It is recommended to use two Gigabit Switches for RAC Node
Interconnect communication to provide Redundancy and performance. Is there
any setup required on beside configuring two interface like eth1 and eth2
and then specifying them in RAC cluster installation PRIVATE Interconnect
screen.
I am just trying to understand that how the failover or redundancy is
achieved if I unplug one of the Cable on one Node. Is it been configured
by RAC clusterware or I had to tell something to sysadmin.
Also how performance is achieved in using two Switches.
I am currently having 10g RAC on sun SOlaris 10 with one Gigabit
Switch for QA environment and planning for Production hardware
requirements.
Also If I use Oracle 10g ASM for Storage and RAW device for OCR and
Voting Disk. I am using EMC with Two SAN switches and so 2HBA on
each Node. Anybody has any doc for Multipathing with EMC. My concern is
that both nodes see the RAW Device LUN as well as ASM luns as same and two
HBA should provide the high availability when I will remove one of the
HBA
Thanks
Sanjay