Re: Oracle RAC Server Conf.

From: LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:41:50 +0100
Message-ID: <6e9345581001240041s7fd950f4wc0e520da12235aae_at_mail.gmail.com>

Only Oracle support and consultants can install, configure, modify an Exadata/DB Machine software platform. So why learn something when you cannot ever touch it...?

Probably that is wgar Mat means

Thanks

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Scott Heisey <oraracdba_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Matt, Just out of curiosity, what makes exadata proprietary? The version
> of Oracle on exdata is not special and neither is linux. You are stuck with
> HP or SUN as the vendor infiniband for the network and there is specific HBA
> that is used.
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> I wouldn’t call exdata any more proprietary than IBM HW. However exadata is
> a HW solution for a particular application like DWH.
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> Scott
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Matthew Zito
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 23, 2010 1:19 PM
> *To:* robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com; verma.labs_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Freelists
> *Subject:* RE: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
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> Personally, I'd say skip the Exadata platform - why lock yourself into a
> proprietary architecture? Buy 100 2 x 4-core processor servers with 48GB of
> RAM each. That should give you a really good sense of whether your
> application will scale in RAC environments. Of course, to make sure I/O
> doesn't become a bottleneck, I'd recommend a 2000-disk EMC VMAX with a mix
> of flash and fibre channel drives. Each one of the servers should have at
> least 4 4-Gb/sec links into the SAN.
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> This is just for the development environment, of course.
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> Or, the OP could just google "oracle rac test environment" and see the
> options presented. For me, the third one is "Build Your Own Oracle RAC
> Cluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI", which definitely won't be as
> fast as our solutions, but is almost certainly cheaper. Or, the sixth
> option down the page is a presention by the always-popular Dan Norris on
> building a RAC environment with VMware.
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> Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Robert Freeman
> Sent: Sat 1/23/2010 11:52 AM
> To: verma.labs_at_gmail.com; Oracle-L Freelists
> Subject: Re: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
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> I'd buy 2 Oracle Exadata 2 servers with about 10tb of storage. You can do
> lots of testing there!!
> OH! You say that does not meet your budgetary requirements? Did you mention
> what your needs or requirements were?
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> RF
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> From: AMIT VERMA <verma.labs_at_gmail.com>
> To: oracle-l <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Sent: Sat, January 23, 2010 7:49:17 AM
> Subject: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
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> hi,
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> i would like to test oracle rac 10g & 11g. please advise me what os, vm &
> hardware should i use..
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> thanks in advance
> amit v
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