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Re: RAC alternatives: do you have suggestions? (HELP!)

From: Dusan Bolek <pagesflames_at_usa.net>
Date: 14 Mar 2004 07:54:56 -0800
Message-ID: <1e8276d6.0403140754.a13053c@posting.google.com>


FM <fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com> wrote in message news:<40516806.2080902_at_mycontinent.com>...
> Hi,
> after two years working with RAC (on linux) on a critical production
> system the management decided to dismantle it due to too many downtimes,
> bugs, crashes, hangs...
>
> Lately we experienced too much in a too short time.
> Now I'm looking for stable and really unbreakable HA alternatives
> (active-passive clusters?).
>
> The selected platforms are:
>
> AIX + hacmp + oracle9i
> SOLARIS + veritas + oracle9i
>
> I'm open to alternatives but what I wish more are critics at those two
> architectures. Which dangers? Have you experienced problems? Every
> opinion is welcome.

I can compare mentioned options, because just now we're moving from one to the other. From our experiences SOLARIS + veritas + oracle9i is much more advanced than AIX + hacmp + oracle9i. Especially if we're talking about an automation of a whole disaster recovery process.

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Dusan Bolek
Received on Sun Mar 14 2004 - 09:54:56 CST

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