Re: 'Wide Area' RAC nodes

Many thanks to all who responded. The information you supplied has been very useful.

For anybody reading the thread who is interested, I found an informative Oracle presentation on extended RAC at

http://www.oracleracsig.org/pls/htmldb/Z?p_url=RAC_SIG.download_my_file?p_file=1000720&p_cat=1000720&p_company=550311706566234

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:21:47 +0100, Richard <postmaster_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.
Received on Tue Jun 26 2007 - 20:20:39 CDT