Re: To ODA or Not?

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:59:04 -0500

The Oracle SID is the same on both servers in all the RAC One Node
installations I have done.  The database storage is shared, and if the
instance on node 1 goes down, it comes  up on node 2.  With the same name.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> RAC One Node is not free. Nor does it have anything to do with
> Clusterware. Nor does it have anything to do with MySQL. Nor is the
> ORACLE_SID the same on all cluster nodes. I think you may be confused by
> what RAC One Node is.
>
> RAC One Node allows a connection failover between two or more active
> instances (temporarily) exactly the same as RAC. There is no way to achieve
> this with active-passive clustering. A database is one of RAC, RAC One Node
> or Single Instance. They are all mutually exclusive.
>
> Seth Miller
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Mladen Gogala <
> dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 03/28/2015 01:52 AM, MARK BRINSMEAD wrote:
>>
>>> When did RAC One Node become "free"?  Its been a while, but the last
>>> time I checked, it cost something like $5500 ($11,000?) per processor.  It
>>> certainly wasn't "free".  (Although that doesn't mean it isn't now, I
>>> guess.  I have not looked at a pr
>>>
>> Hi Mark,
>> Clusterware is free. You can install clusterware without paying and use
>> it to fail-over MySQL service. Oracle licenses are not free.
>>
>>
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>> Mladen Gogala
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>>
>


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