Re: RAC in NAS

I am not much of a hardware person..., but I thought NAS was cheaper than SAN 
and SAN was better? Has that changed or is that an over simplified view? 

Any bench marks comparing the two? 

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Yavor Ivanov" <Yavor_Ivanov@xxxxxxxx> 

> They are planning on 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.2). 
> In fact, the IBM guys advised them to take SAN for RAC, not NAS, but the 
> custumer insisted on "the latest, the best, the most expensive, cutting edge 
> technology". The same is for the Oracle release - they take EE and never ask 
> if 
> Standard Edition is fine for them. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Yavor 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:25:07 +0300, Nuno Souto wrote: 
> 
> > Yavor Ivanov wrote,on my timestamp of 26/07/2006 10:09 PM: 
> >> 
> >> I had a call from a custumer, who bought 2 IBM servers with x64 (4 
> Xeon64 CPUs per node) 
> > > architectures and NAS, seeking for RAC solution on Windows. 
> > > Unfortunately, they did not ask anyone before bying the hardware and now 
> they 
> > have this so 
> > > expensive hardware which is not supported for RAC on Windows. 
> > > Oracle RAC supports only SAN on Windows. So sad. 
> > 
> > No, not sad. It's what Oracle supports. At most, it's terminally stupid for 
> > the customer to go out and buy hardware without checking first. But 
> > then again, IBM would never ask them to check firstt, selling comes before 
> > all that?... 
> > 
> > 
> >> So I was wondering, if anyone of you tried running RAC on Linux with 
> NAS? 
> > > Is it running, and is it supported? Unfortunltely I could not find 
> > > hard statement is it working solution (and for Windows it is 
> > > written that it does NOT work: 
> > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/clustering/ 
> > > certify/tech_generic_window.html ). 
> > 
> > Haven't yet tried RAC on Linux with anything. Having enough trouble 
> > here making vanilla 9ir2 work fine with ASSM and LOBs in Linux 
> > dedicated. Let alone RAC! But that's another story: for those 
> > with access to Metaclick, seek out the list of bug fixes planned 
> > for 9.2.0.8, then read on the ASSM and LOB bug references there. 
> > Yes, Virginia: we've just hit every single one of them! 
> > Fun and games... 
> > 
> > I don't think NAS is supported for RAC on Linux. However, I'll stand 
> > corrected if anyone knows different. As well, it might help if you give 
> > us a hint on which versions of Oracle and Linux the customer is 
> > planning to run? Or is that pre-determined already by 
> > "oh-so-knowledgeable" IBM? 
> > 
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