Iscsi or SAN NFS+ASM

Question

hi
my questions look stupid.but its a vary simple question.
Do i need any iscsi or SAN to install clusterware 11gR2 in OEL 5.4 x86_64?
regards

Answer 1

Gagan Arora wrote:
Try as root on
node1
# /etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk DATA <node2 nfs share>
#/etc/init.d/oracleasm createdisk FRA <node1 nfs share>
on node2
#/etc/init.d/oracleasm scandisks
#/etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks
DATA
FRA
if you dont want to use nfs you can create iscsi targets on each node and create iscsci initiator on each nodei dnt want iscsi.
>
DID you exactly min this?
[root@rac-1 ~]# mount /dev/sdb10 /u02
[root@rac-1 ~]# vi /etc/exports
[root@rac-1 ~]# exports -a
bash: exports: command not found
[root@rac-1 ~]# export -a
[root@rac-1 ~]# srvice nfs restart
bash: srvice: command not found
[root@rac-1 ~]# service nfs restart
Shutting down NFS mountd:                                  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS daemon:                                  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS quotas:                                  [  OK  ]
Shutting down NFS services:                                [  OK  ]
Starting NFS services:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd:                                       [  OK  ]
[root@rac-1 ~]# mount -t nfs rac-1:/u02 /mnt/rac-1/nfs1
[root@rac-1 ~]# oracleasm listdisks
VOLUME1
VOLUME2
VOLUME3
VOLUME4
[root@rac-1 ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOLUME5 /mnt/rac-1/nfs1
File "/mnt/rac-1/nfs1" is not a block device
[root@rac-1 ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOLUME5 rac-1:/u02
Unable to query file "rac-1:/u02": No such file or directory
[root@rac-1 ~]# i got only:
[root@rac-1 ~]# oracleasm createdisk VOLUME5 /mnt/rac-1/nfs1
File "/mnt/rac-1/nfs1" is not a block device
Edited by: you on Feb 22, 2010 5:35 AM