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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.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Sun Mar 14 2004 - 13:24:49 CST
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