Re: RAC

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:22:05 +0200
Message-ID: <f2u5mt$f2o$1@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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DA Morgan wrote:
> newbie wrote:

>> On May 21, 11:18 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>> newbie wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys
>>>> I was trying to study Oracle RAC
>>>> To have a test system I was proposing the following
>>>> a) Convert a Desktop 4GB RAM , 160 GB HDD to SUSE Linux and try to
>>>> install RAC on this.
>>>> Is this possible ??
>>>> Objective is only for study purposes
>>>> Please comment
>>> Truly no. You can fake it with VMWare, and similar kludges, but you will
>>> not have RAC. How, for example, can you test breaking the cache fusion
>>> memory interconnect?
>>> -- 
>>> Daniel A. Morgan
>>> University of Washington
>>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
>>> (replace x with u to respond)
>>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>>> - Show quoted text -
>>
>> what route do u recommend ??
>> please recommend o/s and hardware and oracle version etc etc

>
> My recommendation is to hit eBay and pick up a used NetApp, F810
> or later. They are generally available for not much more than a good
> PC. Then you can have RAW, ASM, CFS, whatever you want and it is all
> the real deal.
>
> Yes it will cost more than VMWare. But it will be the real thing. Just
> be sure to get one with GigE NIC cards.
For study purposes, the "real thing" may well be over the top.

Heard iSCSI can do the same, and you can do that with several Linux based NAS/SAN software - still trying to figure out the details, so can't be specific on that, but it is worth looking into

• -- Regards, Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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