RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-06 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Bernardus Deddy Hoeydiono [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I suggest if your O/S (Win2K) running well ,please don't apply the service if not necessary. Perhaps this is the advice most people followed that's why that Slammer worm took off. -- Lyndon Tiu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-06 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I had to apply the SP1 for Oracle to run. I built the PC from all off-the-shelf inexpensive parts ;) I will now let my Win NT4.0 Server die on its own... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L upto you if you're

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Ji
Precisely. Our partner's SA also followed this idea and that's why his Sun server crashed due to a NFS bug. Unfortunately, my database was on it. :( Richard -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Quoting Bernardus Deddy

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Bernardus Deddy Hoeydiono
SUN to Windows ?. Why do you want to used Windows. I think SUN more more better than Windows. I suggest please don't used Windows. As you you known the Windows system is not stable. SUN more more stable than Windows. I think you have to think more than twice for using Windows. -Original

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Seema, what do you mean by clustering? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, We are looking from migration from Sun box to Windows box. Is anyone used Windows clustering

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Tony Johnson
We have had an excellent experience with our Windows2000 clusters. Since moving to a clustered environment on our Test, Beta and Production systems over 18 months ago we have had 0 ( Zero ) outages due to Windows. in fact I have yet to see a BSOD on over 20 database servers since going to

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Jesse, Rich
Saying Windows is unstable shows no lack of understanding. It is a fact. At least a fact for me. I try to keep my Win2000 as stable as possible, but since the kernel now contains fun things like *video* (not in the original plans for this New Technology), I must reboot at least once a week or

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Windows is cheaper than SUN. Linux is cheaper than Windows. Quoting Tony Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have had an excellent experience with our Windows2000 clusters. Since moving to a clustered environment on our Test, Beta and Production systems over 18 months ago we have had 0 ( Zero )

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle SUN to Windows ?. Why do you want to used Windows. I think SUN more more better than Windows. I suggest please don't used

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- As much as I hate defending Windoze, Win2k is in fact rather stable, at least Win2k server is. I have one system on Win2k that I reboot, oh, every 6 months or so. Death to NT though. The biggest problem that I have seen is (to me anyway) not one of

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
Oh yeah, the thing I hate most about Windows as a server. Try to do remote administration from any machine regardless of the OS. Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L -Original Message- As much as

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Stephen - I appreciate your comments. One of the hard things for me to understand is that if you're going to be working on W2K, better plan on being the administrator. At Unix sites we tend to have DBAs supported by sys admins. Some shops may indeed treat W2K that way. But usually if you are

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
My recent PC runs Win 2000 Server edition. I have two 9i Rel 2 databases running on it with no problems thus far. In the past several weeks (since I got it), it has not booted by itself. But my NT 4.0 Server (3 years old now), did that twice, in the middle of the night, when no one was watching

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Bernardus Deddy Hoeydiono
upto you if you're sure that your Windows is OK. But, You have to carefull with the service pack in Windows 2K. I suggest if your O/S (Win2K) running well ,please don't apply the service if not necessary. BTW, What kind of server that you used and spec of the server ? Thank's Bernardus Deddy

Re: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-04 Thread BigP
Sun to Windoz ..h ... are u sure ? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:34 PM Hi, We are looking from migration from Sun box to Windows box. Is anyone used Windows clustering with oracle8i? Is this

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Broodbakker, Mario
Seema, Yes, there is. On NT4 it was called MS Cluster Service, not so much cluster 'scalability-wise', but it allowed for failover. Oracle supplied some software on top of that: Oracle Fail Safe. If you only want failover, it's sufficient to use those product, you don't need RAC or OPS. It

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Yes you can go for Active-Active cluster configuration of RAC or else Active-Passive configuration of Oracle Fail Safe on Windows Cluster. Both of these are available on Windows 2000 cluster. Let me know, if you want more info. HTH, Rajesh -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- I wanted to migrate my database from SUN solaris to WINDOWS 2000 platform. - ... and there was a time when I thought it would be neat to put splinters in my bathroom tissue. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-28 Thread Gogala, Mladen
HP has such a software. It used to be know as Compaq TrueCluster. As for migrating from Solaris to Windows,it's a good decision. Many software packages do not work at all with Solaris or any Unix version. One that has become very popular lately is called slammer. It only works with Win2k and

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-28 Thread rich rich
LMAOROTF --- Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP has such a software. It used to be know as Compaq TrueCluster. As for migrating from Solaris to Windows,it's a good decision. Many software packages do not work at all with Solaris or any Unix version. One that has become very