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Re: 'Wide Area' RAC nodes

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:43:11 -0700
Message-ID: <1182872591.513766.281820@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com>


On Jun 26, 10:40 am, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 10:21 am, Richard <postmas..._at_127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
> > I'm searching for opinions on disaster proofing options in Oracle,
> > particularly those involving wide separation of server nodes, in
> > different data centres.
>
> > I know this can be done using replication and DataGuard but I wondered
> > about RAC. There are a couple 'wide area' clustering products
> > available, notably OpenVMS and some third party applications for
> > Linux. They appear to allow 'shared nothing' clusters to be created
> > where individual nodes are not connected to a shared disk array, as is
> > usual with RAC.
>
> > Is anybody aware of these products being used to create 'wide area'
> > RAC clusters? If so I'd be interested to hear opinions.
>
> RAC requires shared disk. Doesn't work with it.

Man not my best day. "Doesn't work without it" sorry. Received on Tue Jun 26 2007 - 10:43:11 CDT

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