RE: Oracle Standard Edition & RAC

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"From: Mark Brinsmead [mailto:pythianbrinsmead_at_gmail.com]
2-node clusters under certain configurations (not sure whether OCS/ASM is one of them) can be subject to severe stability issues, as failure of one node can result in "split-brain" conditions that cause failure of the entire cluster.
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I suppose you refer to the failure of the interconnect? But in two nodes RAC, you still have the primary so the voting will occurs.

I can't see a specific reason for a split brain linked to the condition of a RAC being only of two nodes.

I always thought that split brain is only linked to the usage of an extended (storage) RAC.  

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Standard Edition RAC can be useful, I am sure. And I have little doubt that somebody is using it. Somewhere. But I would think that an application that genuinely requires the "high availability" offered by RAC while simultaneously living comfortably within the limits of a 4 CPU cluster would be a very rare combination.
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Well, I can give a good and common example of a standard usage of this combination: the back end of an Oracle Portal DB.

Don't need much sophistication, just have the DB available to serve the portal which is itself duplicated. Many are just windows dual xeon cpu boxes.  

I am quite confident that Oracle will adapt the policy of SE RAC to the new wave of dual/quad core CPU or SE RAC will be limited to one box which means no RAC. SE RAC exists to occupy the low end market and prevent customer that use apps like Oracle portal to switch to web M$ while introducing the RAC technology in house so that people my one day expand its usage to EE and offer their cash to Larry Hat.      

Bernard Polarski

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