Re: Oracle Clustering: RAC vs FailSafe

"Charles M. Goehring" <cgoehrin_at_san.rr.com> wrote in message news:q8qedv03em6hrnq4igdjraks0hvgo9134p_at_4ax.com...
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> We are covered by a site license for 9i and RAC and will be running on
> Windows 2000 Advanced Sever. Hardware is Dell with a Dell SCSI RAID
> box. The system includes Apache Web Server and Apache Tomcat.
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> Deciding on RAC vs FailSafe and have several unanswered questions:
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> Can both be operated without having to use Archive Log mode? I
> thought FailSafe was based on using this, but now I'm not sure.
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> Is RAC Guard a separate product or is it included with RAC? I
> can't find it listed as a separate product on the Oracle Web site.
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> Help is greatly appreciated
> Chuck

The way I interpret the documentation -
DataGuard, I believe, is included w/9i, and uses Archive logs to 'replicate' your database.
RAC sits on top of your OS clustering,so you need clustering to utilize RAC. RAC also uses DataGuard. Received on Fri May 30 2003 - 08:06:25 CDT