Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-11!sn-xit-05!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle RAC without clustering Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:44:54 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1128923094.336989@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1128882611.724380.181730@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1128899193.231986.291340@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1128899193.231986.291340@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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: 25 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:253077 hpuxrac wrote: > stilllearning wrote: > >>We have two independent Sparc/Solaris systems sharing Sun's disk >>arrays. Both systems are on the same sub-net and have a separate high >>speed Ethernet connection between them. Is it possible to configure an >>active-active, HA, redundant, Oracle RAC on these systems without using >>Suncluster or other non-builtin clustering software? If no, what would >>be the minimum additional software/configuration required? If Oracle >>built-in software can be used, what component will be required at the >>very least? > > > Oracle CRS ( cluster ready services ) software with 10g can provide the > node with clustering services to run ran. Indeed with 10g you cannot > avoid CRS if you want to run RAC. > > With 9i you would need sun clusterware. Shouldn't that be Veritas? -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)