Re: yipeee!

Serge Rielau wrote:

> Myth. You can have a node in standby. Not sure where the limit of
> clusterware is right now for different platforms. It used to be between
> 4 and 32. So you can give, say, each 7 nodes one standby node. Increases
> your hardware costs by 1/7th. (or 1/16 or 1/32). Add software, disk and
> other goo and that box is negligible in the grand scheme.
> The same, inexpensive boxes argument that works for Oracle RAC works for
> DB2 failover as well.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

I've seen 128 node clusters in Oracle ... but I don't believe there is a hard limit.

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