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:
- Is anyone running production RAC on AIX and what has the experience been from a reliability standpoint? Administrative difficulties? Etc?
- Is anyone running production RAC on Linux on IBM hardware and what has the experience been from a reliability standpoint? Administrative difficulties? Etc?
- 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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