Oracle RAC on a cart

By Scott McNulty

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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