Veritas Cluster Server and IBM PowerVM

[alex_kaz]

Hello!

We are looking for a clustering solution for our Oracle databases on IBM AIX5.3. AIX nodes will be hosted on the IBM PowerVM DLPARs and in case of failover or takeover we will have to reconfigure DLPAR with additional resources (add CPU and Memory). Can we do it with Veritas Cluster Server or our only solution is HACMP?

[mikebounds · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can so this with VCS - you need to use MemCPUAllocator agent - see extract from Bundled Agent guide:

        Use the MemCPUAllocator agent to allocate CPU and memory to an IBM AIX

        dedicated partition. Set this resource’s attribute values to specify the amount of

        CPU and memory that you want to allocate to a service group on a DLPAR.

        Configure this resource as a leaf node in the service group dependency tree.

Mike