[Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3

[Vedal, Ramesh, IG]

I did buy a western digital firewire disk and ieee 1394 adaptec firewire cards for about 300$. I could connect to firewire disk using any node but unfortunately was not supporting mutiuser.  I was told the sbp device that I purchased was not supporting mutiuser. We completed the tests using NFS instead of firewire for tests,
 
My suggestion test the device before the warrany ends. Best of luck.
 
Ramesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Ty Eckard [mailto:jon.eckard at oracle.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:31 AM
To: Chapman, Kyle
Cc: firewire-users at oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3


Any Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller should work.  For the drive enclosure, I've heard that the combo (firewire/USB2.0) are sometimes a little unstable with OCFS.  I recently bought a MicroNet 160GB combo for a little over $200 (US).  It has worked well, so far.  I haven't yet put an OCFS filesystem on it, though.  I'll post my testing results here when I do.

Chapman, Kyle wrote:


it used to work with 2.1 than was broken...  it now should work on 3.  we trie to get the 2.1 stuff to work but went with a scsi cluster to test with.  we have a prod cluster with sun/veritas with 91 on emc disk thats quite nice.  im going back to the firewire again as we have all the hw sitting around.  we used adaptec 4300 cards (t1 chipset) and oxford 911 chipset firewire disks.  as long as you have rhel3 running with the cards/disks with the correct chipsets, from the recent firewire test binaries, you should be good.



-----Original Message-----

From: Josh Hildebrand [ mailto:josh at newgistics.com]

Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:27 AM

To:  firewire-users at oss.oracle.com

Subject: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3





This mailing list doesn't seem to get much (if any) traffic, so I'm not sure

who is out there.  I thought it couldn't hurt to spark a conversation.



I'm tasked with testing out an Oracle RAC solution this quarter.  I need to

get some hardware ordered, and I'm curious if people out there wouldn't mind

helping me determine what the "best bang for your buck" out there is with

regard to:



Large Firewire hard drive that's compatible w/ at least 2 nodes and sbp2.

Firewire PCI controllers (compatible for this solution)



Also, I've been reading up Werner Pushitz's site ( http://www.puschitz.com)

and have been floored with his installation details.  Totally fantastic.

However, I want to combine two of his articles and make Oracle 9i RAC on

RHEL3.  Actually, I plan on putting it on either White Box EL, or CentOS 3,

since this is just for a test environment.  Obviously production would get a

real SAN and RHEL3.  Does anyone have any tips on putting RAC on a couple of

WBEL3/RHEL3 boxes?  I see that Manish Singh released new kernels for RHEL3

to include the firewire clustering code.  So, it must be feasible.



Thanks in advance!



--

Josh Hildebrand

Senior Network Engineer

Newgistics, Inc... The Leader in Returns Management Solutions

512-225-6044

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