Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

NetApp is NFS; so are all current NAS products...

The phrases "NetApp" and "cheap" are *always* used together -- it is their most compelling feature. CFOs love NetApps. For database usage however, they are best used in non-demanding situations (i.e. low I/O volumes). The phrase "filer" is very apt -- their very best application is simple file-serving; Windows network drive or UNIX file-system. But not underneath any I/O-intensive application such as a busy database-based application. Any I/O subsystem (such as NAS) that relies on a cache for performance is simply pure trouble for busy databases -- DEC knew it in the 80s and EMC discovered it in the 90s. Now NetApp knows in the 00s (does that rhyme?)...

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:34 AM

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:19:21PM -0800, Tim Gorman wrote:
> > A couple of anecdotes to consider:
> > a.. Some folks from the "Oak Table" forum (www.oaktable.net) recently
(last July) constructed a 10-node cluster of Linux laptops right on the conference floor at Oracle Open World in Copenhagen, Denmark. Information is available at
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-20212349-0.html? tag=ats. So it can definitely be done on the cheap!
>
>
> hmm...first time I've ever seen NetApp and cheap used together. What is
> the real poor man's shared disk architecture? NFS?
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