Re: AIX or W2k3 to run Cluster?

> That's because automatic update was activated. Of course, any good
> Windows sysadmin would disable this (and lots of other unneeded
> services) on a production server. But i'm sure a Windows 2003 server
> can be a HA server (even clustered) - as long as it's not installed by
> some clicks on Next Next Finish. It just needs to be configured well
> like any other operating system.
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> Matthias
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Am I correct in assuming that if I use RAC on W2K3 I wouldn't need Windows Cluster Service?

$$ are not the primary issue in the solution although ease of management and HA are. The windows engineers in the shop want W2k3 and the Unix engineers want unix (AIX is our only choice because of a contract we have with IBM).

I'm ready to do extra research to come to a decision.

So far I'm evaluating:

SAN vs NAS
Fibre Channel vs iSCSI
9i vs 10g
Ability to support multi-location clustering CPU Overhead per user and query (RAM is just to cheap to concider)

Anyone point me in the the direction of a whitepaper? I'm off to go google myself.

PSRMC Received on Thu Jul 21 2005 - 15:52:18 CDT