Re: Is RAC DOA?

I sure hope its not dead - my company's whole business is based around RAC. :) The problem is, like you said, it can be expensive for those organizations unable or unwilling to fight the good fight against oracle. Also, a certain number of DBAs (this list, by the way, is much more atypical than what I see out in the field) are averse to technologies like Linux, Intel, and active/active clustering for a variety of (generally not very good) reasons. In addition, RAC is hard to set up, get working in a stable fashion, and manage long-term (again, see why our whole business is based around RAC).

We are actually seeing RAC as a rapidly growing segment of the Oracle market, but mostly among large organizations that are taking a serious look at replacing many of their low- to mid-tier databases with RAC clusters. These organizations are also tending to license RAC on a sitewide basis.

I'm sorry for not addressing your question earlier. We do not see that behavior in our lab with our product. The other individual who replied is using the Veritas advanced cluster, which uses a totally different transport protocol for the interconnect traffic (GAB/LLT instead of IP and UDP). Ours is on Linux, stock Oracle cluster manager, 9.2.0.3 through 9.2.0.5.

Thanks,
Matt

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On Aug 16, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Ray Stell wrote:

>


> I posed a question here last week wrt RAC and got one response.

> Is there a concentration of RAC users elsewhere?  I find the

> metalink forum practically worthless, which is probably another

> strong indicator that RAC is dead.  Pricing issues, right?


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