RE: RAC Experiences
- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:12:47 -0500
John
What Oracle versions are available for you?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John P Weatherman
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:52 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: RAC Experiences
All,
Given some of the recent postings on RAC, we are probably crazy to continue
looking at it. Still, we have an app that we can see scaling to 40+ CPUs in
the next year and want some way to avoid buying ever bigger servers (with
the attendant ever bigger $$) to handle it. Currently we are looking at IBM
and are left with a few questions:
1) Is anyone running production RAC on AIX and what has the experience been
from a reliability standpoint? Administrative difficulties? Etc?
2) Is anyone running production RAC on Linux on IBM hardware and what has
the experience been from a reliability standpoint? Administrative
difficulties? Etc?
3) IBM claims that their cluster software handles heterogeneous boxes quite
well. We are considering the possibility of getting 3 4-way 530s to "prove
out" and get RAC running. Later we would add in 650s for scaling up.
Eventually the 530s go away and become something else, like a test RAC. Has
anyone been running RAC in a heterogeneous environment and what have your
experiences been?
Any practical experience feedback would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
John P Weatherman
Oracle Database Administrator
Advance America
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