Re: Oracle RAC for scalability or High Availability only

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 14 Feb 2006 17:23:15 -0800
Message-ID: <1139966595.490735.254470@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

dananrg_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Oracle's marketing literature pitches RAC clusters as a way to scale.
> Someone I know who uses RAC claims it is a product for High
> Availability only, and never for scalability; that the scalability
> thing is mostly marketing bluster from Oracle. My acquaintance
> recommended that we size our server properly for the application at
> hand rather than use RAC unless High Availability was a requirement (it
> isn't).
>
> For people here who use RAC, do you find RAC is valuable for
> scalability or that, like my acquaintance said, it is chiefly an HA
> product?

We do run RAC here for HA purposes.

But Joel's comments are right on target. Look up that paper he noted.

Lots more caveats this year at Open World about "if your application is RAC scalable". It's not quite the marketing debacle the Oracle Parallel Server was ... Received on Tue Feb 14 2006 - 19:23:15 CST