On 2006-03-01, Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> $5K US/CPU for hardware + Oracle RAC + 3 year support.
>>
>> 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.
> Thanks for the clarification.
> It wouldn't hurt your reputation to not forget about 2/3 of the price of
> the _system_ especially when you accuse me of doing marketing.
Just past the "you now need a NUMA system" threshold is kind of
the sweet spot for RAC. If you are either not quite to that point or way
past that point then the value of RAC is disputable. Large NUMA systems
are built to have the inherent benefits of RAC and smaller systems don't
need the shared storage or the high speed networks.
RAC admins should be more like Kung Fu masters then amway salesmen.
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Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 10:32:16 CST
