Re: Multiple machines and one RAID

From: Bob Fazio <bob_fazio_at_hotmail.com.no.spam>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 05:22:51 GMT
Message-ID: <LekE3.779$GZ2.17185@news.rdc1.pa.home.com>

Are you considering using the 4 Sparc's in a single cluster with OPS?

If so, I would say yes, but I don't know that the price would be any less.

<david-deja_at_cheetahmail.com> wrote in message news:7rlqsj$nhd$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi-
>
> I am looking for the best configuration and it occurred to me that
> having several small and cheap machines sharing one big RAID would be
> ideal: scalable, performant, reliable, available.
>
> But how does it work? How dou you set up the machines? How does Oracle
> know what to run where? How many machines can you run in parallel?
> What about the SGA? Etc...
>
> I wanted to buy a Sun Enterprise 450 with a dozen disks but now I am
> thinking about 4 Sun Ultra machines and a Sun storage array.
>
> Any advice/pointer/comment will be sincerly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David.
>
>
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Received on Fri Sep 17 1999 - 00:22:51 CDT