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Mike wrote:
> Just had a salesman tell me that the problem with RAC not scaling
> above eight nodes was a problem with 9i and is now fixed in 10g.
> He also said that there is a 120 Oracle RAC cluster running
> [somewhere] in Japan.
>
> Does anyone know if this has been fixed? We're (the company) is
> considering Oracle for a ~1TB database.
>
> Mike
The number of nodes in Japan is 128 not 120. And the problem of being limited to 8 nodes is operating system specific. So I suspect your 9i installation is on Solaris using Sun Cluster and Veritas.
And the limitation of 8 nodes was not an Oracle limitation ... it was, or is, a Veritas limitation.
Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 20:37:20 CDT