Well RAC is not the SAN right? RAC is HA for the Oracle Instance. If you're saying the total HA solution involves eliminating all SPOFs, I'd agree but cost is always a limiting factor in that regard... Thanks! ________________________________ From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:04 PM To: Khemmanivanh, Somckit Cc: Vlado Barun; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle RAC cost justification? On 6/1/05, Khemmanivanh, Somckit <somckit.khemmanivanh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Let's say we already have Service Guard in house. For new implementations should we go with MCSG or look at RAC? RAC is an HA and scalability solution (MCSG is purely HA). I'm trying to get a good RAC might be many things, but HA is not one of them. The disk subsystem is a single point of failure: you only have one database. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l