RE: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
- From: "Scott Heisey" <oraracdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Oracle-L Freelists'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:44:20 -0700
Matt, Just out of curiosity, what makes exadata proprietary? The version of
Oracle on exdata is not special and neither is linux. You are stuck with HP
or SUN as the vendor infiniband for the network and there is specific HBA
that is used.
I wouldn't call exdata any more proprietary than IBM HW. However exadata is
a HW solution for a particular application like DWH.
Scott
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On Behalf Of Matthew Zito
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 1:19 PM
To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx; verma.labs@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: RE: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
Personally, I'd say skip the Exadata platform - why lock yourself into a
proprietary architecture? Buy 100 2 x 4-core processor servers with 48GB of
RAM each. That should give you a really good sense of whether your
application will scale in RAC environments. Of course, to make sure I/O
doesn't become a bottleneck, I'd recommend a 2000-disk EMC VMAX with a mix
of flash and fibre channel drives. Each one of the servers should have at
least 4 4-Gb/sec links into the SAN.
This is just for the development environment, of course.
Or, the OP could just google "oracle rac test environment" and see the
options presented. For me, the third one is "Build Your Own Oracle RAC
Cluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI", which definitely won't be as
fast as our solutions, but is almost certainly cheaper. Or, the sixth
option down the page is a presention by the always-popular Dan Norris on
building a RAC environment with VMware.
Matt
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Robert Freeman
Sent: Sat 1/23/2010 11:52 AM
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Subject: Re: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
I'd buy 2 Oracle Exadata 2 servers with about 10tb of storage. You can do
lots of testing there!!
OH! You say that does not meet your budgetary requirements? Did you mention
what your needs or requirements were?
RF
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From: AMIT VERMA <verma.labs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, January 23, 2010 7:49:17 AM
Subject: Oracle RAC Server Conf.
hi,
i would like to test oracle rac 10g & 11g. please advise me what os, vm &
hardware should i use..
thanks in advance
amit v
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