Re: 10g RAC with Veritas Cluster

From: Eberhard Niendorf <eberhard.niendorf_schrott_at_t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:01:16 +0200
Message-ID: <d2fb3u$jdm$02$1@news.t-online.com>

linda wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are looking to implement 10g RAC for one of the internal
> applications. Since we use Veritas volumne manager and Cluster, and 10g
> provides its own clustering software (hence not compatible with Veritas
> Cluster), we are in a dilema as to which way to go. If totally get rid
> of Veritas, then we need to use Oracle's disk management software as
> well.
>
> Anybody experience the same issue as we have? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Linda

What you are looking for is Veritas Foundation for Oracle 4.1, if you want to use Veritas. This version is certified and should work with 10g, but expensive. Look for the doc on http://support.veritas.com. I've no experience with RAC/10g on Veritas Oracle Cluster Edition, but with 9i. Since using RAC 9i on veritas-cluster the availability on RAC was lower than without RAC. Sometimes we had to reboot the whole Cluster (both machines at the same time), because of hanging oracle processes inside system calls (no kill -9 helped). It seems that it is fixed in the new version 4.1 and/or the corresponding MPs.

Eberhard Niendorf Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 17:01:16 CST