Hi, On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:35:45AM +0200, Bunter, Matthew wrote: > Hi, > > > > Apologies for the length of this mail. > > > > I've seen the success stories with Oracle usage on Linux HA configured > machines, but I was wondering if what has been requested of me was > 'normal' for Linux HA usage and if anyone had any gotchas that they > could share. > > > > At present we have an active - passive cluster (Red Hat EL 4 with Oracle > 10.2.0.3). IIUC, the filesystems containing the Oracle binaries and the > Oracle database datafiles (control, redo, temp, *.ora etc) get moved if > the active node goes down. > > > > What is being asked of me is this. Install another set of Oracle > binaries (same version) reason being that these binaries may need to be > patched - this isn't an issue for me. The binaries need to be installed > not by 'oracle' - the owner of the already installed binaries, but by > another user, for example 'oracleX' - this is for the filesystem move > that operates in terms or UNIX userid and Oracle_home. This bothers me.
This is not a problem, apart from having to maintain two copies of oracle. > It also bothers me that we are going to change from an active - passive > cluster to active - active. Two instances running at the same time? That's also fine. > I have not and probably will not be able to test this new setup. Every significant change should be tested, of course. > The info that I have so far : its not supported by Oracle Perhaps you'll get better support in some oracle forum. The cluster has no problem with active/active configurations. Whether the resource itself (in this case oracle) may work with that is another question. Thanks, Dejan > > Cheers, > > > > Matt > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
