RAC 10G With SAN storage

Dear all
I am trying to install Oracle 10gR2 Database, buy using Cluster Hardware with 2 nodes and RAID SAN Storage, i was thinking i can go with oracle RAC, but is there any one can advice me if thats ok, and provide me with step-by-step installation manual, knowing that i am using Windows 2003 64-bit As OS, or if any can help me to install the best solution for my Case.

Check following link it will help
Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g RAC on Microsoft 64bit Windows
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http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/html/B14203_05/intro.htm#sthref44
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Hi [email protected],
Q1) where to put Flash Recovery Area (FRA)?
A1) With RAC: on the shared storage
I saw recommendations to put FRA on the ASM, is this the best way to do it?
If you want your backups to be available for both nodes you have to use shared storage or tape using an mml library.
So if you want to use the FRA for rman backups and the database is on ASM just make ASM the standard for the FRA as well.
Q2) Can I put FRA on another file system (not on the ASM) which is available only from Node1? This way I can save space on the ASM.
A2) Than you cannot recover in case Node1 is down. Best would be to send your storage admin to a training course so he can manage the clustered raw devices needed for ASM.
Q3) Is it possible/recommended to run RMAN from Node1 only?
A3) No see A2.
Regards,
Tycho

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Hi, all
I am installing a RAC 10g cluster with two linux nodes on VMware. I created a shared 5G disk for the two nodes as shared storage partition. By using OCFS2 tools, i formatted this shared storage partition and successfully auto mounted it on both nodes.
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------ Error Message ---
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1) uname -r
2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL
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Hello
I am not sure how far this following solution is relevant to your problem (regardless when it was originally posted - may help someone who is reading this thread), here is what I faced and here is how I fixed it:
I was setting up RAC using VMWare. I prepared rac1 [installed OS, configured disks, users, etc] and the made a copy of it as rac2. So far so good. When, as per the guide I was following for RAC configuration, I started OCFS2 configuration, faced the following error on RAC2 when I tried to mount the /dev/adb1:
===================================================
[Root @ *rac2* ~] # mount - t ocfs2 - o datavolume, nointr / dev / sdb1 / ocfs
ocfs2_hb_ctl: OCFS2 DIRECTORY corrupted WHILE reading uuid ocfs2_hb_ctl: OCFS2 DIRECTORY corrupted WHILE reading uuid
mount.ocfs2: Error WHEN attempting TO run / sbin / ocfs2_hb_ctl: "Operation not permitted" mount.ocfs2: Error WHEN attempting TO run / sbin / ocfs2_hb_ctl: "Operation not permitted"
===================================================
After a lot of "googling around", I finally bumped into a page, the kind person who posted the solution said [in my words below and more detailed ]:
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All this problem was apparently caused by not choosing "allocate all disk space now" option while creating the disk to be used for OCFS2.
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Good luck!
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[email protected]

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I am currently helping the sales guys with a tender. The customer requires the solution to be compatible for delivering Oracle RAC 10g and e-business 11i. we are proposing a combination of Cat6509E for the core with Infiniband server switches. Are these devices OK for use with Oracle. I have not much experience with Data centers and so any help is much appreciated.

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We have a digital media department that uses After Effects to produce content for different types of media boards, digital signage, post production etc. They start with Red 4K files which get edited in AE and rendered to different video formats. They want to move away from Windows PC based editors with multi drive RAID local storage to the new MAC Pro with 8GB fiber attached to a shared SAN storage solution. First question, is this a wise move to run After Effects? Second question is, do you need to create multiple logical volumes on the SAN storage to accommodate where AE render location, cache, source, database, and general media content files are stored or can this all be stored on different folders in one large 50TB volume? Third question is, should six different editors be sharing the location where these files are stored?

Third question is, should six different editors be sharing the location where these files are stored?
No. Each user should have his own home directory. Not for performance resons, but simply because they'll end up overwriting each other's files. The rest - logical volumes don't matter on your end, but SAN systems still use internal stripe groups, so it would make sense to define volumes on those stripe sets simply in the interest of performance. Beyond that AE doesn't really care. It uses the operating system's file I/O stuff and 'NIX based systems don't differentiate between local volumes or otehr resources as long as they are mounted correctly in teh file system.
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hi,
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I'm following Vincent Chan's article "Install Oracle RAC 10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux Using VMware Server" in order to get up to speed on Oracle RAC on Linux. I've had good success so far but it appears that when the kernel was created it was created as smp even though I only had processor count set to 1. I went on to choose the oracleasm-2.6.9-42.0.0.1EL driver for UP kernel not realizing I had an smp kernel. Now that I'm trying to create ASM disks I get the following message:
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: [ OK ]
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Hi Frits,
I had the same problem but could not find the right rpm.
Can you give the URL?
My problem:
[root@rac2 ~]# /etc/init.d/oracleasm configure
Configuring the Oracle ASM library driver.
This will configure the on-boot properties of the Oracle ASM library
driver. The following questions will determine whether the driver is
loaded on boot and what permissions it will have. The current values
will be shown in brackets ('[]'). Hitting <ENTER> without typing an
answer will keep that current value. Ctrl-C will abort.
Default user to own the driver interface []: oracle
Default group to own the driver interface []: dba
Start Oracle ASM library driver on boot (y/n) [n]: y
Fix permissions of Oracle ASM disks on boot (y/n) [y]: y
Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: [ OK ]
Loading module "oracleasm": Unable to load module "oracleasm"
[FAILED]
[root@rac2 cmshare]# uname -r
2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.ELsmp
[root@rac2 cmshare]# rpm -qa | grep oracleasm
oracleasmlib-2.0.2-1
oracleasm-support-2.0.3-2
oracleasm-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2
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