[Ocfs2-users] RAC Shared Disk..?

[Luis Freitas]

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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