> Has anyone tried setting up an Oracle RAC installation? It is documented > in the new Oracle/zLinux Redbook, just wondering what experiences anyone > had. Thanks, RF
Works as documented, or as well as RAC ever does. For it to be any use for survivability, you really need to do it in a CSE environment with two systems or LPARs and split the cluster members across the two instances. Shared DASD is necessary, which is complicated to set up and maintain with FCP disk. Networking really needs to do layer 2 VSWITCH with VLANs managed by goodly sized switches between the machines to do the heartbeats efficiently. Short version: it's as much of a PITA to manage as RAC is on discrete systems. Given that the underlying infrastructure (CSE, VM, System Z) is orders of magnitude more reliable and stable than the discrete system approach, it's probably overkill for anything short of absolutely critical systems (which, IMHO, are the principal justifying reason for z/OS parallel sysplexes, and once you have a parallel sysplex in play, we're talking about a whole 'nother level of RAS, and RAC is pretty pathetic in that arena). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
