Re: 10g RAC: max performance & min cost with miSCSI?

On 2005-11-22, slee328_at_gmail.com <slee328_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Heikki:
>
> I agree with Daniel's recommendations because NetApps are FAST but it
> is NAS. It provides 99.99% availability instead of the pricy SAN with
> 99.999 availability. However, with the NetFiler, you save on clustered
> file systems and with the costs saving, you can always mirror your
> disks volumes to give you no single point of failure on the storage
> unit. Unless you absolutely need the 64GB/s type of I/O throughput,
> NetApp will do the job just fine. BTW, Oracle, Yahoo and Google uses
> Netapps for their Oracle DBs as well.

        Yeah, but not all netapps are NAS. Some Netapps are FC SAN and as pricey as anything from EMC or Hitachi.

>
> For the CPU, if you can only buy 1 CPU for your system, purchase the
> IBM PPC chip instead of Xeon. You can go to www.tpc.org to find out
> the numbers for this CPU. It is FAST and you can run RH Linux on it
> instead of AIX.

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