Re: RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-16 Thread Scott
Cyral, The frame is nothing more than the component that holds the equipment. Oracle can support upto 256 instances in a RS6000/SP environment. I have setup 16 instances on 16 nodes in SP environment and have seen upto 100 instances on 100 nodes. This is the long answer to you question which is

Re: RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-15 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi I am sorry if someone has replied this But can someone PLEASE tell me if IBM supports OPS across their SP frames. or only support OPS WITHIN SINGLE SP frame? Thanks -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cyril Thankappan INET: [EMAIL

Re: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Actually, failover (TAF - for connection, session, and select) works fine without MTS. I've built six 8i OPS systems in the last year or so using TAF without MTS. (None had direct Java clients though.) MTS is not required for the older multiple

Re: RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread Cyril Thankappan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi SOrry about this.. But I have actually seen the Net8 (shipped with Oracle 8.1.7 client CD) using Oracle 8.1.6 Enterprise Edition Database Server, where the failover works WITHOUT mts. However, Gopal, can you please clarify whether

Re: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread Stefan Jahnke
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, on AIX platforms, Oracle actually uses it's post wait driver architecture. It's a substitute for the operating system's semaphores. The background is that due to an exhaustive overhead dealing with OS semaphores (context switch), Oracle

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread John Kanagaraj
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Gopal et al, One of the main differences between Oracle on HP-UX/Solaris/Sequent and Oracle on IBM is their use of the Post-wait driver which uses a 'test-and-set' lightweight mechanisn instead of semaphores. The other difference (in this OS

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-13 Thread Gogala, Mladen
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Don, failover, dispatcher cross registration and server load balancing require MTS. Second, I'm not on AIX, that is why I was guessing about semaphores. Here are my versions: SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Thu Sep 13 15:36:53 2001

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-13 Thread Gogala, Mladen
locks. You will have to read the manuals to understand this one. -Original Message- From: Pablo ksksksk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent Hi Mladen Thanks

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, You are right. IBM uses a light weight process (post wait driver??) instead of typical System V semaphores. It is dynamically allocated and you don't need to explicitly set them in sys config files (Right John??) Best Regards, K

OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-12 Thread Pablo ksksksk
Hi it's the first time I'm going to install an OPS (Oracle 8.1.6 and AIX 4.3). What things should I take care of? (patches, some tips, etc) Where can I find some documentation (besides Oracle Concept Manual), can someone point me good docs? TIA

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-12 Thread Gogala, Mladen
, September 12, 2001 6:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OPS instalation - pretty urgent Hi it's the first time I'm going to install an OPS (Oracle 8.1.6 and AIX 4.3). What things should I take care of? (patches, some tips, etc) Where can I find some

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-12 Thread Pablo ksksksk
Sorry I forgot to ask this one too: In the manual says that one OPS advantage is High Avaiability, now, in a client-server application,if node1 goes down, how do clients that ussually connect to node1 access the DB now? How do they know that node1 is down and that now they have to connect

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-12 Thread Pablo ksksksk
Hi Mladen Thanks for the answer. I'm already doing some reading... I'd like to ask you some questions about your answer Here I go. Please be nice if I'm wrong 1)Log threads have to be private to each instance, right? there's no Public thread I think. 2)Is it usual to use PUBLIC rollback

Re: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-12 Thread Don Granaman
. Remember the following phone number: (800) 223-1711. Take vacation when you're done. -Original Message- From: Pablo ksksksk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OPS instalation - pretty urgent Hi it's