A couple years ago, we moved to Oracle RAC on Linux using ocfs that is SAN attached to an EMC CLARiiON. At the time, there was a reason that we did NOT use EMC's Powerpath (I just can't recall what that reason was). What I'd like to know is if there are any issues with introducing Powerpath now. * RHEL 2.1 AS * 2.4.9-e.38enterprise * ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.13-1 * EMC CLARiiON CX600 Thx! ---- Kim Kendall Sr Unix Administrator Inter-Tel, Inc. http://www.inter-tel.com/ Tempe, Arizona 480-449-8900 x18078 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Kim Kendall.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 381 bytes Desc: Kim Kendall.vcf Url : http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/attachments/20050804/01c47bd9/KimKendall.vcf
> * RHEL 2.1 AS > * 2.4.9-e.38enterprisethat's a bit old - there are lots of things fixed for running oracle stuff in later versions. e.57+ i think was far more interesting> * ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.13-1you'd want .14> * EMC CLARiiON CX600latest versions of pp are not bad.
We will certainly bump the kernel and ocfs version when the opportunity presents itself. (Hard to do when the systems are in production) Are you usinf PP 3 or PP 4? I saw in a PP doc (PP 3.0) that a kernel rebuild is necessary. ---- Kim Kendall Sr Unix Administrator Inter-Tel, Inc. http://www.inter-tel.com/ Tempe, Arizona 480-449-8900 x18078 -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Holzrichter [mailto:bruce.holzrichter@monster.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:56 AM To: Kendall, Kim Cc: ocfs-users@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [Ocfs-users] Ocfs and EMC Powerpath We are using Powerpath with CX300's and Emulex HBA's, also with OCFS on Red Hat 2.1 AS. Kernel upgrades are the biggest issue that we have, as some of the drivers are dependent on modules built for specific kernels, and if your not careful you can have boot issues with them. I would suggest at least kernel e59 and OCFS v1.0.14. Powerpath may only be supported to v3.7 on that 2.1 platfrom, but I would doublecheck that with EMC support matrix. We had issues with iostat statistics as well, but they seem to be better with the latest systat packages, so make sure you update that as well. Other than that, they seem to work fine. Hope that helps. Bruce Holzrichter On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:12 -0700, Kendall, Kim wrote:> A couple years ago, we moved to Oracle RAC on Linux using ocfs that is> SAN attached to an EMC CLARiiON. At the time, there was a reason that > we did NOT use EMC's Powerpath (I just can't recall what that reason > was). > > What I'd like to know is if there are any issues with introducing > Powerpath now. > > * RHEL 2.1 AS > * 2.4.9-e.38enterprise > * ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.13-1 > * EMC CLARiiON CX600 > > Thx! > ---- > Kim Kendall Sr Unix Administrator > Inter-Tel, Inc. http://www.inter-tel.com/ > Tempe, Arizona 480-449-8900 x18078 > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs-users mailing list > Ocfs-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs-users-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Kim Kendall.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 381 bytes Desc: Kim Kendall.vcf Url : http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs-users/attachments/20050804/239f6d6e/KimKendall.vcf
We are using Powerpath with CX300's and Emulex HBA's, also with OCFS on Red Hat 2.1 AS. Kernel upgrades are the biggest issue that we have, as some of the drivers are dependent on modules built for specific kernels, and if your not careful you can have boot issues with them. I would suggest at least kernel e59 and OCFS v1.0.14. Powerpath may only be supported to v3.7 on that 2.1 platfrom, but I would doublecheck that with EMC support matrix. We had issues with iostat statistics as well, but they seem to be better with the latest systat packages, so make sure you update that as well. Other than that, they seem to work fine. Hope that helps. Bruce Holzrichter On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:12 -0700, Kendall, Kim wrote:> A couple years ago, we moved to Oracle RAC on Linux using ocfs that is > SAN attached to an EMC CLARiiON. At the time, there was a reason that we > did NOT use EMC's Powerpath (I just can't recall what that reason was). > > What I'd like to know is if there are any issues with introducing > Powerpath now. > > * RHEL 2.1 AS > * 2.4.9-e.38enterprise > * ocfs-2.4.9-e-enterprise-1.0.13-1 > * EMC CLARiiON CX600 > > Thx! > ---- > Kim Kendall Sr Unix Administrator > Inter-Tel, Inc. http://www.inter-tel.com/ > Tempe, Arizona 480-449-8900 x18078 > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs-users mailing list > Ocfs-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs-users