compelling arguments for a ThirdParty Cluster

Hi

After googling i came across this where the author provides compelling arguments to use a third part cluster

www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/solaris_cluster.pdf

regards
Hrishy

P.S:Sorry i changed the subject line hoping that it would catch more eyes apologies if i violated the posting guidelines
--- Pedro Espinoza <raindoctor_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. there are various kind of clusters: single system
> image clusters
> (oracle rac falls under this category); high
> performance cluster
> (oracle claims rac is high
> performance);load-balancing cluster (oracle
> rac does this); high availability clusters (rac is
> ha as well).
>
> 2. some one has to manage services (say, cluster
> file system, nfs,
> oracle instance, interface, disks, sendmail, dns,
> etc). There is a way
> to manage syslog across all nodes: here comes evmd
> of tru64 cluster or
> of oracle rac.
>
> 3. If you want to manage only oracle rac instances,
> yes, you have no
> choice but to deploy oracle clusterware. If your
> organization has
> already deployed clusters supporting non-oracle
> related services, then
> go with a clusterware that is certified to be
> compatible with oracle
> clusterware.
>
>
> >
> > Does anybody know what the thrid party
> cluseterware
> > from Veritas SUN and IBM HACMP over and above what
> has
> > already been offered by Oracle for free.
> >
>

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