Re: Veritas Cluster vs Oracle RAC for HA

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:30:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1092033081.278883@yasure>

Mladen Gogala wrote:

> On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:40:14 -0700, Daniel Morgan wrote:
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>>Veritas ... no load balancing
>>Veritas ... no failover

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> What is load balancing supposed to be when talking about file systems?
> How are raw devices doing balancing?
> Failover is, normally, handled by RAC, isn't it? When one node fails,
> the other nodes recover its transactions and deallocate its resources.

ASM but you are correct is isn't present in 9i ... only in 10g.

And yes I was referring to RAC. I work with it just about every day so it tends to be the normal system for me rather than the unusual.

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