Re: RAC h/w basic costs
- From: Pradeep Chetal <chetal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mccmx@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:39:10 -0400
Also, how many folks see this 'scale out' in terms of improved performance
on the application? RAC will scale out on resources, but what about perf
improvement. I agree with other points.
-- Pradeep
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Matt McClernon <mccmx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> RAC will significantly increase the cost and complexity of the database
> architecture. So you have to ask yourself what 'problem' are you trying to
> solve by implementing RAC. For me the key issues that RAC addresses are:
>
> 1. Allows you to 'scale out' database resources - so you can start small
> and grow outwards by adding nodes
> 2. Eliminates (reduces) application downtime in the event of a server
> failure
> 3. Allows you to run your database on more hardware resources than are
> available on one large SMP server
>
> If you don't have 1 or more of those requirements then why invest in a
> premium product which will require a large investment in time and money..?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:17:40 -0700
> Subject: Re: RAC h/w basic costs
> From: venkat001p@xxxxxxxxx
> To: pioro1@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
> Yeah, i have gone through it before. They already have some RAC licenses
> and want to make use of them.
>
> Cheers/Aditya
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Marcin Przepiorowski <pioro1@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Venkat P <venkat001p@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > We are planning to move to RAC from single node database, as a start we
> want
> > to migrate to 2 node RAC and ASM. Management asked us to present basic
>
>
> Hi Venkat,
>
> Maybe this is a little bit off topic but do you have any reasons why
> you want to migrate into RAC ?
> Is it a vendor requirement or strategic decision ?
>
> There was a very interesting discussion on oracle-l about reasons to
> not use RAC.
>
>
> //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Documentation-for-reasons-to-NOT-use-RAC
>
> regards,
> Marcin
>
> --
> Marcin Przepiorowski
> http://oracleprof.blogspot.com
>
>
>
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