Re: RAC on windows 2003 - 32-bit - nightmare

I'd be investigating two areas in particular

1. the two networks - public and private - make sure that they are manually configured with the appropriate speed and duplex settings etc.
2. The shared storage. Make sure that that is absolutely correctly configured - there is a utility for this.

When I setup a Windows SE RAC on HP kit we had similar (but not as severe) issues and we found that we absolutely needed the latest firmware revisions and drivers for both the GbE cards and the HBAs. I can't recall now if we determined that through metalink or HP though. Presumably DELL will also update firmware and drivers as well.

On 9/30/07, sam roberts <sam112233_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> I have just inherited a RAC 2 node database: Using DELL Poweredge 2950
> Servers with 16GB RAM and DELL power vault MD3000 SAS Storage:
> I have previously absolutely no experience on Windows, as Im UNIX and
> LINUX and as I mentioned I inherited this built.
>
> The problem is that when both Nodes are up and running there are many
> problems:
> 1)running a 5 minute export takes 5 hours and times out - session_wait
> says busy_buffer
> 2)ora600 and ora-04031 errors on client and eventually cant log in
> 3)tns12170 errors intermittently when logging in
> 4) lots off warnings of global_cacahe_wait excessive:
>
> When we switch one node of the performance and everything runs normally. I
> have been told this is the 3rd build of this system and it happened
> everytime.
> I am suspecting the network right config right now.
>
> Please any suggestions from you guys would be highly appreciative.
>

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