RE: RAC in NAS

From: Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:30:57 -0700
Message-ID: <5D2570CAFC98974F9B6A759D1C74BAD0E5ABB7@ex2.ms.polyserve.com>

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>>>	I had a call from a custumer, who bought 2 IBM servers

>>>with x64 (4 Xeon64 CPUs per node) architectures and NAS,
>>>seeking for RAC solution on Windows. Unfortunately, they did
>>>not ask anyone before bying the hardware and now they have
>>>this so expensive hardware which is not supported for RAC on
>>>Windows. Oracle RAC supports only SAN on Windows. So sad.

This is weird on many levels. IBM's NAS is a resold NetApp. Should be able to do the trick. NetApp does the multiprotocol really well ...so pick, FC or iSCSI...

and, I don't see any expensive hardware here. This is for RAC, so there will likely be more money tied up on RAC licensing on than on the hardware since there are 8 CPUs total.

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Received on Wed Jul 26 2006 - 11:30:57 CDT