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-08!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 22:45:54 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1128923154.643008@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> <1128896824.437872@yasure> <1128902357.220511.242040@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1128902357.220511.242040@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: 17 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:253078 stilllearning wrote: > I am gradually navigating through Oracle documentation. My knowledge of > RAC is poor, though I have used clusters and Oracle before. > > I mentioned sub-nets in case someone has ideas about virtual IPs, > network hearbeats and such. Isn't a high speed interconnect required > for data cache syncing? For the mem-interconnect Gig either is fine except in the most extreme situations where you might wish to look at InfiniBand. VIP's are required for 10g RAC: Not 9i. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)