[Gllug] Hardware recommendation, esp. SANs and shared storage

[Robin Smith]

I've asked an Oracle employee if he can find out what hardware Oracle
are using internally - I'm going on holiday for a week so don't expect a
quick answer.

Robin

On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 16:16, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're looking to put together some fairly hefty Oracle
> servers, initially configured as primary and standby, but
> ultimately we're planning to go the real application
> clustering route, as the business people think load could
> quadruple in a year, and the finance people believe them
> :-)
> 
> There was some discussion on this list a while back about
> external storage.  Someone mentioned a company based in
> Wimbledon who do beige-box fibrechannel storage, but I
> can't find it in the archive.  We need at least a terabyte
> available (probably in a mix of RAID 5 and 0+1), ideally
> in a chassis with room to double that.
> 
> Because of the RAC architecture and the requirement to go
> beyond 2 DB servers sometime, NAS and shared SCSI are not
> an option.
> 
> Similarly, anyone have experience with new, chunky (4-8
> CPUs, 4-16Gb RAM) hardware from the usual Big Names?  It
> looks like Dell offer the best bang per buck, and with
> pretty current hardware, but two of our guys have horror
> stories about Dell support.
> 
> Any opinions or experiences on any of the above most
> gratefully received.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> - currently trying to convince Oracle reseller that
>   a 4-way P4 with hyperthreading is only 4 CPUs for
>   licencing purposes :-)
> 
> 
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