[gentoo-cluster] Oracle Grid/RAC?

[gentoo-cluster] Oracle Grid/RAC?

[Troy Bowman]

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The CIO at the company I work is all excited about the redundancy,
high-availability, and economics of running Oracle RAC on inexpensive
Linux nodes (Instead of monolithic Oracle on our expensive IBM pSeries
and AIX beef)  Oracle has their own "Enterprise" distro (or they condone
RHEL or SLES).  All of those distros make me want to run away and
hide :)

Before you go into telling me about having a neck to strangle when
things go wrong, I understand that.  I understand that Gentoo isn't an
accountable "Enterprise" Linux.  But I can fix library problems with
Gentoo.  I can also optimize things with Gentoo.  I'm sure I don't have
to preach about Gentoo's virtues here.  Suffice it to say, I would very
much rather use gentoo than those evil RPM-based distros.

Is anyone here running Oracle Grid/RAC on Gentoo?  I haven't been able
to find anything on the web about it.  I've only found the "HOWTO
Install Oracle 10g", sans RAC.  Are several hoops to jump through?  Has
anyone has written ebuilds for the supporting cluster management tools
that Oracle Enterprise Linux has?  Are there any resources on the web
that you know about for Gentoo and RAC?


Thanks.


../troy

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Re: [gentoo-cluster] Oracle Grid/RAC?

[Jordi Prats]

Hi,
I don't have a Oracle RAC on a Gentoo (I have it on a 3 node cluster
using RHEL4 instead) It's installation I'm almost sure will be quite
straightforward, but it will warn you about networking and other
issues because it would not find it's configuration files

If you find any problem that you can't solve you can always install
app-arch/rpm or use app-arch/rpm2targz ;)

If you decide to install it, I would like to hear from you how do you
manage to do it and if you had any problem!

best regards,
Jordi

On 9/19/07, Troy Bowman <troy@dublan.net> wrote:
>
> The CIO at the company I work is all excited about the redundancy,
> high-availability, and economics of running Oracle RAC on inexpensive
> Linux nodes (Instead of monolithic Oracle on our expensive IBM pSeries
> and AIX beef)  Oracle has their own "Enterprise" distro (or they condone
> RHEL or SLES).  All of those distros make me want to run away and
> hide :)
>
> Before you go into telling me about having a neck to strangle when
> things go wrong, I understand that.  I understand that Gentoo isn't an
> accountable "Enterprise" Linux.  But I can fix library problems with
> Gentoo.  I can also optimize things with Gentoo.  I'm sure I don't have
> to preach about Gentoo's virtues here.  Suffice it to say, I would very
> much rather use gentoo than those evil RPM-based distros.
>
> Is anyone here running Oracle Grid/RAC on Gentoo?  I haven't been able
> to find anything on the web about it.  I've only found the "HOWTO
> Install Oracle 10g", sans RAC.  Are several hoops to jump through?  Has
> anyone has written ebuilds for the supporting cluster management tools
> that Oracle Enterprise Linux has?  Are there any resources on the web
> that you know about for Gentoo and RAC?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ../troy
>
>


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