Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread prem
Is it possible to download the ORAC software from some site, if so where from..?

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:19:21PM -0800, Tim Gorman wrote: A couple of anecdotes to consider: a.. Some folks from the Oak Table forum (www.oaktable.net) recently (last July) constructed a 10-node cluster of Linux laptops right on the conference floor at Oracle Open World in Copenhagen,

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters If I remember right we had some problems with gsd and nfs ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/23/02 09:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters Tim - Gee, during the original presentation I attended, RAC

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
NetApp is NFS; so are all current NAS products... The phrases NetApp and cheap are *always* used together -- it is their most compelling feature. CFOs love NetApps. For database usage however, they are best used in non-demanding situations (i.e. low I/O volumes). The phrase filer is very apt

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:43:38AM -0800, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: If I remember right we had some problems with gsd and nfs ... could you elaborate? === Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC28^D -- Please

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:53:27AM -0800, Tim Gorman wrote: NetApp is NFS; so are all current NAS products... The phrases NetApp and cheap are *always* used together -- it is their most compelling feature. CFOs love NetApps. For database usage however, The netapp sales guy I talked with

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters We had the user which owns oracle was nfs mounted across two machines using nfs. i.e. user oraclei home directory was nfs mounted across tow machines. When we used srvctl to start instances occasionally it used to hang when bringing up the 'other

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
IMHO, the main requirement is that you have to have a systemthat needs to be up 24x7 on a cluster and your ability to fork enough money to Oracle and your server vendor (to get two identical machines) and your networking vendor (for redundant network connections). Rest everything is easy

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread Tim Gorman
t ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:43 AM Subject: RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters IMHO, the main requirement is that you have to have a systemthat needs to be up 24x7 on a cluster and your ability to fork enough money to Oracle and your server vendor (to get two

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
ts of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters Aye to that, but you'll need at least two, possibly three, identical clusters, not just one. One clusterfor production and an identicalcluster for QA/Test, and possibly one for development (though that last is ofte

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
We are performing a rather detailed POC of RAC within a SUN environment... Be glad to share some details once we complete this to those interestedI'm hoping for a detailed document with detailed use cases... But that does assume those who are in the separate areas will accomplish that as

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tim - Gee, during the original presentation I attended, RAC was presented as a cost-saving feature. Something about being able to use a lot of cheap Linux servers. This stuck me as a little odd at the time. Just now, I looked at the white papers that Oracle posts on the subject, and I didn't see

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread Tim Gorman
it's going to cost, later if not sooner... - Original Message - From: "DENNIS WILLIAMS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters Tim - Gee, dur

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread prem
Hi, Could you please give me the links to these white papers...? DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/23/02 09:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Oracle Real

Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-23 Thread prem
Dear All, We are planning to implement ORAC for our application, can anybody tell me where to get good information on the system requirements for implementing the same. Regards Prem