RE: Standard Edition RAC - CPU core limit?

Thank you very much for all the responses. Some of the applications we have doesn't really have the budget to purchase EE RAC, however SE-RAC will give us the flexibility to handle things more available during the normal business hours.

-Upendra

> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:45:01 +0300
> Subject: Re: Standard Edition RAC - CPU core limit?
> From: gints.plivna_at_gmail.com
> To: zhuchao_at_gmail.com
> CC: nupendra_at_hotmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>
> Yes, we have.
> OK to be more precise we have created projects and apps (as we are a
> software company) and customer uses this configuration. As our
> customers mostly are our local organizations and also governmental
> organizations they have quite strict requirements for uptime for
> business hours, but actually at nights almost nobody works with these
> apps. Also data volumes are not thaaaat big, i.e. in magnitudes of
> (tens or hundreds) GB, not TB. So night windows are enough in case of
> necessity. And the main factor here is price - if you compare
> - 70K for 4 proc (say 4 cores) SE (RAC included) with
> - 4 proc * 4 cores * 0.5 (let's say the average factor) * 47 500 =
> 380K EE (without RAC) and
> - the same math for EE RAC 4 * 4 * 0.5 * 23 000 = 184 K EE RAC
>
> So 70K vs 564K $. OK there are discounts and probably they can use
> less cores but the difference is too big. Most of the time both
> customer and we can agree that we'd rather improve functionality of
> our app than spend half a million for licences :)
>
> Gints Plivna
> http://www.gplivna.eu
>
> 2011/4/4 Zhu,Chao <zhuchao_at_gmail.com>:
> > If i remember correctly, standard edition has severe limitation like no
> > online index creation, such kind of very basic requirement;
> > So if a system needs RAC kind of avalibility, wondering how can it fit into
> > standard edition? anyone has such kind of standard edition rac running?
> >
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