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On 13 May 2004 13:28:57 -0700, mexilent_at_hushmail.com (robert lojek)
wrote:
>We're trying to load balance thin-client JDBC connections to oracle 9i
>RAC nodes. The main objective is actually redundancy, i.e., if there's
>an abnormal termination of a connection due to RAC node failure and
>the load balancer detects this (within x seconds), send the retried
>connection to a different RAC node.
>
>Does anyone have experience with hardware loadbalancers tackling this
>kind of scenario, or know of a good resource to investigate this
>further? We're going to be doing some experimenting with Cisco
>LocalDirectors, and I'll report whatever we find, but I wanted to know
>if anyone else has experience dealing with this kind of issue & how
>you addressed it.
>
>Best,
>
>Robert Lojek
Oracle Net comes with Transparent Application Failover and Load balancing, suitable for RAC. Exactly what you need! Please read those manuals prior to resorting to your own 'solution' (which won't be supported by Oracle)
-- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBAReceived on Thu May 13 2004 - 17:27:40 CDT