Re: RAC on Mac News

DA Morgan wrote:

> I'm not sure how to interpret "far under" but a dual proc G5 cluster
> node has a list price of $4.8K and I am aware of them being
discounted
> to $3.6K.

Granted. That is cheap. And likely half what we paid for our Sunfires V20z's.

> Surely you drinking more scotch than I am.

I am.. (hic).. ? (a vodka man myself)

> The AMD and Intel benchmarks
> are so far from the IBM P5 that they need a telescope to see that
far.
> Did you miss the fact that the G5's are using top line IBM P5 CPUs?

Can you please share the URL for the benchmark? It tends to get very confusing when dealing with performance benchmarks.

> > Have heard that OCFS 2 will be available for Solaris.. Would like
to
> > see it myself on HP-UX though.
>
> Why would anyone want to use OCFS? Yes it is there ... but so is ASM.
> OCFS doesn't load balance ... ASM does.

Yeah.. but OCFS is kewl. It does everything vanilla NFS does, but without having a single point of failure (the NFS server). And it serves up a cooked file system that looks and walks like ext3. Which has a lot of use outside Oracle db file usage.

> > Sounds good. But hey, no urges this side to swap my Sunfire V20z
> > cluster for a G5 cluster. :-)
>
> I understand. But I'll bet if I put the numbers in front of your CFO
> he'd have a very different opinion. ;-)

Hahaha.. Sheez, we originally asked for 4 to 6 servers and after they saw the (cheap) pricing, they bought 36.. Now having 64 G5's would have been very interesting.

--
Billy