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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Virtual RAC on Solaris E15k
Shoot the damagement. As usual they have no idea.
Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mark Moynahan
Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 5:38 AM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: Virtual RAC on Solaris E15k
Management has come to our team and asked about putting a 9i RAC on a single e15K. We completed their request by building a two node cluster on a single e15k. The problem is that management thinks this will buy them redundancy. When management was asked 'How would RAC on e15k provide redundancy if the e15k goes down?' their rebuttal was 'The e15k rarely ever goes down and there needs to be db redundancy in relation to the e15k hardware.' This doesn't make sense to me. Why bother with virtual RAC when there is still a single point of failure? The added complexity of RAC doesn't provide any real benefits. Can anyone argue in favor of putting virtual RAC on an e15k? Wouldn't a logical standby be a better option?
Thanks,
Mark
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