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Re: Oracle RAC cost justification?

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:04:00 +0100
Message-ID: <bf463805060116048b8f31e@mail.gmail.com>


On 6/1/05, Khemmanivanh, Somckit <somckit.khemmanivanh_at_weyerhaeuser.com> wrote:
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>
> Let's say we already have Service Guard in house. For new
> implementations should we go with MCSG or look at RAC? RAC is an HA and
> scalability solution (MCSG is purely HA). I'm trying to get a good
>

RAC might be many things, but HA is not one of them.

The disk subsystem is a single point of failure: you only have one database.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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