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OPS (and 9i's equivalent - RAC) need a clustering infrastructure. Either
Sun Clusters or VCS are required for your environment.
Is there a reason for staying with 8i? If you want a clustered Oracle environment, you really need to go to 9i. Here are some of the reasons:
/Hans
"Q. Wade Billings" wrote:
> We need to implement a HA solution for our production database. I have
> done my homework and narrowed down to Oracle 8i on Sun hardware and
> Solaris 2.8(currently what we are running in production) with OPS. My
> question is:
>
> Does OPS supply all of the required services/software to create a
> "clustered" or HA environment? I do not see any mention of having to
> have something like Sun Cluster or VCS loaded on the nodes, but I need
> to make sure for my proposal.
>
> Any help in appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Q. Wade Billings
Received on Tue Apr 29 2003 - 14:16:31 CDT