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Serge Rielau wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>> Last production RAC cluster I built ... 10 nodes, 20 CPUs was done, >> including storage for under $100K US including 3 year support agreement, >> rail kits, everything. Get us the comparison price for two (because you >> need one for failover) 20 CPU boxes from the vendor of your choice.
Hardware and operating system and SAN and fibre switches. Obviously not the RAC licenses. But those add about $200K which still put us at a fraction of the cost of 2 x 20 CPU boxes.
> That's pretty steep discounting even if the hardware were free.
> Mind to disclose how this breaks up into pieces?
You might be amused to know that I just received a committment for a dozen dual proc IBM boxes just yesterday for the amazingly low price of zero dollars and zero cents. It is great to have a good working relationship with your company. ;-)
Rumor has it they are selling more UNIX boxes supporting Oracle than DB2 and Informix combined. I wonder where I heard that?
> Cheers
> Serge
>
> PS: I won't comment on the assumption that Oracle on RAC scales out as
> well as Oracle using SMP scales up.
Real-world experience, documentation published by H/P, and work in my lab repeatedly demonstrates scale-out at 80-90% with most often the range being 82-85%.
-- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)Received on Tue Feb 28 2006 - 17:13:29 CST