Re: Installing RAC on Win2K3 64-bit on OCFS

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:13:57 -0500
Message-ID: <ad3aa4c90808130713m18ce5841r7f2c4e9e2e9837c5@mail.gmail.com>


I have a very good guide called RacOnWindows.pdf. I downloaded it from somewhere, dont remember where. It uses asm and raw. Please email me privately if you would like a copy, but it is 4m even zipped, so it may not email to some systems.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:00 AM, <dannorris_at_dannorris.com> wrote:

> While I suspect you're not installing on VMWare, Tim Hall's recipe for
> installing RAC on Win2k3 may help (just ignore the VMWare parts):
>
> http://oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2RACInstallationOnWindows2003UsingVMware.php
> .
>
> Other than the installation guide (which is actually quite good), I don't
> know of any other guides.
>
> As a side note (not really a question to you, but to the world at large),
> why does it always seem that Windows environments are the only places
> where I encounter Xiotech storage arrays? Weird.
>
> Hope that helps, a little.
>
> Dan
>
> > I am doing a fresh install of RAC on Win2K3 (64-bit, R2) using OCFS,
> > does anyone have any best practices or practical application guides for
> > doing this sort of install. I am new to RAC and want to gather as much
> > information as possible before proceeding.
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, if any of you have any experience with a Xiotech SAN, that is the
> > storage platform I am using, if there are any special circumstances that
> > you know of doing RAC on OCFS with MPIO on Xiotech, I would be very
> > interested to hear about that.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
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> >
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