Re: [suse-oracle] 11gR1 RAC on SLES

Ciro Iriarte <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.oracle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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