RE: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster

From: Austin, Steve S <steve.s.austin_at_xo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:50:41 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003548B7.20010725072554@fatcity.com>

We're using Sun Cluster 2.2 and a mix of VCS implementations, all on Solaris -- 2.6, 2.7 and 8. It seems likely our HP Service Guard will also migrate to VCS as well.

The SC2.2 product has had more sensitivity to the Oracle version than the VCS product. It also seems to have more of its "guts" exposed, while VCS is better encapsulated in its GUI. I have no experience with SC3.0.

We don't use OPS here yet, but it looks like Veritas has an option to support it; not sure if it's in the base VCS product or not -- knowing their $trategie$, it probably i$n't included in the ba$e package. Check out this URL to see the press release on "VERITAS Database Edition/Advanced Cluster for Oracle" that talks about supporting OPS: http://www.veritas.com/news/press/PressReleaseDetail.jhtml?NewsId=9436

:)
sa
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We had a study made by a third party between Sun cluster and Veritas cluster both version 2.X and 3.x

After that study, we have chosen Veritas cluster 2.x

Sun Cluster 3 requires Solaris 8, all our boxes are on 7 and Sun Cluster 2.X doesn't handle T300 disk box which we have. Sun software doesn't handle all Sun hardware...

• KC <kchan_at_speednet.com.au> a écrit : > Steve,
  >
  > Thanks for your input, I had previously used HP
  > Service Guard on HP-UX platform, it worked for us. I
  > am now on Sun platform and looking at HA solution
  > using either Sun or Veritas clustering solution, I
  > also heard that the older version of Sun clustering
  > is not very sophisticated compared to other
  > clustering solution, are you using 2.x or the latest
  > 3.0, from what I read on Sun web site, v3.0 seems to
  > do a lot more than the old version, any comments
  > from the list?? The other things I need to check is
  > rather OPS is supported with Veritas Cluster on Sun
  > platform, anyone know??
  >
  > KC
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Austin, Steve S <steve.s.austin_at_xo.com>
  > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  > <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
  > Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:31 AM
  > Subject: RE: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster
  >
  >
  > I have used both and somewhat prefer VCS. In
  > both systems, we've had problems where the cluster
  > was in an unknown state and any action to change the
  > state was risky to all the services in the cluster.
  > This is rare for both products.
  >
  > Our Sun support required for us to pay them to
  > certify our stuff before they'd support the
  > implementation. Don't know if you're subject to
  > this too, but VCS has no such rule. The tests were
  > interesting, but we could conduct the tests without
  > their involvement.
  >
  > Command-line jocks may at first prefer Sun, but
  > I think Veritas is a better bet since it's not as
  > tied to the hardware vendor, and is more likely to
  > be common across Unixes, if you're in a site where
  > you've got more than one Unix vendor's stuff to
  > support, like I am.
  >
  > We are in the process of migrating from Sun
  > cluster to VCS, fyi.
  >
  > my 2¢
  > Steve
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: KC [mailto:kchan_at_speednet.com.au]
  > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:51 AM
  > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  > Subject: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster
  >
  >
  > List,
  >
  > Just wondering if anyone on the list who had
  > experience on both Sun clustering and Veritas
  > clustering software share their experience on both
  > products, strength and weakness or any comparison??
  >
  > KC
  >
  

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Stéphane Paquette
DBA Oracle, consultant entrepôt de données Oracle DBA, datawarehouse consultant
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