Hi After googling i came across this where the author provides compelling arguments to use a third part cluster www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/solaris_cluster.pdf regards Hrishy P.S:Sorry i changed the subject line hoping that it would catch more eyes apologies if i violated the posting guidelines --- 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. > > > __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l