Using the Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard Option With Sun Cluster 3.1 (Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for Oracle Parallel Server/Real Application Clusters Guide)

Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for Oracle Parallel Server/Real Application Clusters Guide

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Using the Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard Option With Sun Cluster 3.1

For information about the installation, administration, and operation of the Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard option, see the Oracle documentation. If you plan to use this product option with Sun Cluster 3.1, note the points in the subsections that follow before you install Sun Cluster 3.1.

Hostname Restrictions

If you use the Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard option with Sun Cluster 3.1, the following restrictions apply to hostnames that you use in your cluster:

Hostnames cannot contain special characters.
You cannot change the hostnames after you install Sun Cluster 3.1.

For more information about these restrictions and any other requirements, see the Oracle documentation.

Sun Cluster Command Usage Restrictions

If you use the Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard option with Sun Cluster 3.1, do not use Sun Cluster commands to perform the following operations:

Manipulating the state of resources that Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard installs. Using Sun Cluster commands for this purpose might cause failures.
Querying the state of the resources that Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard installs. This state might not reflect the actual state. To check the state of the Oracle Parallel Fail Safe/Real Application Clusters Guard, use the commands that Oracle supplies.