[wellylug] Linux is a recommended clustering Oracle platform

[Brent Wood]

May be of interest....

"Nexcom International is recommending its customers implement its blade servers
with a Linux platform with Oracle 9i/10g RAC (Real Application Cluster) for
greater efficiency in clustering. This solution will solve the needs of Oracle
users who decide not to use a propriety Unix platform.

According to associate vice president of the research and development center,
Steven Wu, Nexcom has tested all of their blade configurations with Red Hat
v9.0 using a 2.4.18 Linux kernel, the Fedora Core v3.0 and Red Hat Enterprise
Server Edition v3.0 both the with a 2.6 Linux kernel. “We’ve also tested SuSE,
Debian and FreeBSD, but we don’t yet recommend them to our customers”, said Wu.

The Nexcom HS416 blade server is available with blades sporting a dual Nocona,
dual Xeon or a dual Opteron architecture or a combination of the three, said
Wu. The HS416 supports up to 8 dual CPU server blades, and combined with one of
the recommended Linux operating system, makes an suitable platform for an
Oracle RAC cluster, which can replace a SUN, IBM, HP or Sequent Server
solution, according to Wu. With Oracle RAC, there is no bottleneck of a “Master
Node” in the configuration, Wu said. The cluster file system of Oracle RAC
enables all servers to access, transfer or load data simultaneously, Wu
explained."