RAC is the successor to OPS so you are correct in saying that OPS in
unavailable in 9i.
Interestingly there is a performance article on otn referring to the
performance group at Oracle visiting an unnamed customer who were loking at
buying a 64cpu system to handle their load and after performance tuning only
actually required 16.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Juha Laiho" <Juha.Laiho_at_iki.fi> wrote in message
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> dillon_at_SpamMinuSaccessdenied.darktech.org said:
> >This sure does answer some of my questions, but actually, what I'm
> >trying here is to get 'more processing power' to run Oracle by
> >clustering linux servers. That means the servers will combine their
> >resources to make oracle run faster and handle more load.
>
> Then you're after Oracle Parallel Server (but I'm not certain if that
> option is valid for Oracle 9i any more), or Oracle RAC (Real Application
> Clusters).
>
> If I recall correctly, the RAC option is only available for Oracle
> Enterprise Edition databases (more expensive than std.ed.), and with
> RAC you need a license for each CPU in your cluster (per-user licensing
> also available), and additionally you of course need to license the RAC
> add-on product.
>
> For accurate details, see the Pricing&Licensing section on www.oracle.com;
> also see the "Software Investment Guide" in that section; it's a nice
> "picture book" about different licensing scenarios.
> --
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