Re: Oracle 9i RAC

From: Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com>
Date: 28 Aug 2002 11:19:34 -0700
Message-ID: <akj47m0dod@drn.newsguy.com>

In article <pan.2002.08.28.11.07.28.301.14437_at_scutty.co.uk>, "Scutty" says...
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>Hi guys,
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>Just wondeign if anyone out there is using Oracle 9iRAC?
>If you are what platform are you running and is it working ok?
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>Only asking as we are mid-roll out on with a 9iRAC/Alpha tru-cluster
>system and its been... interesting!
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>Cheers
>Andy

TruCluster is my personal favorite for RAC (NOT an Oracle recommendation by the way!) because of the CFS. And after all, Digital/Compaq/HP/whoever the next buyer is have been in clustering forever.

If your clusterware is set up correctly, it is REALLY simple to get this installed and working. At one client that had the cluster set up 100% correctly (this is really an OS issue, not an Oracle one), I installed RAC, built a database, migrated a portion of their Production system, tested TAF and load-balancing and did quite a bit of knowledge transfer in 4 days flat, including one day lost because of a glitch with a patch. Ttrue to all DBA norms, I was of course installing the patch without backing up the kernel due to time constraints - oops!

HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.

Pete

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