[Linux-cluster] oracle 10g installation on RHCS-4

[Lon Hohberger]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 08:46 -0500, Brian Long wrote:

> Being fairly new to Oracle clustering (failover or RAC), I have a dumb
> question.  I just read documentation from Oracle about their Clusterware
> product which is part of the 10g software.  A RAC license is not
> required to use Clusterware.  Why would you deploy 10g failover on RHCS
> instead of Clusterware?  Would you do this only if you've already got
> RHCS installed on a few nodes and you're adding 10g to the config?

That's a key reason.  There are advantages and disadvantages to both
approaches.  It comes down to preferences, mostly.

Using linux-cluster (aka RHCS, in this case)...

- You do not need to provision raw devices for membership (or anything
at all, actually)
- You get the benefits of fencing (for those who are paranoid ;) )
- You can use ext3 as the back-end store for any and all parts of the
database installation.

Obviously, whether any of the above is an advantage to you is a matter
of preference too ;)

-- Lon