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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sgmgr
sgmgr(1M)sgmgr(1M)NAME
sgmgr - Serviceguard Manager
SYNOPSIS
filename ] | COMserver username password cluster_name ...]] COMserver2
Remarks
Serviceguard Manager is the graphical user interface for Serviceguard or Serviceguard Extension for RAC software, Version A.11.12 or later,
Serviceguard products are not included in the standard HP-UX operating system.
DESCRIPTION
The command starts Serviceguard Manager, the graphical user interface for Serviceguard clusters. Serviceguard Manager can be installed on
HP-UX, Linux, or Windows. Serviceguard Manager can be used to view saved data files of a single cluster, or to see running clusters. To
see the "live" cluster map, Serviceguard Manager connects to a Serviceguard node on the same subnet as those clusters, specifically to a
part of Serviceguard called the Cluster Object Manager (COM).
Options
supports the options listed below. No options are required. If any option is not specified, the user will be prompted to supply it after
the interface opens.
Open a previously saved or example object data file. The file will have the .sgm extension. It can display only one cluster. This
option cannot be used with any other options.
Specify the Serviceguard node that will be the server. This node's COM will query cluster objects running on its subnets, and will
report their status and configuration. Servers with Serviceguard Version A.11.12 or later can monitor clusters. Servers with Ser-
viceguard Version A.11.14 or later can also perform administrative actions. Servers with Version A.11.16 or later can also configure
clusters. To specify multiple sessions, repeat the -s option.
The user login name for the COMserver node. Valid only if COMserver is specified.
The user password on the COMserver node. Valid only if username is specified.
In creating the map, the COMserver will include the cluster where it is a member.
In creating the map, the COMserver will report information
about the specified cluster_name(s). Specify clusters with the following cluster software installed: MC/Serviceguard
Version A.10.10 or later, MC/LockManager Version A.11.02 or later, Serviceguard OPS or Extension for RAC Version
A.11.08 or later, and all versions of MetroClusters and ContinentalClusters.
To see several clusters, repeat the -c option.
If you specify this unused nodes option all COMservers will report information about nodes that have Serviceguard installed, but are
not currently configured in any cluster.
To connect to another COMserver for another session, repeat the -s options.
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
See documents at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha including:
Managing Serviceguard.
Configuring OPS Clusters with Serviceguard OPS Edition.
Using Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Cluster (RAC).
Series 700 or 800 Works with Optional Serviceguard or Serviceguard Extension for RAC Software sgmgr(1M)
06-17-2008
, sure you can!