Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!s53g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "hpuxrac" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: The cheapest hardware for real RAC Date: 7 Jul 2006 17:28:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1152318533.107376.115330@s53g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: <1152238665.756899.255260@s26g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1152297528.490254@bubbleator.drizzle.com> <1152299060.145778.283990@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1152305011.573875@bubbleator.drizzle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.39.205.187 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1152318538 16197 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2006 00:28:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 00:28:58 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1152305011.573875@bubbleator.drizzle.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s53g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.39.205.187; posting-account=Dz_3bQ0AAAC5LZNB2NPEJz1sl_a8qcDY Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:270637 DA Morgan wrote: > Steve Howard wrote: > > DA Morgan wrote: > >> Mladen Gogala wrote: > >> > >>> What was the problem with the FireWire? > >> Try building a 3 or 4 node cluster. ;-) > >> -- > >> Daniel A. Morgan > >> University of Washington > >> damorgan@x.washington.edu > >> (replace x with u to respond) > >> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group > >> www.psoug.org > > > > I mentioned this a couple of months ago, but perhaps you have forgotten > > ;-). I built a three node *test* RAC...with firewire. > > I recall that but it is not a supported configuration. The 'Subject', > above, clearly states "real RAC" and as I recall what you did is not. > BTW: Can you demonstrate fencing with it? Can you get a node to shoot > itself in the head? Does it connection load balance? Why don't you look at the oracle firewire site and see if they have documented doing 3 and 4 node firewire setups? It is easy to talk about something and be wrong. Why don't you do some research yourself?