently after an lu_activate was annoying but resulted in our downtime window being about 75 minutes longer than expected for a 4 node cluster upgrade.
Ben On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Hudes, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > Developers esp database in our agency balk at any downtime during the day and > any other changes. > You could argue a failure of leadership in upper management but OTOH they are > paid whether its up or not so we don't want downtime. Cluster also gives > forced conformity. Yes you can go around updating systems and OpsCenter 11g > is great and you could use Live Upgrade but that is another leadership > failure partly offset by the point that the development aren't all on same > revision of OS etc and so are afraid that since noone else was the guinea pig > it will break their database (even Oracle dbms because they might even be as > recent as 10g but still have 9i running). > > Real life in an institution suffering a long period of this sort of thing is > messy. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed May 18 12:30:38 2011 > Subject: Re: [ldoms-discuss] Veritas > > for development DB why need cluster at all? > just use SAN to snapshot lun and move between hosts, the key is use > Virtual IP (not phys-IP addess) > so one can move the application very easily between hosts (after you > move the storage) > > > On 5/18/2011 12:18 PM, Hung-ShengTsao (Lao Tsao) Ph.D. wrote: >> >> >> On 5/18/2011 12:13 PM, Hudes, Dana wrote: >>> Because RAC is for parallel database clusters and that is a separate >>> project by someone else who has to deal a DBA who won't let him use >>> any zones or LDOMs or zfs even for boot of the platform. Or patch the >>> cluster. Or get RAC to actually serve queries to production clients. >>> For 3 years now. >>> >>> I have many disparate apps including Informix 7 and 11.5 and various >>> development databases. >>> >>> RAC with no Oracle database to run in parallel is a rather expensive >>> toy. >> sure but without rac, you doesnot have to worry about qfs or >> c-vxvm/CFS etc >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: >>> [email protected]<[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected]<[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wed May 18 12:02:33 2011 >>> Subject: Re: [ldoms-discuss] Veritas >>> >>> why not just install oracle 11gr2 rac/asm without vcs or osc (without >>> qfs or vxfs)? >>> >>> >>> On 5/18/2011 11:53 AM, Hudes, Dana wrote: >>>> Anyone know anything about LDOM2 support and Veritas Storage >>>> Foundation (vxfs.vxvm) , Veritas Cluster 5 both HA and CFS (parallel >>>> cluster filesystem)? >>>> >>>> For that matter any gotchas with QFS? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Dana Hudes >>>> HRA MIS UNIX >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ldoms-discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ldoms-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss > _______________________________________________ > ldoms-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss > _______________________________________________ ldoms-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ldoms-discuss
