Persistent raw devices for Oracle RAC with iSCSI
Using udev to set persistent raw devices for iscsi in Oracle RAC
Oracle RAC with EMC iSCSI Storage Panics
I have had a system panicking when running the mentioned below configuration: RedHat RHEL 4 Update 6 (4.6) 64bit (x86_64) Dell PowerEdge servers Oracle RAC 11g with Clusterware 11g EMC iSCSI storage EMC PowerPate Vote and Registry LUNs are accessible as raw devices Data files are accessible through ASM with libASM During reboots or shutdowns,…
Bonding in RedHat RHEL4
This is a rather common knowledge now that on RHEL4 you need to state inside /etc/modprobe.conf the following line, when you want more than one bonding interfaces: options bonding max_bonds=2 Then you attempt to use a trick to address different bonding devices with their name (aka, bond0 and bond1, and maybe bond2, etc), using an…
Vlan Tagging with bonding network interface on RHEL4
This is not a simple task, as there are few things which should actually happen for it to work. First – the switch port should support vlan tagging (of course, right?) I have used vlan2 for “external” network, and vlan3 for “internal” network. My configuration looks like this: ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes ISALIAS=no…
RHEL4 tends to change network interfaces names
RHEL4 tends to change the names of network cards when there are more than one. If you had a NIC called eth0 during install time, it doesn’t mean that it will maintain that name after the first reboot. It could switch names with its friend, and be called now eth1, while the previous eth1 name…
Installing RHEL4 on HP DL140 G3 with the embedded RAID enabled
While DL140 G3 is quite a new piece of hardware, RHEL4, even with the later updates, is rather old. When you decide to install RHEL4 on a DL140 G3 server, my first recommendation is this: if you decide to use the embedded SATA-II RAID controller – don’t. This is a driver-based RAID, much like the…