From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Don Koch Subject: Re: Oracle RAC in libvirt+KVM environment Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:04:08 -0400 Message-ID: <5203A558.5000301@terremark.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: libvirt-users , kvm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Timon Wang Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: libvirt-users-bounces-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: libvirt-users-bounces-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 08/08/2013 03:54 AM, Timon Wang wrote: > Anybody have idea on it? > > I tried to set the disk as raw format, and retried the setup process, > but still can't get through. Caveat: I know nothing in particular about Oracle RAC, but... Assuming that RAC uses something like SCSI reservations in order to share the disk, I would guess it doesn't like the disk being on the IDE bus. > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Timon Wang wrote: >> We wan't to setup two Oracle instance and make RAC work on them. >> Both VM are setup based on libvirt + KVM, we use a lvm lun which >> formated in qcow2 format and set the shareable properties in the disk >> driver like this: >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> But when we use it as shared data disk like we use iscsi/FC disk for >> shared data disk, the disk can't be recognized as a share disk, and >> RAC can't be setup in the environment. >> >> Any body can give me some guild on this? >> >> I am wondering shareable in the libvirt config really makes the disk shareable? >> >> How can I setup the RAC environment in this situable? >> >> I found that vmware and vbox can do this according to a blog post, I >> am wondering if kvm has this ability to make a disk really shareable. >> >> -- >> Focus on: Server Vitualization, Network security,Scanner,NodeJS,JAVA,WWW >> Blog: http://www.nohouse.net > > >