Does Oracle Support RAC with Solaris 10 Containers (aka Zones)?
No. RAC is currently not supported with Solaris 10 Local Containers. You can use a Global container but remember 1 global container per system or per domain. So, in case your hardware is capable of being split up in domains, you may have more than 1 global container on the whole system (hardware), that is per domain.In local containers, you cannot manipulate hardware in any way, shape or form. You can’t plumb and unplumb network interfaces …. nothing … even as the local container root user. You can only do this in the global container. We rely on the uadmin command to quickly bring down a node if an urgent condition is detected. As I recall, you can’t do this from the local container either. CRS has to maintain the ability to manipulate hardware and this just is not going to happen in a local container.The answer is the same if you are using Vendor Clusterware such as Veritas SF RAC or Sun Cluster.
