Comments on: Those Oracle Installs Just Keep Getting More and More Difficult http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/those-oracle-installs-just-keep-getting-more-and-more-difficult/ Oracle-related Platform, Storage and Clustering Topics (with the occasional rant) Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:35:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Log Buffer #83: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/those-oracle-installs-just-keep-getting-more-and-more-difficult/#comment-32351 Log Buffer #83: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:44:23 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/those-oracle-installs-just-keep-getting-more-and-more-difficult/#comment-32351 [...] Egan’s and Mogens Norgaard’s latest video of an unconventional Oracle install exposing the great ease with which this can be done, even with a SAN and backups set-up. I think this demands a screen [...] [...] Egan’s and Mogens Norgaard’s latest video of an unconventional Oracle install exposing the great ease with which this can be done, even with a SAN and backups set-up. I think this demands a screen [...]

]]> By: Mogens Nørgaard http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/those-oracle-installs-just-keep-getting-more-and-more-difficult/#comment-32340 Mogens Nørgaard Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:37:43 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/those-oracle-installs-just-keep-getting-more-and-more-difficult/#comment-32340 Well, it's a four-node cluster with an HP SAN underneath (we call it the OakRAC) that Morten is using. The day before we had the video rolling and left Morten to himself in the room. Due to some RAC stuff (or whatever) he couldn't get the cluster to do what he asked it to do. So he got hold of the key by the window in the room, put it on top of the OakRAC, turned it, used his mouth to put it into the lock, turned the key, opened the door to the boot botton, and then realised: He couldn't reach the boot button with his nose. So, resolutely, he used his tongue for those four, long seconds that it takes to say 'reboot' to the system. After a while he had to give up and came out of the room to tell us. The next morning we were ready and the install went just fine, as you can see in the video. The cut where he uses his tongue to boot the OakRAC will be publised one of these days. Mogens Well, it’s a four-node cluster with an HP SAN underneath (we call it the OakRAC) that Morten is using.

The day before we had the video rolling and left Morten to himself in the room. Due to some RAC stuff (or whatever) he couldn’t get the cluster to do what he asked it to do.

So he got hold of the key by the window in the room, put it on top of the OakRAC, turned it, used his mouth to put it into the lock, turned the key, opened the door to the boot botton, and then realised:

He couldn’t reach the boot button with his nose.

So, resolutely, he used his tongue for those four, long seconds that it takes to say ‘reboot’ to the system.

After a while he had to give up and came out of the room to tell us.

The next morning we were ready and the install went just fine, as you can see in the video.

The cut where he uses his tongue to boot the OakRAC will be publised one of these days.

Mogens

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