Re: 10gR2 RHL4 on AMD opteron 64-bit or HP Itanium?

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:35:42 GMT
Message-ID: <iW%lf.28194$dO2.13465@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>

>>>>High-end Itanium systems can scale up to over 100 processors in a single
>>>>machine. Opteron systems sold by major vendors only go up to 4.
>>>
>>>More bugs per box eh?
>>>
>>>If you are building a RAC cluster ... more than 4 CPU's in a box may be
>>>strongly indicative that you haven't been paying attention to Oracle's
>>>message.
>>>--
>>
>>
>> And what would that message be?
>
> Low cost resilient hardware.
> Use low-cost commodity components.
>

Although "low cost" and "resilient hardware" don't always go together, I do not object to Oracle's marketing message.

> You don't buy an 8CPU box ... you buy 4 x 2CPU boxes or 2 x 4 CPU
> boxes. This has been Oracle's message for years. I'm surprised you
> are not familiar with it.
> --

An 8CPU box? We are talking about multi-node clusters with more than 4 CPUs per node. In OP's case, it is a 2-node. Received on Thu Dec 08 2005 - 13:35:42 CST