You cant really do cheap production shared storage. Your realistic choices are: a cluster filesystem or asm which both require a san/nas type solution or else a nas/nfs filer type solution. None of these are exactly cheap, though by enterprise standards they arent necessarily expensive either. On 10/28/08, bao jiejie <baojiejie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > yeap, what my concern is a cheap production RAC Linux environment. > Any advice except SAN on HP or EMC ?? > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:19 AM, <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So that is more for a testing pypurpose... >> ------Original Message------ >> From: bao jiejie >> To: zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx >> Sent: Oct 27, 2008 8:03 PM >> Subject: Re: shared storage solution >> >> http://www.idevelopment.info/ <http://www.idevelopment.info/> >> U will get some inexpensive RAC implementation docs. >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:54 AM, <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: >> zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> Can you share the link for jeff's note? Is that firewire??? Using virtual >> shared storage? >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >> >> ---------------- >> From: "bao jiejie" <baojiejie@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:baojiejie@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:51:03 +0800 >> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Subject: shared storage solution >> >> >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I am planning a cheap RAC solution based on Red hat Enterprise 4 Linux (or >> oracle unbreakable Linux) . >> >> I get some hints from Jeff Hunter's storage solution, but i am not sure if >> it a stable one, and also the performance? >> >> Do anyone else implement such kind of "cheap" RAC setup with a very nice >> storage solution? >> What is your concern while you choose it ? >> >> This is my first thread, hope do not causing chaos if i do something wrong >> :) >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Yours House >> >> >> >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >> > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l