Oracle Tips by Burleson

Oracle10g Grid Computing with RAC
Chapter 6 - Install, Configure and Database Creation

For Linux

Figure 6.1 Supported Linux Platform

Windows

In case of Windows based RAC database systems, both the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 are supported. Windows 2003 refers to enterprise, data center and standard edition. Windows 2000 refers to Advanced Server and Datacenter Edition. Clusterware is supplied by Oracle.

Figure 6.2 Supported Windows Platform

On UNIX

Oracle 10g RAC is available for all the widely used Unix Flavors as shown the Fig. 6.3. Variety of Clusterware is supported for building RAC Clusters. In addition to Oracle provided CRS, vendor provided Clusterware can be used.

 In the case of Solaris platform, RAC database system can be built with one of these clusterware: Sun Cluster software, Fujitsu-Siemens Prime Cluster software, Veritas DB Edition/Advance Cluster (DBE/AC) and Oracle provided clusterware.

Figure 6.3 Supported UNIX Platform and the cluster software modules