Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sjc1.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Veritas Cluster vs Oracle RAC for HA Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:40:14 -0700 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1092022859.252995@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2004080800262375249%rbrown@doittnycgov> In-Reply-To: <2004080800262375249%rbrown@doittnycgov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27 Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:227836 X-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:39:58 MST (news.easynews.com) Rodrick Brown wrote: > 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 Veritas ... no load balancing Veritas ... no failover Veritas ... limit of 8 nodes Veritas costs money not required when you use 10g RAC -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)