Re: Horizontally scaling a database

Dennis,

I am mainly looking at commodity hardware. We are looking to store massive data with low cost and willing to trade off performance for cost. SAN has a high upfront cost. Also when storage reaches rack's max capacity replacing the rack gets even more expensive.

We are initially looking to start with a modest size and add as we grow.

Thanks

Sandeep

On 3/15/07, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Sandeep,
>
> For this scale of system, I think you are looking at something like a SAN on
> the storage side. To the server a SAN looks like a single file system. The
> first generation of SANs were proprietary, but I understand the industry is
> working on common standards. And a SAN nicely works with RAC.
>
> Dennis Williams

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