Re: Oracle RAC and cold node

From: bernard (bernard_at_bosvark.com) <bernard_at_bosvark.com>
Date: 8 May 2007 03:05:18 -0700
Message-ID: <1178618718.278878.279490@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>

On May 8, 7:46 am, Robert Jaroszuk <z..._at_iq.no.spam.please.pl> wrote:

> Is it possible to configure RAC to use so called 'cold node' ?
> node3 is not online for all the time, it is something like 'hot spare'
> in RAID1.
>
> How about Oracle licensing of node3 ?

Why would you want to do that? Is that not defeating one of the many purposes of RAC? Use all the hardware so that none of them just sit still and waste floorspace? Anyway I think there might be a reason for such a configuration, just curious as to what that reason is.

Licensing, well that change quite frequently (in the UK that is), I think they will license that the same way as a standby database. That is: you intend to use it, even in a disaster that might never happen, well pay for it then.

Regards
Bernard Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 05:05:18 CDT