To which I would add... downtime and losing data can be very expensive so given the alternative, if you need fault tolerance and scalability then maybe it is cheap by comparison.
-----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dennis, True, a 2/3 node clusters ain't that cheap. But to achieve high availability the other choice is to buy a high end server like Sun E10k or the newer ones. And I think the 2/3 node clusters are cheap compare to those big iron boxes and you get a very good availability and scalability from clusters. I think that's the selling point of RAC. You can cluster bunch of cheaper Intel based machines running Linux cluster and run RAC on it. Richard -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Glenn - I have a question you could ask. Oracle talks about how RAC will allow Oracle to make better use of cheap computers. To me the weak point is how much bandwidth you have between the nodes. If you have a gigabit fiber optic connection between the nodes, it might work well, but suppose you have a shared LAN? To me, RAC would work quite nicely in a clustered server, but then we've strolled away from cheap, haven't we? This point is keeping my hardware people from buying into the concept. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am visiting Oracle next week and will be getting a dog-and-pony show on Oracle 9i and RAC (Real Application Clusters). Does anyone have any experience or comments on this product/technology? Can you suggest some burning questions I can pose to Oracle when we get the demos? This is a technical overview and we will be seeing conversions (Apps and non-Apps environments) as well as failure scenarios. Any advice/comments are welcome. Thanks. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Glenn Travis 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). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS 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). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ji, Richard 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). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Orr, Steve 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). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
