RE: RAC

fwiw, I have heard that licensing for RAC is incredibly expensive.

But does that really suprise anyone?

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Hormone Oven
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> From: Boivin, Patrice J [SMTP:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:53 AM
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> 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)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:38 AM
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> 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 mª¿ªm
>
> >>> listmail_at_gennick.com 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. Is anyone?
>
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