Ocfs2 users - Feb 2008 - mixed environment / why is setting up an oracle cluster on windows so hard?

hello everybody

I successfully installed a *very* small two node cluster with a shared 
volume on linux (both debian, one x86, one ARM [laugh not: NSLU2 :)]).

before that, I tried to install the "clusterware" package on my
windows
xp box and it constantly complained about the three different ip 
addresses it wanted to see, then I got so frustrated with numerous 
manual hosts-file changes, loopback adapter installations, and finally 
the installer not letting me do interface orderings myself (my
"private"
adapter became always the main node name etc.) that I eventually just 
quit trying.

why is installation on linux so easy and almost works out of the box, 
while setting up the same thing on windows is massive PITA?

and, if I eventually would manage to install clusterware on windows - 
would it play nicely with the linux boxes in a "mixed" cluster?

btw, I glanced through the archives of the last months (since there 
seems to be no searchable archive), but did not find any posts about 
this rather open question.

thanks & regards
nicola

Nicola,

I think the key is to get a hold of a good install guide. At times the 
general Oracle install guides cover many options and so for an initial RAC 
install it might be hard/confusing.  Try this guide for 10g, hosted on 
this website:

http://www.microsoft-oracle.com/oracledb/Pages/Whitepapers.aspx

Direct link to PDF is:

http://www.jobcestbon.com/oracle/RacOnWindows.pdf

Not sure if you are a Windows or Linux user or both.. but I've met a few 
Windows users that found the Linux world confusing and vice versa..  In 
any event, hope this guide will get your install going, and if you have 
any Oracle RAC Windows install issues you might try the OTN RAC forum at:

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=140

This ocfs2-users mailing list is for the open source Linux implementation 
of OCFS2..

Good luck,

Saar.

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Nicola Fankhauser wrote:
> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:35:48 +0100
> From: Nicola Fankhauser <nicola.fankhauser@variant.ch>
> To: ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com
> Subject: [Ocfs2-users] mixed environment / why is setting up an oracle
cluster
>      on windows so hard?
> 
> hello everybody
>
> I successfully installed a *very* small two node cluster with a shared
volume
> on linux (both debian, one x86, one ARM [laugh not: NSLU2 :)]).
>
> before that, I tried to install the "clusterware" package on my
windows xp
> box and it constantly complained about the three different ip addresses it 
> wanted to see, then I got so frustrated with numerous manual hosts-file 
> changes, loopback adapter installations, and finally the installer not 
> letting me do interface orderings myself (my "private" adapter
became always
> the main node name etc.) that I eventually just quit trying.
>
> why is installation on linux so easy and almost works out of the box, while
> setting up the same thing on windows is massive PITA?
>
> and, if I eventually would manage to install clusterware on windows - would
> it play nicely with the linux boxes in a "mixed" cluster?
>
> btw, I glanced through the archives of the last months (since there seems
to
> be no searchable archive), but did not find any posts about this rather
open
> question.
>
> thanks & regards
> nicola
>
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