[Ocfs2-users] RAC Shared Disk..?
Luis Freitas
lfreitas34 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 16 16:25:02 PDT 2008
Abhishek,
Depends on what you intend to use OCFS2 for.
Since you want to test Oracle RAC, the best options would be to go with a iSCSI setup or use a firewire shared disk, to get a configuration close to what is supported by Oracle . For both options you will need a third computer to "simulate" the storage, and for the firewire also the firewire adapters for the three computers. For the iSCSI you can use "OpenFiler", which has a browser based interface to create the iSCSI volume, and it can run on the same ethernet where you run the cluster interconnect, or on a third separate adapter on each server.
Nowadays iSCSI seems to be prefered over firewire, the Oracle people here may have a better indication on which to use.
If you only intended to run other services, like Apache you could try with DRDB. But for installing RAC I would not recommend it as would be very different from what a RAC production environment should look like.
Also you can simulate the two nodes and the "shared storage" on a single machine using VMWare server. There are some howtos on this subject on www.oracle-base.com (But none for the particular setup you want to achieve).
Regards,
Luis
--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Abhishek Sahu <Abhishek.Sahu at entity-solutions.com> wrote:
From: Abhishek Sahu <Abhishek.Sahu at entity-solutions.com>
Subject: [Ocfs2-users] RAC Shared Disk..?
To: Ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 9:06 AM
Dear All,
I am preparing a two node cluster on
simple LINUX desktop systems. Both systems have 80 GB of hard disk; I don’t
have any additional storage.
Now I want to know the procedure for
making a shared disk space out or these two available hard disks. Can any body
help me out in this experiment?
Also if any body can send me a detailed
installation document for RAC on Linux (other than given on oracle website),
then it will be a great help for me.
Thanks in Advance,
Abhishek
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