mikerault_at_earthlink.net (Mike Ault) wrote in message news:<37fab3ab.0307280426.57af69a5_at_posting.google.com>...
> "Morfeo Quesoverde" <oratune_at_msn.com> wrote in message news:<3f16c994_at_shknews01>...
> > Orbitz
> > "Keith" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:vhce9p127qe3c1_at_news.supernews.com...
> > Attached is the site message saying it is down due to the Oracle problem
> > mentioned in CNet. Anyone have detailed info on this?
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> > I'm wondering WHERE, in this message, it says anything about Oracle being
> > the cause of this outage ... I can't see it anywhere.
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> > David Fitzjarrell
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> The most current data points to NIC problems...probably using BCM5700
> drivers...they have a rep for causing hangs in combination with other
> components on the motherborads...all sorts of posts about it on the
> DELL site and other locations...but I'll bet we don't see a retraction
> from Orbitz...
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> Mike
How would moving off of RAC solve a NIC issue? Did it have to do
with the private interconnect? My experience with Oracle (excluding
RAC) is that it is rock solid. With RAC on Sun there are at least
three different vendors providing critical pieces to make it work
(Sun, Veritas, Oracle). This causes confusion and finger pointing.
The underlying components including cvm, dlm, and the cluster frame
work along with RAC are far from an easily supportable environment.
When problems happen it is difficult to get to the support people that
have the in depth knowledge to help solve the problem. Oracle could
probably make RAC a better product if they did support the whole
package say on a Linux platform, but I don't know how many people
would go for that.
Another problem with RAC is that the database is a single point of
failure. So, to get around that you have to have N*2 nodes for
redundancy.
It's my feeling that Oracle in a fail-over cluster or no cluster at
all with data propagation is a much more supportable, and reliable
environment. I wonder if that is the what the support staff from
Orbitz was thinking?
Received on Mon Jul 28 2003 - 22:23:49 CDT
