Re: 9iRAC/AIX5.2 Installation Questions

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1079267739.527863_at_yasure...
>

>>A. Fuentes wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Fellow Oracle Users:
>>>
>>>I will be installing 9iRAC on two AIX nodes.
>>>
>>>
>>>1)Any pointers to web resources and guides?.
>>>
>>>2)Any pitfalls/advice?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>>A. Fuentes
>>
>>Keep the IBM consulting team, especially the DB2 ones, as far away
>>from your checkbook and your hardware as you can.
>>
>>Be very sure to test that you have a clustered file system before
>>proceeding to install anything from Oracle.

Then there is not cluster file system to test.

> I think you mean 'test you have a working cluster before worrying about the
> Oracle stuff'.

You are correct.

> In which case, fair enough, though it is equally plausible to install
> non-RAC Oracle executables onto two separate machines, cluster the machines,
> and then add in the extra RAC components (otherwise how would you ever be
> able to upgrade from single instance Oracle to multi-instance?).

You can but if problems exist they are far harder to diagnose.

> Because of
> the myriad problems you can get with the bit of the install where Oracle
> replicates the executables over the interconnect to the second node, it is
> actually (IMHO) preferable to minimise the amount of stuff to be transferred
> in such a way precisely by doing a RAC-less install onto each machine first.
> Only the RAC-specific executables then get pushed across the interconnect.
>
> Regards
> HJR
I would agree with you except that, at least with RedHat EL AS 3.0 we have so far been unable to make it work. I'll grant it is a 3.0 issue ... but an issue non-the-less.

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