Oracle RAC on a cart

Oracle Real Application Clusters are a big deal in the enterprise sector. Quoting Oracle's website, it is a 'cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications.'

Pretty nifty, huh? But what does it have to do with Apple, you ask?

Take a gander at the picture to the right. That cart full of equipment is running RAC without a problem, and it can be rolled from room to room, and costs less than similar setups from HP, Dell, or Sun.

Kent Stroke & Daniel Morgan put together the following equipment to demo Oracle running on Apple hardware:

Xserve RAID (5.6 TB of disk)
QLogic SANbox Model 5200 fabric switch
2 dual Xserves
NetApp FAS270

I want two of these carts delivered to me post haste.

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Scott McNulty

Well, it isn't really the cart that excites me, Cullen. Now there's a sentence I never though I would be typing. The idea of that much power in such a portable config is very cool (and even cooler that Apple is the most cost effective way to go).

April 19 2005 at 5:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cullen

dont see what the big deal is with a cart..buy a rack off ebay (i got a beautiful middle atlantic half height one for 120+80 shipping) with a caster base (if you really need to roll around an xserve and 5.6tb of storage - i sure as hell wouldn't). whats the advantage/why is half the excitement that its on a cart? an unstable, insecure, open cart, at that..

April 18 2005 at 1:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

> I want two of these carts delivered to me post haste Surely you must've meant "post restaurant", but mistyped in all haste!

April 18 2005 at 8:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply