Mark ducks and braces for the next holy war! Why don't you ask which editor is better, Emacs or vi?? ;-) -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Oracle Architect ProQuest Information & Learning Ours is the age that is proud of machines that can think and suspicious of men who try to. --H. Mumford Jones, 1892-1980 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:41 AM To: Yavor_Ivanov@xxxxxxxx; dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Yavor Ivanov; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 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/clus tering / > > > 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? > > > > -- > http://www. freeli sts.org/webpage/oracle-l > >