RE: "egenera" 10gRAC ? Anyone ?


We've got extensive experience with 10gR2 + egenera.  Short story: RAC works 
equally well with egenera as normal hardware.  Long story: since the egenera 
boxes look just like normal servers, there's no advantage either way.  Egenera 
talks a good game about their software helping with RAC, but I've never seen a 
customer leverage their provisioning or anything like that to help make RAC 
easier to deploy (in fact, we've had a number of companies come to us to do RAC 
provisioning on egenera).  I have heard people complain that the egenera 
interconnect is unstable under very high IO loads, but have not seen it myself. 
 My .02 on the matter: Egenera is very expensive compared with what you can get 
by assembling your own hardware.  The commoditization of high-speed compute 
connects using InfiniBand means that the last argument for Egenera - that you 
can dynamically create IO connections with high throughput - has gone away.  
Just go buy your hardware vendor of choice and get Topspin IB from Cisco with 
their IO allocation technology.

Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin Closson
Sent: Sun 11/5/2006 10:01 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: "egenera"  10gRAC ? Anyone ?
 
 
I'm really looking forward to any feedback on this one

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>>[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hemant K Chitale
>>>Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:25 AM
>>>To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: "egenera" 10gRAC ? Anyone ?
>>>
>>>
>>>Has anyone on this list  used egenera for 10gRAC ?
--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l

Other related posts: