Path: news.f.de.plusline.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!out03b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: sybrandb Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle RAC vs VM WARE Date: 11 May 2007 08:24:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <1178897052.960451.294740@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1178896642.302886.192240@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.33.238.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1178897061 31864 127.0.0.1 (11 May 2007 15:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:24:21 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1178896642.302886.192240@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 PXYBEBR003 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.33.238.6; posting-account=d8kqXg0AAADvDUR8IdYEU7pAZnZ1O2PC Xref: news.f.de.plusline.net comp.databases.oracle.server:197817 On May 11, 5:17 pm, "ame...@iwc.net" wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not real familiar with either of the two technologies I am posting > about, but, we are setting up 2 new servers to run 5 database > instances. > > Currently we have 5 older machines, and they are about to go. We are > trying to decide if it would be better to run VM WARE and have 5 > virtual machines between the 2 new machines, with the databases > replicating themselves on the other for failover. > > OR > > Run Oracle RAC. > > >From what I understand, RAC will make better use of resources should > > one instance need it. But I think we're talking about multiple Oracle > Homes on the same box right? > > Can anyone offer some feedback maybe on some of their experiences?? > > Thanks! For once, please do some homework prior to posting For instance http://www.orafaq.com/faq/rac Other than that vmware is to RAC as is apples to pears. They are two completely different concepts. -- Sybrand Bakker Senior Oracle DBA