Re: RAC in NAS

Excellent advice.

You know, when I think back on the 5 or 10 biggest infrastructure "errors" I have seen in recent years,
they all seem to have this in common: The "technical architect" obtained most (or all) of his/her advice
and information from hardware sales reps (and usually from only one vendor). The only exceptions I can
think of are the cases where the "technical architect" actually *was* the hardware sales rep...

Of course, when doing my own homework, I *do* look pretty closely at vendor-supplied information.
I usually skip the brochures, though, and go straight to the spec sheets and (when available) reference
manuals. When I feel like having fun, I do this *before* the sales rep is invited to visit... ;-)

Often, you won't learn a lot about what a product *can* do this way, but you may learn a lot about
what it *can't* do. And when a vendor says their own product cannot do "xxxx", that information
is *usually* reliable. (Altough I have been stung that way at least once by Oracle "documentation bugs".)

On 7/27/06, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:
>
> >>> This discussion went far from my first question. NAS is
> >>>NOT supported ion Windows, for sure. Now I know thant it IS
> >>>supported on Linux, but "check with storage vendor". This
>
> don't check with the storage vendor, that is how this guy got
> piked by IBM in the first place. Go to the OSCP page.
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/oscp.html
>
>
> [...]
>
>

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