Re: RAC in NAS

Excellent advice.

You know, when I think back on the 5 or 10 biggest infrastructure "errors" I
have seen in recent years,
they all seem to have this in common:  The "technical architect" obtained
most (or all) of his/her advice
and information from hardware sales reps (and usually from only one
vendor).  The only exceptions I can
think of are the cases where the "technical architect" actually *was*  the
hardware sales rep...

Of course, when doing my own homework, I *do* look pretty closely at
vendor-supplied information.
I usually skip the brochures, though, and go straight to the spec sheets and
(when available) reference
manuals.  When I feel like having fun, I do this *before* the sales rep is
invited to visit...  ;-)

Often, you won't learn a lot about what a product *can* do this way, but you
may learn a lot about
what it *can't* do.  And when a vendor says their own product cannot do
"xxxx", that information
is *usually* reliable.  (Altough I have been stung that way at least once by
Oracle "documentation bugs".)

On 7/27/06, Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

>>>    This discussion went far from my first question. NAS is
>>>NOT supported ion Windows, for sure. Now I know thant it IS
>>>supported on Linux, but "check with storage vendor". This

don't check with the storage vendor, that is how this guy got
piked by IBM in the first place. Go to the OSCP page.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/oscp.html


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