[libvirt-users] Oracle RAC in libvirt+KVM environment

Timon Wang timonwst at gmail.com
Thu Aug 8 07:54:28 UTC 2013


Anybody have idea on it?

I tried to set the disk as raw format, and retried the setup process,
but still can't get through.

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Timon Wang <timonwst at gmail.com> wrote:
> We wan't to setup two Oracle instance and make RAC work on them.
> Both VM are setup based on libvirt + KVM, we use a lvm lun which
> formated in qcow2 format and set the shareable properties in the disk
> driver like this:
>
>     <disk type='block' device='disk'>
>       <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
>       <source dev='/dev/81035c32-d2e4-4aaf-82fa-3e76ae587586/ca18f6a5-7c98-46ea-b562-9424e68a52f3'/>
>       <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
>       <shareable/>
>       <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
>     </disk>
>
> But when we use it as shared data disk like we use iscsi/FC disk for
> shared data disk, the disk can't be recognized as a share disk, and
> RAC can't be setup in the environment.
>
> Any body can give me some guild on this?
>
> I am wondering shareable in the libvirt config really makes the disk shareable?
>
> How can I setup the RAC environment in this situable?
>
> I found that vmware and vbox can do this according to a blog post, I
> am wondering if kvm has this ability to make a disk really shareable.
>
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