[Linux-cluster] Oracle failover cluster, whole /u01 on shared storage?

[Cristian Mammoli]

On 25/03/2013 22:33, Cristian Mammoli wrote:
> I'm not talking about rac and/or gfs, just a plain old active/passive
> cluster. What's the right way to implement it?
> As far as I understand the easiest way is to put the whole $ORACLE_HOME
> on shared storage (SAN) and mount it on the active node.
> But in this way I loose the chance to do "rolling updates":
> Update Oracle software on node2, migrate instance to node2, update
> software on node1 ecc
>
> If install Oracle software on each node and put database files on shared
> storage (eg. /u02) there are some files which reside inside $ORACLE_HOME
> anyway (spfile, listener, audit trail ecc). How do I keep them in sync?
> Symlinks?
>
> Thanks

anyone? :(

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