Re: Multiple DATABASES on the same RAC cluster

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

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> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > time finding out a good answer to relay to them. They want to
> know wether
> > > or not they can implement two or more RAC clustered databases on
> the same
> > > hardware running at the same time.
> >
> > Yes they can. Is it a good idea to do so? Doubt it.
> >
>
> One possible scenario where this might be sensible.
> You have two applications, which are not RAC-compliant -
> i.e. no chance of two-node RAC scaling at all.
>
> For resilience purposes, you set up application A
> with node1 its active node and node2 its passive node;
> then set up application B so that node 2 is its active
> node and node1 its passive node.
>
> Each application is (close to) running on a dedicated
> server system, but with a failover position where both
> applications will be running on one server.

Brilliant.

I have a possible use for this coming up on a project next month. Client is just waiting for some new AIX boxes to arrive and this would be perfect.

Thanks.

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