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Re: Veritas Cluster vs Oracle RAC for HA

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:14:36 -0400
Message-ID: <pan.2004.08.09.04.14.36.87143@sbcglobal.net>


On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:32:10 -0700, Prem K Mehrotra wrote:

> As for as I know VCS Setup provides only HA but no load balancing,
> i.e., in a 2 node VCS, only one node will be used for database access.
> In case, there is problem with that node, VCS clustering will switch
> to other node (HA) within a short period of time.

If only one node is used for database accesses, how can you have RAC? RAC is a group of equivalent instances which perform database access simultaneously. We hold this truths to be self-evident, that all instances within RAC are created equal.

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