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shahfar
Level 5
14 years ago

SF CFS for RAC without GCO option

Hi Everyone, I have a cluster setup where I have a 2 node primary SF CFS for RAC cluster (for RHEL) and a single node as DR for the same. I am suing VVR to replicate the volumes accross to DR. I do...
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  • mikebounds's avatar
    mikebounds
    14 years ago

    Just to clarify some permutations:

    You can have SFCFS with failover Oracle - here Oracle only runs on one node at a time (controlled by VCS Oracle resources), so don't need an Oracle RAC license

    SFCFS with Parallel Oracle RAC - here Oracle runs on both nodes in parallel, and this can be done in Solaris, but not sure about Linux (you didn't used to be able to do this with Linux) and I THINK even though you are using SFCFS (as oppose to Oracle Filesystem) you can choose whether VCS or CRS controls Oracle.

    Mike

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mikebounds
Level 6
14 years ago

Just to clarify some permutations:

You can have SFCFS with failover Oracle - here Oracle only runs on one node at a time (controlled by VCS Oracle resources), so don't need an Oracle RAC license

SFCFS with Parallel Oracle RAC - here Oracle runs on both nodes in parallel, and this can be done in Solaris, but not sure about Linux (you didn't used to be able to do this with Linux) and I THINK even though you are using SFCFS (as oppose to Oracle Filesystem) you can choose whether VCS or CRS controls Oracle.

Mike