Re: Veritas and 10gR2

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:15:50 -0800
Message-ID: <1166652949.797724@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

JEDIDIAH wrote:
> On 2006-12-18, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> Dave wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>>    Anyone know when Veritas's clusterware software is going to be
>>> certified with 10gR2?  I believe Vertias says they support that
>>> configuration but Oracle hasn't certified it yet. 
>>>
>>> tnx.
>> I would expect never as it is redundant and the market for it,
>> among those implementing 10g RAC, would be so small as to not
>> make the investment worthwhile.


> 

>      If you are not focused on penny pinching to the exclusion 

> of all else, then a robust and time tested clusterware solution
> is indeed quite valuable. It would be very hand to not need to
> deal with the BS associated with OCFS2 or ASM.
>
> Then again, you don't even believe in robust storage hardware.
>
> You're a posterboy for the sort of mentality that I am talking
> about. It seems more prevalent with the Linux shops that tend to
> think the apparent savings brought by Linux mean that it's open
> season to cut all sorts of corners everywhere. It can be a Postgre
> shop or an Oracle shop but it works out the same.
>
> [deletia]
>
> Scary things they come up with...

Currently building 3 clusters for one of the largest phone companies on the planet ... 64bit Solaris ... EMC ... Fibre ... what I use in the lab does not equate with what I recommend for production.

BTW: Have you ever benchmarked Veritas vs ASM? Have you ever compared the CPU cycles burned? I recommend you do some time. <g>

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Wed Dec 20 2006 - 16:15:50 CST