Re: [suse-oracle] 11gR1 RAC on SLES
Ciro Iriarte <[email protected]>
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2009/8/17 Alexei_Roudnev <[email protected]>: > I have automated installation for sles10 sp2 / oracle rac 10.2.0.4 > > Works fine but require a few unusial steps (not because of SuSE but because > of RAC): > > 1) Upgrade to the kernel *39.3 (at least). original sles10 sp2 release had > broken aio. > > 2) I am nlt sure about 11R but 10.2.0.1 had crs not cpompatible and had a > bug in ocr fortmat. Solution - just copy files from 10.2.0.4. 11G don't have > this > problem, more likely. > > 3) Starting with 11.1.0.7 and 10.2.0.4, oracle switched from hangcheck-timer > to home-grown (!@#$) oprocd. By default, this beast wil kill the system > after any minor delay (I find out that it kiils in pretty easy). So you must > set up diagtimer 13 to make sure that oprocd runs with the margin 10 seconds > and not 1/2 second. > You can find a lot on the internet. > > 4) The whole CRS is a mess of bugs, glitches and so on. Timeouts influence > each other, oprocd had strange design and kills the system long before it is > necessary for the fencing. If you worn on Vmware, you must disable oprocd > totally; to make it al more funny, they change the variable DISABLE_OPROCD > meaning so that now 'true' means 'run it' and nkt 'skip it' and vice versa > (so I just 'chmod a-x oprocd' and enabled old hangon timer on VMware). > > In short, it is a lot of fun. I managed to install RAC in 3 hours from > scratch, but it is 40 steps script (*whcih do it). Good point is that, not > sure about 11.1.0.7, but 10.2.0.4 + CRS CPU patch + 88 database patches - do > work well (after all). > It would be nice to see papers with this kind of setups (current/latest Oracle on SLES, RAC and/or ASM), for example, people from my office don't like to "experiment", they demand "working/certified solutions" :s Having a paper to entertain them would be a good entry point for "experimenting" :P Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com -- _______________________________________________ suse-oracle mailing list [email protected] http://listx.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/suse-oracle