Rac Windows/2000

Hi OPS/RAC Gurus,
It is possible to partition Storage Area Newtwork(SAN) hard disk into Oracle Clustered File(OCF) System, and NTFile System(NTFS), for staging of RAC Oracle Database, and a sandalone Oracle database on same node, in a two node Microsoft Cluster on Windows/2000 environment ?


Thanks in advance
Prasad Vadlamani
Sr.Oracle DBA
OCP 8i/9i

assuming you mean an Oracle Cluster and not a MS cluster as of course RAC does work on a windooze cluster. But yes, you can mix and match ocfs and ntfs on your SAN if you so desire.

steve

Steve,
Thanks for your reply. Let me clarify my question. Assuming a Oracle Database is running on RAC environemnt on a two node cluster(Windows/Oracle cluster). It is possible to create a non clustered, database on either of these nodes of the same cluster?, sharing SAN.

Thanks

What u are going to achive by keeping the nonclustered databases on individual nodes? u doesn't want to utilise the functionality of cluster?

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Originally posted by pvadlama
Steve,
Thanks for your reply. Let me clarify my question. Assuming a Oracle Database is running on RAC environemnt on a two node cluster(Windows/Oracle cluster). It is possible to create a non clustered, database on either of these nodes of the same cluster?, sharing SAN.

Thanks

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it sure is possible, in fact our config is OCFS w/ RAC for our HR db
and then I have a rman/em instance (no rac) with datafiles on ocfs. Who wants to pay $10,000/processor for your maintenace db if rac is not necessary.

steve

Steve,
Thanks for the information. Appreciate your response.