>The last time this topic came up on c.d.o.s., someone from >Oracle kind of, somewhat, acknowledged that the licensing >language is confusing. you thaink that is confusing, try deciphering Oracle's term "clusterware"...put on your magic decoder ring :-) PS. I know the definition... but it does confuse a lot of people...nearly as bad as to think that anything running on a cluster that doesn't come on an Oracle CD is somehow 3rd-party clusterware... PPS. sorry for changing the topic mid thread Kevin Closson Chief Architect, Database Solutions PolyServe www.polyserve.com > >Read the OP's question -- it specifically mentions VCS. I >believe the problem is that many people have not had the >experience of running Oracle under a Veritas Cluster Server >(VCS) or HP-UX Service Guard type of cluster, so when they >read Oracle's terminology, it doesn't completely register -- >they see "standby" and they (incorrectly) think "Data Guard". > >In fact, under VCS or Service Guard, there really isn't such a >thing as a "primary" node and a "standby/failover" node -- any >service/group can normally run on any node, although there is >often a default node to start-up on. An administrative choice >at a given site may be to always run all services/groups on a >particular node, but it is not in any way the same thing as a >"primary" and "standby" in the database sense, nor is it >inherent in the VCS or HP/UX Service Guard model. > >-- >Mark Bole >http://www.bincomputing.com > >Carel-Jan Engel wrote: >> Hi Kevin, and all other posters of this thread, >> >> There are a lot of rumours around this, as you can see: you get many >> different answers. >> >> First of all, let's fix the confusion about cluster based and >> replication/recovery based 'standby systems'. Data Guard and >> active/passive standby (Poor Mens Rac) are different items. >> >[...] > > > > >-- >//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l