fwiw, I have heard that licensing for RAC is incredibly expensive. But does that really suprise anyone?
Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Hormone Oven Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 > -----Original Message----- > From: Boivin, Patrice J [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:53 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: RAC > > I saw this here too, the 9iRAC servers are each about the size of a > laptop! > > They did a demonstration cluster with OPS with the clustered servers > sitting > on a table. > > I asked a pointed question to one of the presenters re. iAS, whether it > uses > less memory than it used to when it first came out. It took him a while > to > answer, finally he just said that it uses less memory server-side, but it > still uses a lot. > > He didn't mention how much. > > Regards, > Patrice Boivin > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) > > Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des syst�mes > Technology Services | Services technologiques > Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique > Maritimes Region, DFO | R�gion des Maritimes, MPO > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:38 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: RAC > > Jonathan, > At the seminars I have attended it was pointed out that the :true RAC" > is COMPAQ only. The seminar was hosted by Oracle/Compaq. Compaq RAC > allows multiple CPU's to mount and use/share the same datafiles in a > true RAC configuration. The drives including the os drive are on a SAN > and shared by the CPU's so knowledge is shared. It was pointed out the > new Linux RAC can only share a RAW device and not a datafile. I don't > know if this is true as I have not tried it yet. The speaker at the > seminar said that with other OS's a RAC is like a High Availability (HA) > option, one CPU is doing nothing until the first one fails or you only > run different applications and datafiles on one CPU and other > applications and datafiles on the second CPU. if one fails you have to > mount the datafiles and switch applications to the active CPU. > To use a true RAC you have to use Compaq and I think the market share > of the OS's are not True64, so there are probably not a lot of users of > RAC. > Ron > ROR m���m > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/17/02 10:18PM >>> > I was talking w/someone today, and we realized that neither > of us knows of anyone actually using RAC in production. So > now I'm curious. 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