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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:41 AM
To: Yavor_Ivanov_at_stemo.bg; dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
Cc: Yavor Ivanov; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: RAC in NAS
I am not much of a hardware person..., but I thought NAS was cheaper
than SAN and SAN was better? Has that changed or is that an over
simplified view?
Any bench marks comparing the two?
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Yavor Ivanov" <Yavor_Ivanov_at_stemo.bg>
> They are planning on 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.2).
> In fact, the IBM guys advised them to take SAN for RAC, not
NAS, but the
> custumer insisted on "the latest, the best, the most
expensive, cutting edge
> technology". The same is for the Oracle release - they take EE
and never ask if
> Standard Edition is fine for them.
>
> Regards,
> Yavor
>
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:25:07 +0300, Nuno Souto wrote:
>
> > Yavor Ivanov wrote,on my timestamp of 26/07/2006 10:09 PM:
> >>
> >> I had a call from a custumer, who bought 2 IBM servers with
x64 (4
> Xeon64 CPUs per node)
> > > architectures and NAS, seeking for RAC solution on
Windows.
> ; > > Unfortunately, they did not ask anyone before bying the
hardware and now
> they
> > have this so
> > > expensive hardware which is not supported for RAC on
Windows.
> > > Oracle RAC supports only SAN on Windows. So sad.
> >
> > No, not sad. It's what Oracle supports. At most, it's
terminally stupid for
> > the customer to go out and buy hardware without checking
first. But
> > then again, IBM would never ask them to check firstt,
selling comes before
> > all that?...
> >
> >
> >> So I was wondering, if anyone of you tried running RAC on
Linux with
> NAS?
> > > Is it running, and is it supported? Unfortunltely I could
not find
> > > hard statement is it working solution (and for Windows it
is
> > > written that it does NOT work:
> > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clus
tering /
> > > certify/tech_generic_window.html ).
> >
> > Haven't yet tried RAC on Linux with anything. Having enough
trouble
> > here making vanilla 9ir2 work fine with ASSM and LOBs in
Linux
> > dedicated. Let alone RAC! But that's another story: for
those
> > with access to Metaclick, seek out the list of bug fixes
planned
> > for 9.2.0.8, then read on the ASSM and LOB bug references
there.
> > Yes, Virginia: we've just hit every single one of them!
> > Fun and games...
> >
> > I don't think NAS is supported for RAC on Linux. However,
I'll stand
> > corrected if anyone knows different. As well, it might help
if you give
> > us a hint on which versions of Oracle and Linux the customer
is
> > planning to run? Or is that pre-determined already by
> > "oh-so-knowledgeable" IBM?
> >
>
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