Oracle Grid/RAC?

The CIO at the company I work is all excited about the
redundancy,
high-availability, and economics of running Oracle RAC on
inexpensive
Linux nodes (Instead of monolithic Oracle on our expensive
IBM pSeries
and AIX beef)  Oracle has their own "Enterprise"
distro (or they condone
RHEL or SLES).  All of those distros make me want to run
away and
hide 

Before you go into telling me about having a neck to
strangle when
things go wrong, I understand that.  I understand that
Gentoo isn't an
accountable "Enterprise" Linux.  But I can fix
library problems with
Gentoo.  I can also optimize things with Gentoo.  I'm sure I
don't have
to preach about Gentoo's virtues here.  Suffice it to say, I
would very
much rather use gentoo than those evil RPM-based distros.

Is anyone here running Oracle Grid/RAC on Gentoo?  I haven't
been able
to find anything on the web about it.  I've only found the
"HOWTO
Install Oracle 10g", sans RAC.  Are several hoops to
jump through?  Has
anyone has written ebuilds for the supporting cluster
management tools
that Oracle Enterprise Linux has?  Are there any resources
on the web
that you know about for Gentoo and RAC?


Thanks.


../troy

Hi,
I don't have a Oracle RAC on a Gentoo (I have it on a 3 node
cluster
using RHEL4 instead) It's installation I'm almost sure will
be quite
straightforward, but it will warn you about networking and
other
issues because it would not find it's configuration files

If you find any problem that you can't solve you can always
install
app-arch/rpm or use app-arch/rpm2targz ;)

If you decide to install it, I would like to hear from you
how do you
manage to do it and if you had any problem!

best regards,
Jordi

On 9/19/07, Troy Bowman <troydublan.net> wrote:
>
> The CIO at the company I work is all excited about the
redundancy,
> high-availability, and economics of running Oracle RAC
on inexpensive
> Linux nodes (Instead of monolithic Oracle on our
expensive IBM pSeries
> and AIX beef)  Oracle has their own
"Enterprise" distro (or they condone
> RHEL or SLES).  All of those distros make me want to
run away and
> hide 
>
> Before you go into telling me about having a neck to
strangle when
> things go wrong, I understand that.  I understand that
Gentoo isn't an
> accountable "Enterprise" Linux.  But I can
fix library problems with
> Gentoo.  I can also optimize things with Gentoo.  I'm
sure I don't have
> to preach about Gentoo's virtues here.  Suffice it to
say, I would very
> much rather use gentoo than those evil RPM-based
distros.
>
> Is anyone here running Oracle Grid/RAC on Gentoo?  I
haven't been able
> to find anything on the web about it.  I've only found
the "HOWTO
> Install Oracle 10g", sans RAC.  Are several hoops
to jump through?  Has
> anyone has written ebuilds for the supporting cluster
management tools
> that Oracle Enterprise Linux has?  Are there any
resources on the web
> that you know about for Gentoo and RAC?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ../troy
>
>


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