What about GPFS

From: B.N.Sarma (bsarma@BASIT.COM)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 15:44:43 EDT


Greetings,

What about GPFS, here is the link:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/software/whitepapers/gpfs_primer.html

Any experiences on this. what do I need to setup this. We have SSA disks and
HAMP/ES.

Regards & Thanks
BN

"B.N.Sarma" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We have IBM RS6000 AIX 4.3.3 and 2 node HACMP/ES cluster running oracle
> 8.1.7 OPS.
>
> I have setup the oracle database on raw devices, every thing is fine. I
> wanted to setup a shared file system for archived redo logs , where
> oracle instance from both the nodes can archive the redo logs to one
> shared file system.
> This (shared FS) facilitates easier backups and recovery in case of
> oracle database (instance) crash.
>
> But we were informed by IBM Tech support that it is not possible to
> setup a shared file system where we can read, write simultaneously from
> both the nodes. Does HANFS need separate license or is it a different
> product.
>
> I was looking at the HACMP documentation, there they talk about HANFS
> again which is limited to 2 nodes, of course it works for us.
> But I want to know the pros and cons of going for such a setup. Oracle
> 817 offers writing a copy of the archived logs to remote servers.
>
> I want to weigh both the features.
>
> I appreciate your suggestions and comments.
>
> Regards & Thanks
> BN



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