We have just setup (still in the testing phase) a RHAS cluster on a Xiotech Magnitude SAN. We will setup a high availability email system. The SAN is very nice, connected through fiber cards, very fast. We won't be running Oracle, but if you need to connect two or more machines together a SAN is a nice solution. The Magnitude is one of the cheaper/better solutions out there. Their claim to fame is that they don't have a cache to store data, the data goes straight to disk. So some people claim a higher throughput with their SAN, but they're writing to cache not to disk.
Right now you can get a Magnitude with 32 73G disk. A LOT of disk space. -- Brad Bendily - CNA On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Banker, Craig wrote: > Looking at RAC for Oracle 9i. (running on RHAS) Shared Drivespace. Digging > info on people with the same cfg through Oracle has been fruitless and is > raising the wrong flags... looking at Dell's bundled package > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dustin Puryear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Oracle on Linux / High Availability > > > At 09:53 AM 10/23/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Red Hat Advanced Server has the high-availability features you > >mentioned. You may want to take a look at that. (Costs money, but > >nowhere near the price of Oracle anyway :) > > Yes, I've managed a Linux cluster running with RHAS and it's not bad. We > were running MySQL in a fail-over configuration and Apache in a > load-balancing configuration and everything worked nicely. Something to > look at. We were basically using LVS. So, short answer: this is definitely > doable and has been done many times. There are alternatives to LVS for > Linux, but I haven't used them. > > What was your plan? A hot standby? That should actually be pretty easy. > > Regards, Dustin > > > > >-Tim > > > > > >On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 09:45, Banker, Craig wrote: > > > Thanks Alvaro, > > > > > > I've got those same disks; I got the db running (only had a few > > problems due > > > to a very buggy installer) Oracle on Linux is not a problem. I'm more > > > concerned with a "High Availability" (not necessarily a application > > > clustering) configuration with linux and oracle (i.e. shared storage, a > > > heartbeat nick, and failover scripts...) > > > > > > Any such luck with something like this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alvaro Zuniga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:43 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Oracle on Linux / High Availability > > > > > > > > > Craig, > > > > > > I have a couple disks if you would like to try it yourself. One is the > > > Enterprise Edition 8i Release 2 and the other is Oracle WebDB. Both are > > > linux version. > > > > > > I am not sure if how they work. I got this disks from Oracle about two > > > years ago and never really used them because they arrived to late. They > > > are the versions that you can obtain if you register with them. I > > > believe they are fully functional otherwise I woudl not have bother with > > > them. > > > > > > Alvaro > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 15:20, Banker, Craig wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone had experience with Oracle on Linux in a high availability > > > > configuration? > > > > > > > > Please do tell..... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
