Re: Advantage of ThirdParty Cluster over Oracle Supplied Free one

  • From: "Andrew Kerber" <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:24:09 -0600

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.
> >
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