Re: RAC

On May 22, 3:22 am, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> DA Morgan wrote:
> > newbie wrote:
> >> On May 21, 11:18 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
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> >>>> Hi Guys
> >>>> I was trying to study Oracle RAC
> >>>> To have a test system I was proposing the following
> >>>> a) Convert a Desktop 4GB RAM , 160 GB HDD to SUSE Linux and try to
> >>>> install RAC on this.
> >>>> Is this possible ??
> >>>> Objective is only for study purposes
> >>>> Please comment
> >>> Truly no. You can fake it with VMWare, and similar kludges, but you will
> >>> not have RAC. How, for example, can you test breaking the cache fusion
> >>> memory interconnect?
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> >>> Daniel A. Morgan
> >>> University of Washington
> >>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
> >>> (replace x with u to respond)
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> >> what route do u recommend ??
> >> please recommend o/s and hardware and oracle version etc etc
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> > My recommendation is to hit eBay and pick up a used NetApp, F810
> > or later. They are generally available for not much more than a good
> > PC. Then you can have RAW, ASM, CFS, whatever you want and it is all
> > the real deal.
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> > Yes it will cost more than VMWare. But it will be the real thing. Just
> > be sure to get one with GigE NIC cards.
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> For study purposes, the "real thing" may well be over the top.
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> Heard iSCSI can do the same, and you can do that with several
> Linux based NAS/SAN software - still trying to figure out the details,
> so can't be specific on that, but it is worth looking into
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> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
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I agree with this 100%. I learn far more on crummy hardware, as more stuff breaks that I have to figure out how to fix :)

Regards,

Steve Received on Tue May 22 2007 - 11:02:02 CDT