RE: RAC - mix Intel and AMD in same cluster ?

  • From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:00:22 -0400

It should work fine - we have clusters here that are like that.   As
long as the architecture and OS match, the only difference you'll see is
any performance differences between the two processors.

Thanks,
Matt

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> Subject: RAC - mix Intel and AMD in same cluster ?
> 
> Has anybody here built or upgraded a 10g RAC cluster using a mix of
both
> Intel and AMD processors ?  We have an existing 3 node RAC cluster, RH
> Linux 4 with AMD Opteron 3 ghz dual core cpu's.   It is being
considered
> to add a 4th node but with Intel CPU since the servers we used ( HP DL
> 585 G2 ) are no longer available new.   Any thoughts in mixing Intel
and
> AMD processors in the same cluster ?  We are also looking at upgrading
> the existing processors from dual-core to quad-core, but the quads
seem
> to max out at 2.4 ghz while the duals go to at least 3.2 ghz.
Obviously
> OS and Oracle will stay same version, but we might be forced to use
> Intel to add additional nodes, assuming it even works.
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