Re: HMP support in 10g RAC

Hi Sriram -

It's not clear to me from your message who told (or pushed) you into HMP. Was it Oracle folks? If yes, who?

Mogens

Sriram Kumar wrote:

> Hi Gurus,
>
> We are presently using a HP Itanium2 cluster running Oracle 9i RAC.
> We are to migrate soon to 10g RAC. Was surpised to find a note in
> metalink that says that HMP is not supported in Oracle 10g RAC. Note
> id 220970.1
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> Is HMP supported with 10g on all HP platforms ?
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>- 10g RAC + HMP + PA-RISC = yes
>- 10g RAC + HMP + Itanium, "Oracle has no plans and will likely never
>support RAC over HMP on IPF."
>- 10g RAC + UDP + Itanium = yes (even over Hyperfabric)
>"Oracle recommends that HMP not be used. UDP is the recommended interconnect protocol \
across all platforms."
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>When we migrated to Oracle9i RAC, we were said (rather pushed) that HMP would be much \
better that UDP and we bought expensive HyperFabric switches and now Oracle cooly says HMP \ is not supported now we will have to run UDP on these HyperFabric switches
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>Thought this would help others in the list using HMP or planning to buy Hyper Fabric
>
>Best Regards
>
>Sriram Kumar
>
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>

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