Access wrote:
> "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
More expensive? Please explain. That has certainly not been my
experience.
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Received on Mon Oct 18 2004 - 23:16:00 CDT
