Re: RAC in NAS

        This discussion went far from my first question. NAS is NOT supported ion Windows, for sure. Now I know thant it IS supported on Linux, but "check with storage vendor". This answers my question, thank you all.

        And about the expensive hardware - you know, when you have approved budget, you buy the hardware and software and so on, and you have to go to the management and say "we will need aditional (at least) 30-40K for SAN storage, becouse the one we took does not work"... Does not sound so well :)

Regards,
Yavor

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:30:57 +0300, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:

> >>>
>>>> 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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