Re: RAC and DataWarehouse

On 2006-06-23, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> Even an NFS mount to a NetApp (a dubious choice at best) will
>> include RAC specific gotchas. Based on Oracle IO recommendation, any
>> NFS solution is going to be woefully inadequate for DW.
>
> Many of Oracle's internal databases use this technology. Why is it
> adequate enough for Oracle but inadequate for Oracle's customers?

      "internal database" could many any number of things.

       Oracle also runs some of their "internal databases" through vmware sessions running Linux hosted by Windows. Even this doesn't even necessarily mean that this is something suitable for personal R&D even, nevermind any production use.

       Now, if an NFS Netapp were really what you were making it out to be then you would expect such a configuration to be present on Oracle's newly minted list of "Validated" configurations.        

>
>> In a room full of people that actually have deployed RAC, NFS
>> (even the netapp branded variety) typically doesn't come up.
>
> In a room 'fool' of people? ;-)
>
> Probably because most of the those people haven't been paying attention
> to Oracle. Most DBAs still backup their databases using shell scripts too.

        Where's the "validated" configuration running NFS?

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