On 2006-07-11, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> On 2006-07-07, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>> Ranko.Mosic_at_gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am looking for recommendations on which storage hardware to purchase.
>>>>
>>>> I want to connect 2 white box PC's ( which I have ) and storage
>>>> hardware ( which I don't have yet) into RAC ready config.
>>>> ( I tried Firewire thing, didn't work; VMware works, but is only
>>>> simulation).
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Ranko
>>> If you want to do it on the REALLY cheap then build a JBOD and install
>>> ASM. You might want to look at the ASM White Paper at
>>> http://www.psoug.org/downloads.html.
>>
>> The JBOD still has to be robust enough to survive component failures.
>> That's going to impose OS level system requirements to support as well as
>> redundancy in the storage hardware from your HBA to the disk.
>
> True but irrelevant for someone wishing to build a "real" RAC system
> on which to gain experience and not for production.
It all depends on whether or not he intends to be self-sufficient
or expects to have a gaggle of sysadmins to bail him out anytime he has
a system level problem. Many of the small shops deploying RAC these days
don't have any sort of guru: systems, storage or network. Even some of the
larger shops contemplating RAC these days don't have systems expertise
already.
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Received on Mon Jul 17 2006 - 09:15:18 CDT
