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Tuning the Cluster Interconnect

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In the previous chapter, we discussed that RAC was a configuration of multiple instances clustered together to provide a scalable, high availability environment for information exchange. These servers communicate with each other using a private network called the cluster interconnect.

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    HP OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual, June 2002. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731final/5841/5841pro.html .

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    Tierney, Brian L., Jason R. Lee, Dan Gunter, and Martin Stoufer. “Improving Distributed Application Performance Using TCP Instrumentation,” May 2003. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—Tom Dunigan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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    The Ethernet packet consists of a 1,500-byte payload + 14 bytes for header + VLAN tag 4 bytes + CRC 4 bytes.

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    Metalink Note # 1210883.1, 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure Redundant Interconnect, and ora.cluster_interconnect.haip.

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    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3330 .

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    Underscore parameters should be modified only with consent from Oracle support.

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    Underscore parameters should be modified only with consent from Oracle Support.

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    This is generated using $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/awrgrpt.sql.

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Vallath, M. (2014). Tuning the Cluster Interconnect. In: Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6710-2_14

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