Many thanks to all who responded:
Hannes Visagie <visagi_h_at_mtn.co.ug>
"Chewy" <chewy_at_iowatch.com>
"Dolder, Matthias" <Matthias.Dolder_at_compaq.com>
Paul <madeline_at_postal.lightbridge.com>
Vipin Gokhale <Vipin.Gokhale_at_oracle.com>
The general consensus is:
Oracle 8.1.6 is OK on 5.1:
- Run OPS with raw volumes/devices
- Some stability issues
- OFIN 11i is certified
Oracle 8.1.7 is OK on 5.1:
- Run OPS on AdvFS (makes use of DIRECT_IO flag in AdvFS V4)
- Much more stable than 8.1.6
- OFIN 11i - not sure; Matthias says that it is been used in Switzerland
quite successfully, however in Australia, we are being told that our
particular release of OFIN 11i (we have to have specific patches for
our app) is not certified on 8.1.7 - so we're going to have to stick
with 8.1.6 for the time being.
- I'll chase this up and post an updated summary when I have more info.
Now, Paul mentioned something which we think is where we had problems:
>We've done it here. We ran into three major problems:
> 1) we had the wrong install cdrom for oracle. - we were using the
>oracle 8.1.6 for 5.0.
We actually think we have an installer for V4.0x; in that all the doco that
came with our CD kit comes with V4.0x information and kernel parameters! (it
listed some parameters that don't exist in V5.x).
We chased it up with Oracle here in Australia, who didn't seem to really
understand OPS or V5.X Tru64 UNIX .. however we are hopeful of securing the
kit from the US ..
That's it for now - as I get more information and progress further, I'll post
more information in an updated summary.
Thanks again to all ..
gunther
--
My original post follows:
>Hi,
>
>I was wondering if there is anyone who has successfully installed
>OPS 8.1.6 (8i) + OFIN 11i on TruCluster 5.1.
>
>I've had zero problems with TruCluster it was running quite quickly,
>however, we just can't get the Oracle installer to complete successfully;
>it always seems to fail.
>
>If anyone has successfully done this, I'd love to bounce some questions
>off you.
>
>thanks in advance,
>gunther
Received on Thu Dec 21 2000 - 10:40:52 NZDT