Assuming that Oracle and OS's licenses are not a problem for you , sure you can!
Once you've chosen a supported OS (eg. RHEL4) you can follow Oracle documentation for deploying your RAC environment. If you want to play, you can also use an OS that is not supported, although you may encounter problems for example during linking of Oracle binaries (you may fall into big headaches!).
My personal installation runs very well on my laptop:
Code:
2.6.24-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Tue May 13 18:38:54 CEST 2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
However it's not a RAC. I've never installed a RAC on OSs different than RHEL and Solaris.
Given your system, I would recommend installing x86_64 version for both OS and RDBMS, only don't try 32 bit Oracle on a 64 bit OS.
The only option you have for shared storage is using ASM or OCFS (very buggy). Since it's a test system, you may also try with a shared mount via NFS, but if I remember correctly it's not supported (don't know if it works the same!).
Oh, you also need two physical NICs on both servers for public addresses and private interconnect. These are required for proper installation of clusterware software.
One last word: maybe it is better to try such a complex environment on virtual machines rather than on a real hardware! For testing purposes you may be able to startup two VMs with 512MB of RAM each and be able to install correctly a Linux system and a small Oracle instance.
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cm - cluster monitor for high availability clusters
Remarks
Cluster operations require the installation of the optional Serviceguard or Serviceguard Extension for RAC software, which is not included
in the standard HP-UX operating system.
DESCRIPTION
Serviceguard and Serviceguard Extension for RAC are high availability products which provide an environment such that after a failure of a
node, services (applications) can be up and running again on another node within a very short amount of time. In addition, Serviceguard
Extension for RAC is the enabling software for the Real Application Clusters (RAC). Working with the basic Serviceguard product, Service-
guard Extension for Faster Failover allows configuration of clusters for optimized failover.
Commands
The following set of commands is used to configure a high availability cluster:
cmquerycl(1M)cmmakepkg(1M)cmcheckconf(1M)cmapplyconf(1M)
The following commands are used to run or halt a cluster:
cmruncl(1M)cmhaltcl(1M)cmrunnode(1M)cmhaltnode(1M)cmviewcl(1M)
Once a cluster is formed, the following commands are provided for manual operation on high availability packages:
cmrunpkg(1M)cmhaltpkg(1M)cmmodpkg(1M)
The following commands are used within a package control script to control the services and networks configured for a package:
cmrunserv(1M)cmhaltserv(1M)cmmodnet(1M)
A command is provided to aid in migrating from a SwitchOver/UX configuration to a Serviceguard cluster:
cmmigrate(1M)
This command is not applicable with Serviceguard Extension for RAC.
SEE ALSO
Managing Serviceguard.
Configuring RAC Clusters with Serviceguard Extension for RAC.
Requires Optional Serviceguard Software cm(5)
06-17-2008
, sure you can!