On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 11:14 +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I want to implement a shared-nothing active/passive failover cluster > for Oracle 10g. RAC is out of budget. > > I'm looking at drbd + heartbeat or cluster suite. > > Any experiences? recommendations? gotchas? > > In particular, any idea whether Oracle would support a non-RAC setup? They support non-RAC configurations, but I doubt they would support running the database on DRBD. You should call Oracle on this one. Also, I **think** buying Oracle Database 10g Release 2 these days gets you Oracle's failover technology called Cluster Ware - so you might not need heartbeat or rgmanager (Cluster Suite component that provides failover for off-the-shelf apps). Again, call Oracle and ask. They want your money, so surely they will answer your questions ;) If you're going to spend the money for Oracle (and you need failover support), I'd really recommend getting a FC or iSCSI RAID array with dual redundant internal controllers and a remote power switch. There are some good SCSI arrays available at lower price points than FC and often iSCSI solutions, as well (but stay away from JBOD/host-RAID configurations). -- Lon -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
