The only problem with NetApp is you have to be thir customer.
Firewire disk you can buy for $250, couple of network cards and you have
real 2 node RAC.
VmWare is good, but doesn't give you real RAC "feel" since it happens on one
box.
On 8/24/06, Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee> wrote:
>
> Amir,
>
> I wouldn't recommend spending money and time on hacking RAC working on a
> firewire disk.
>
> If your whole database with all accompanying files is on this single disk,
> then many sorts of performance experimentation will be bottlenecked by
> seek
> time of this disk. For example when you test Cache Fusion, then any redo
> related to a block must be flushed to disk before it can shipped to
> another
> node, meaning waiting for log file IO even if you don't commit.
>
> So, if you don't need any performance experimentation, the easiest way
> would
> be going with vmware / Oracle desktop datacentre bundle.
>
> If you want to test this on dedicated boxes, then it would make more sense
> to use NFS or the NetApp simulator..
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/garg-netapp-simulator.html
>
> Tanel.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hameed, Amir
> > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 02:24
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: Question on FireWire drive model for Oracle RAC
> >
> > Folks,
> > Is there anyone using the "Maxtor OneTouch III FireWire
> > drive" with Linux and 10G RAC? It seems that the Maxtor II
> > FrieWire drives listed in document
> > http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2.
> > html are mostly not available. I am looking for an alternative.
>
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