Anyone Running Linux/Oracle?

Lance A. Brown ncsa-discussion@ncsysadmin.org
12 Dec 2002 10:51:55 -0500


On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:40, Iztok Umek wrote:
> At this point I am looking into "proof of concept" for 9i RAC configuration.
> 
> I am thinking of the following:
> 
> Oracle 9i RAC + Dell 1650 (2 processor) + NFS storage (at this point just
> another box with NFS, that will be replaced with NAS solution).

Be very careful doing this.  NetApp and Oracle worked together to make
NFS on a NetApp suitable for Oracle data storage.  I don't believe a
standard UNIX/Linux NFS server will meet those requirements.

> Anyone has expereince with low cost 9i RAC + Linux solutions?

We're not doing RAC here yet.

--[Lance]

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