On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:05:26 +0100, Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Consider another option: Why not run a relatively small single instance > server at the remote site, without RAC and RAC license? You can run > fewer applications on the stanby, but after a real disaster you can > expand the remote system and license it by then, or transfer the > licenses of the lost primary site to the remote site. One of my > customers runs on 4 CPU's (10g NAC, Not A Cluster) on the primary site, > and 1 CPU on the remote site. It is enough to survive the first day, > and if needed extra CPU's will be added to the remote server. We have a similar story, in our case we were able to show that we would only allow a small number of named users to use the system in the event of a disaster, we would obviously consider the transfer option if the disaster were an unrecoverable one (like the main datacentre going up in scope), we therefore licensed on a named user basis. Having a documented DR plan really helped here. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l