<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' background='none' style='font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);width:100%;'><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Abhishek,<br><br> Depends on what you intend to use OCFS2 for.<br><br> 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. <br><br> Nowadays iSCSI seems to be prefered over firewire,
the Oracle people here may have a better indication on which to use.<br><br> 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.<br><br> 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).<br><br>Regards,<br>Luis<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 6/16/08, Abhishek Sahu <i><Abhishek.Sahu@entity-solutions.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Abhishek Sahu <Abhishek.Sahu@entity-solutions.com><br>Subject: [Ocfs2-users] RAC Shared Disk..?<br>To: Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com<br>Date: Monday, June 16, 2008,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Dear All,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">I am preparing a two node cluster on
simple LINUX desktop systems. Both systems have 80 GB of hard disk; I donąt
have any additional storage.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">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?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">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. </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoAutoSig"><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Thanks in Advance,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoAutoSig"><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Abhishek </span></font></p>
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