Re: 9i RAC question

In article <MPG.1750305cb186bc32989696_at_proxy.news.easynews.com>, Swany says...
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>Is real application clusters built into the enterprise database and just
>needs to be licensed, or is there seperate media to install it from?
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>Is there an OTN download to test because if there is, I can't find it.
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>If it is built in, how do I activate it? I imagine it should say "with
>real application clusters option" or something similiar in the banner.
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>I'd like to test it out on some extra boxes we have lying around to see
>how well it really fails over and what kind of performance to expect.

RAC is an add on option to Enterprise Edition. You need to license EE and then add RAC on top of it. As far as the install goes, the installation is dependent on the platform I think. I've only installed it on Unix boxes, so I could be wrong on this but I believe there is some pre-install work to be done on Windoze. If you have a clustered environment, the installation automatically picks that up and asks which nodes you want to install on (apart from the node the installation is being run from - that is automatically selected).

I haven't tried the download from OTN, so I can't swear to what's in it. However, we don't usually mongrelize the downloads that are available there so it's probably included in the EE download. Again, I could be wrong.

First thing I would suspect from what you've said above though is that you need a bit more understanding of what it's used for. There's no mention of clusters in your posting, so the first thing to be aware of is that RAC is designed to run on a cluster - no cluster, no RAC (obviously a simplification, since you can run it without a cluster for testing purposes, but why would you want to do that?) If you need more info on what's needed, feel free to send me an email directly or just post back here if you want to.

HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.

Pete

SELECT standard_disclaimer, witty_remark FROM company_requirements; Received on Sat May 18 2002 - 12:59:26 CDT