RE: "egenera" 10gRAC ? Anyone ?

We've got extensive experience with 10gR2 + egenera. Short story: RAC works equally well with egenera as normal hardware. Long story: since the egenera boxes look just like normal servers, there's no advantage either way. Egenera talks a good game about their software helping with RAC, but I've never seen a customer leverage their provisioning or anything like that to help make RAC easier to deploy (in fact, we've had a number of companies come to us to do RAC provisioning on egenera). I have heard people complain that the egenera interconnect is unstable under very high IO loads, but have not seen it myself. My .02 on the matter: Egenera is very expensive compared with what you can get by assembling your own hardware. The commoditization of high-speed compute connects using InfiniBand means that the last argument for Egenera - that you can dynamically create IO connections with high throughput - has gone away. Just go buy your hardware vendor of choice and get Topspin IB from Cisco with their IO allocation technology.

Matt

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Kevin Closson Sent: Sun 11/5/2006 10:01 PM
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Subject: RE: "egenera" 10gRAC ? Anyone ?    

I'm really looking forward to any feedback on this one

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>>>Has anyone on this list used egenera for 10gRAC ?

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