One correction, Oracle RAC is not by definition HA. It can be set up that way, but isn't necessarily HA. On Jan 16, 2008 2:17 PM, Pedro Espinoza <raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1. there are various kind of clusters: single system image clusters > (oracle rac falls under this category); high performance cluster > (oracle claims rac is high performance);load-balancing cluster (oracle > rac does this); high availability clusters (rac is ha as well). > > 2. some one has to manage services (say, cluster file system, nfs, > oracle instance, interface, disks, sendmail, dns, etc). There is a way > to manage syslog across all nodes: here comes evmd of tru64 cluster or > of oracle rac. > > 3. If you want to manage only oracle rac instances, yes, you have no > choice but to deploy oracle clusterware. If your organization has > already deployed clusters supporting non-oracle related services, then > go with a clusterware that is certified to be compatible with oracle > clusterware. > > > > > > Does anybody know what the thrid party cluseterware > > from Veritas SUN and IBM HACMP over and above what has > > already been offered by Oracle for free. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'