Re: PING: Dan Morgan - re. PSOUG training

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:30:21 -0700
Message-ID: <1144427416.854833@yasure.drizzle.com>

hpuxrac wrote:
> BD wrote:

>>> HTH
>> Very much!! Looks like plenty of material.

>
> Looks very similar to what Jeffrey Hunter has at
> http://www.idevelopment.info
>
> Mr. Hunter has complete detailed step by step instructions -- all free
> of course.

PSOUG doesn't sell instructions. It provides hand's on classes where each student gets their own server, the ability to build up to an 8 node cluster, and instruction on concepts, architecture, network design, storage design and more (Not some FireWire imitation of the real thing).

If someone just wants a cookbook there are many available for free. But experience dictates that most problems with RAC involve things like how to interpret what one sees when tailing a log file. That information is not in any cookbook I've ever seen.

The expense in learning to build a 4 node or larger cluster is not the instruction ... it is the hardware, the facility, and the insurance. We routinely help students that have never worked with RAC build a cluster, from scratch (meaning no pre-existing network or operating system) in 6 hours. No cookbook will guarantee a working cluster in a single day and the knowledge of how to do it in the following weeks or months.

Many who get these cookbooks struggle with them for days or weeks and often only end up with a FireWire simulant to which it is impossible to even add a third node.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)

Received on Fri Apr 07 2006 - 11:30:21 CDT