Re: Oracle 9i RAC vs Hardware clustering (like HACMP)

From: Access <idmwarpzone_NOSPAM__at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:44:28 +0200
Message-ID: <417400fd$0$15737$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

"Praveen" <narrapraveen_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:868a4e1a.0410180732.1bdd0341_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> We are exploring the options of high availability. Harware clustering
> seems to be the first choice and using Oracle RAC on a hardware
> cluster would further enhance availability. But could anyone let me
> know the advantages of using Oracle RAC instead of plain hardware
> clustering such as HACMP.
>
> Thanks,
> Praveen

With RAC, you can have nearly 100% availability and you can do load-balancing, better scalability etc. But it's more difficult and expensive to setup than HACMP.

Matthias Received on Mon Oct 18 2004 - 12:44:28 CDT