RE: RAC in NAS

 >>>	This discussion went far from my first question. NAS is 

don't check with the storage vendor, that is how this guy got piked by IBM in the first place. Go to the OSCP page.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/oscp.html

>>>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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