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From: bdbafh@gmail.com (Paul Drake)
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Subject: Re: Veritas Cluster vs Oracle RAC for HA
Date: 8 Aug 2004 13:35:01 -0700
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Rodrick Brown <rbrown[@]doitt.nyc.gov> wrote in message news:<2004080800262375249%rbrown@doittnycgov>...
> I'm looking into building a new 9i RAC cluster mostly for HA reasons 
> and the flexibiltiy that RAC offers instead of the traditional hot 
> standby setup I've been doing for years with Veritas Cluster anyone 
> have good or bad feed backs when comparing the two ?
> 
> 4 Node RAC Cluster vs 2 Node VCS Setup
> 
> The setup would be something like
> 
> 4 - Sun Fire 280R - Oracle 9i RAC
> vs
> 2 - Sun Fire V880 - VCS Cluster

I'd suggest that you join NYOUG and attend the meetings.
The next meeting is on 21-Sept, pre-registration required:

http://www.nyoug.org/events.htm
http://www.oracle.com/global/northamerica/MetroUserGroupDay_Sept21.html

This session may be of particular interest to you:

Database High Availability Technologies
Sudheer Marisetti - Abacus Concepts

In general, if you are just getting started, you may want to develop
on 10g, instead of 9.2. That's where the bugfixes go.

Back to your original post,
It would seem to me that the RAC solution and VCS cluster solve
different problems: multiple active nodes, vs. active / passive nodes.

check out the new 10g book on Dataguard by Oracle Press, or the free
docs at otn.

-bdbafh