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  1. 01-21-2002, 12:32 PM #1
    adp1414
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    Hey guys, I need some help getting started.

    I'm planning on setting up Sun Cluster 3.0 on a couple of Blade 100's running Solaris 8. Also, I have some Linux file servers that will provide space through NFS. I've started reading Oracle's docs on Technet, and Sun's docs from their site, but I wanted to see if someone had already gone through this process and set up a howto somewhere.

    Any guidance, links would be greatly appreciated!
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  2. 01-21-2002, 01:33 PM #2
    julian
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    Wish you best of luck :-) Are you doing all that for fun or did your boss asked you to?

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  3. 01-21-2002, 01:55 PM #3
    adp1414
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    I'm doing this to learn. I want to see how much of RAC is marketing BS and how operable/functional it really is. I definitely want to do some basic benchmarking in my puny environment just to get a feel for the increased overhead.

    Are there any links you can provide? Currently I'm going off Sun's bigadmin page and technet/metalink. I'm not too happy with Oracle's docs on OS cluster setup. I've probably not found the right documentation on their site yet...
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  4. 01-21-2002, 04:05 PM #4
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    Where do you work ? Do you have a DBA job ?

    That is almost a dream setup for 'learning' !!
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  5. 01-21-2002, 06:13 PM #5
    adp1414
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    I do work as a dba...but, I'm doing this at home first. A dry-run if you will.

    I own a Blade 100, and have a couple of other friends that have 100's themselves. The Blade is actually a very cheap way to have Solaris 8 at home on a system with a SPARC chip. Not a very fast system, though. Actually, it's dog slow.

    I also have some cheap pc's that are running linux and working well as NFS servers.

    BTW, I'm still in need of good howto's outside of Technet/Metalink...
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  6. 01-22-2002, 02:29 AM #6
    julian
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    Originally posted by adp1414
    I'm doing this to learn. I want to see how much of RAC is marketing BS and how operable/functional it really is
    You can really see how RAC/OPS works only when it is in an enviroment with lots of concurrent users.

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