Hi... On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Lon Hohberger <lhh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I will :) > 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). I have that in mind, yes. > 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. The client is dead set against a RAID array, partly on cost (budget v.tight), but also on physical space in the rack - there's only 2U left, and a new rack costs £1000 pcm. Do I recall mention of cmirror + GNBD as a possible solution to shared-nothing, no-disk-array setups? > -- Lon S. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
