[ale] OT consulting oppourtunity... Fw: looking for a specialist

Randy Ramsdell rramsdell at livedatagroup.com
Thu May 29 09:45:43 EDT 2008


Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Ouch.
>
> NAS NFS for a DB?!  They don't require good performance I'm guessing.
>
> RAC on Linux requires use of either OCFS2 (Oracle Cluster Filesystem) or
> ASM (raw devices).  I'm not sure you could do either of those on NAS
> NFS.   You CAN do them on the EMC Clariion over fibre (and possibly
> iSCSI) because we are doing that (fibre) here.  If they haven't bought
> the hardware yet they may wish to rethink it.
>
>   

I would definitely use iSCSI ( fiber or copper ) and ofcs2. They 
probably already bought the storage, however.
>
> 	
>
>
> --- On Tue, 5/13/08, Ken Meacham <meacham123 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Ken Meacham <meacham123 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Fw: looking for a specialist
>> To: "Bill" <dbaron13 at comcast.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 5:13 AM
>> --- On Mon, 5/12/08, Matt Payne
>> <Matt.Payne at cbeyond.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> From: Matt Payne <Matt.Payne at cbeyond.net>
>>> Subject: looking for a specialist
>>> To: "Matt Payne"
>>>       
>> <Matt.Payne at cbeyond.net>
>>     
>>> Cc: "Matt Payne"
>>>       
>> <Matt.Payne at cbeyond.net>
>>     
>>> Date: Monday, May 12, 2008, 6:54 AM
>>> Hey do you know anyone that can help with this work
>>>       
>> project
>>     
>>> below.
>>> Please contact me with the best qualified person you
>>>       
>> know
>>     
>>> for this job,
>>> thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Matthew H. Payne
>>> Channel Manager
>>> Cbeyond
>>> 360 Interstate North Parkway Suite 600
>>> Atlanta, GA 30339
>>> Office- 678-424-2768
>>> Fax- 770-874-4369
>>> matt.payne at cbeyond.net
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope all is well.  I am writing to you today to see
>>>       
>> if
>>     
>>> you know of
>>> anyone 
>>> who has experience in measuring performance from
>>>       
>> networking
>>     
>>> persective
>>> of 
>>> NAS environments ideally in an Oracle Ebusiness RAC
>>> environment running
>>> on 
>>> Linux.  I have a small engagement possibly in ATL,
>>>       
>> where
>>     
>>> the client has
>>> a 
>>> RAC cluster on Red Hat ES 4. The storage is EMC
>>>       
>> Cellera
>>     
>>> triplexed on 
>>> separate VLAN's routed through two Cisco switches.
>>>       
>> The
>>     
>>> Cellera has some 
>>> firmware on it that enables NFS for the disks so both
>>>       
>> the
>>     
>>> RAC nodes can
>>> see 
>>> the storage.  The engagement would be approximately
>>>       
>> 2-3
>>     
>>> weeks, and would
>>>
>>> entail performance measurement, evaluation of the
>>> architecture and 
>>> recommendations around improvement of the above
>>> infrastructure
>>> components.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>
>
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