Re: RAC storage options
- From: Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:52:01 -0400
NFS is the best option from an administrative perspective for RAC
clusters, but tragically, Oracle only supports two platforms: EMC
Celerra and Netapp Filer. I say this with all love and respect for
EMC, but the Celerra is a dog of a product. Which leaves the filer -
Netapp has a pretty wide range of sizes, both capacity and performance.
Any SAN vendor is supported, but you end up with a lot more complexity
and having to deal with multiple software products interacting
(clustered volume manager, clustered file system, cluster server,
etc.). Certain cluster server options - for example, Veritas Advanced
Cluster for RAC, have much more specific/limited supported
configurations in terms of storage.
There's a lot of variables here - you can feel free to contact me
off-list if you would like to talk further.
Thanks,
Matt
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On Apr 13, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Daniel Hanks wrote:
> We're looking to upgrade our current database architecture, to
> something that will handle potentially 3-4 times our current
> load/size, etc. We're looking at RAC as an option, but I'm wondering
> what storage options are available for RAC. At a Technology Day about
> a year or so back, they showed a small RAC cluster using a NetApp for
> the shared storage component. What other storage options are
> available? EMC is the obvious other, but what else is
> available/supported? Anything that serves lots of disk via NFS?
>
> Currently we are managing around 50G of data+indexes, so it's not a
> whole lot we need in terms of space. Moving up to 4x that would only
> be 200G, still not very large. Are there options cheaper than NetApp
> that would be feasible?
>
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