Oracle 10g RAC on solaris 10 installation

Question

hi
i want to know the default file location of following:
oracle base
oracle home
control files
redo log files
data files
plz tell me exactly the default path for all the above

Answer 1

I'm assuming you mean running RAC with or without Sun Cluster? If so, the answer is that there would almost no difference in most cases. The only case I can think of would be if you had a sub-optimal interconnect without Sun Cluster where Sun Cluster's clprivnet would have given you striping and availability for free.
I am currently working on a Blueprint that describes the important differences between the two configurations (with and without SC). They can broadly be summarised as:
Sun Cluster gives you:
* Better data integrity protection
* Faster, more reliable node failure detection
* Makes your name space homogeneous, simplifying installation and device management (DID structure), so no need for messy symbolic links
* Gives you a highly available, striped cluster interconnect for the Cache Fusion traffic. (No need for tricky IPMP or link aggregation configurations.)
* Allows you to use volume managers link Solaris Volume Manager or VxVM
* Provides support for shared QFS as a file system for all Oracle objects, data includes (while still allowing ASM)
* A substantial collection of Sun written and supported agents to manage other applications you might also have on your cluster, e.g. NFS, SAP, Apache, etc, etc.
Hope that helps,
Tim
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