Virtual RAC on Solaris E15k

  • From: Mark Moynahan <Mark.Moynahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:37:57 -0700

Management has come to our team and asked about putting a 9i RAC on a single
e15K. We completed their request by building a two node cluster on a single
e15k. The problem is that management thinks this will buy them redundancy.
When management was asked 'How would RAC on e15k provide redundancy if the
e15k goes down?' their rebuttal was 'The e15k rarely ever goes down and
there needs to be db redundancy in relation to the e15k hardware.' This
doesn't make sense to me. Why bother with virtual RAC when there is still a
single point of failure? The added complexity of RAC doesn't provide any
real benefits. Can anyone argue in favor of putting virtual RAC on an e15k?
Wouldn't a logical standby be a better option? 

Thanks,

Mark
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