Re: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe Hi! Of course you have to plan your servers' capacity accordingly, that in the event of node failure, the other node will not get too loaded. When one node crashes, the second one has to deal with queries and transactions of both servers and we must

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-19 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe Hi Rajesh, Thanks for the detailed reply and I really appreciate that. Certain clarifications. 1. With reference to what you said about using both the nodes, you meant that we can install another database (lets say for reporting purpose) or/and also

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-19 Thread RAJESH DAYAL
Title: RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe Hi Hussain, Replies are inline . With reference to what you said about using both the nodes, you meant that we can install another database (lets say for reporting purpose) or/and also 9iAS on one node and our main production database

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-17 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
different on RAC? We have the licensed RAC and Oracle Fail Safe CDs, so that is not an issue. I also believe that setting up RAC is more complex, so we wanted to confirm that if Fail Safe gives us HA, 24x7, and any change in node shifting (when active is down, passive becomes active) is transparent

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-17 Thread RAJESH DAYAL
Title: RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe Hi Hussain ! RAC can have Active-Active or Active-Passive combination for two nodes. While OFS can't give you Active-Active combination of two nodes. Basically a resource sharing is not possible in Oracle Fail safe so one resource can be used by only one

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-17 Thread RAJESH DAYAL
Title: RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe Answers in line... -- I also believe that setting up RAC is more complex, That's not totally true, For a DBA it shouldn't matter much, whether he is setting up RAC or OFS. But yes relatively RAC is a bit complex to manage. -- and any change in node

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
of list ORACLE-L Hello all, We have setup a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster, with two nodes, using W2K, and now are in the process of deploying Oracle 9i on it. For the purpose of high availability (HA), we are deliberating on setting up either RAC or Oracle Fail Safe. The confusion is over

RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Hello all, We have setup a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster, with two nodes, using W2K, and now are in the process of deploying Oracle 9i on it. For the purpose of high availability (HA), we are deliberating on setting up either RAC or Oracle Fail Safe. The confusion is over the fact

Re: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Tanel Poder
:44 PM Hello all, We have setup a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster, with two nodes, using W2K, and now are in the process of deploying Oracle 9i on it. For the purpose of high availability (HA), we are deliberating on setting up either RAC or Oracle Fail Safe. The confusion is over

RE: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Tony Johnson
have setup a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster, with two nodes, using W2K, and now are in the process of deploying Oracle 9i on it. For the purpose of high availability (HA), we are deliberating on setting up either RAC or Oracle Fail Safe. The confusion is over the fact that if we get HA

Re: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Allen R. Lucas
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Re: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Jared . Still
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