Hello Tom >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC, with options to add or remove servers as you go along. It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers etc. There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also separated databases.
Yechiel Adar Mehish ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle > Parallel Server) and Grid computing? Is this just another fine example of > Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again? they *like* > doing this. > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Actually Dennis is quite correct. Part of the architectural framework is > that you treat disk like a service. All disk storage is sharable across the > enterprise grid you configure. If you have multiple grids in place, you > would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place. Alternately, you > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid. > > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial > requirements for the grid. Forget Oracle pricing folks --> think more > about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center. > > Thank You > > Stephen P. Karniotis > Technical Alliance Manager > Compuware Corporation > Direct: (313) 227-4350 > Mobile: (248) 408-2918 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.compuware.com > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'? > > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids, > don't you think? I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off. > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are > attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable? > > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled > by CPU resources scattered hither and yon. The answer comes from the fairly > recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching > particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other > particle. Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid > becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching > particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved. > Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that > Larry is God. > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Stephen Lee > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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