:) Thanks a lot for all the input by you guys. I also want to share my findings from Kevin Closson. He has a lot of IO related knowledge. http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/manly-men-deploy-oracle-with-fibre-channel-only-oracle-over-nfs-is-weird/ From his article, NFS is not a bad choice(netapps), in Oracle 11g, seems oracle provide its NFS solutions. let me come again with more... anyway, thanks a lot ^=^ On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Michael Elkin <melkin4u@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually RAC implementation can be very cheap. > RAC on Oracle SE is free and does not require any extra license cost. > As a shared storage you can use a low-end storage with ASM. > > Michael > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This is all true – for what it's worth, the closest you'll come to cheap >> is low-end iSCSI storage from Dell/Equalogic or Dell/EMC or perhaps one of >> the really low-end NetApps, or look at HP/LeftHand Networks. Don't waste >> your money on a SAN. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Matt >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: >> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Martin Berger >> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:52 PM >> *To:* baojiejie@xxxxxxxxx >> *Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> *Subject:* Re: shared storage solution >> >> >> >> RAC and CHEAP create a great collision! >> >> If you use RAC either for HA or for scaling, you are in regions where >> CHEAP will not fit. >> >> So why not save the (little) money for a non-RAC, but rock solid solution? >> >> >> >> What's your goal behind the idea? >> >> >> >> (I don't want to offend you, I just have to fight the 'cheak' ideas of my >> management too often) >> >> >> >> regards, >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Martin Berger http://berx.at/ >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 ? >> >> >> > > > > -- > Best Regards > Michael Elkin > -- ("'-''-/").___..--''"'-._ '7_ 7 ) '_. ( ).'-.__.') (_Y_.) ._ ) '._ '. ''-..-' _.'--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' Best regards, Yours sincerely House baojiejie@xxxxxxxxx