Re: Fail Safe Installation Question

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:4178230b$0$10348$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> > John Hurley wrote:
> >
> >>> I'm not totally clear about the Fail Safe Installation instructions.
> >>
> >> What's Fail Safe an anacronym for RAC?
> >
> > Absolutely not. RAC is multiple instances capable of working on one
> > database simultaneously. Failsafe is a set of software components which,
> > on detecting that an instance or node has crashed, will automatically
> > start a replacement instance on another node. It is, in short, a
> > single-instance implementation on top of clustered hardware.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
>
> And I meant to add, since it is NOT a real application cluster, it doesn't
> come with real application cluster prices. Meaning that it's not
'inferior'
> to RAC, but merely providing relatively high availability at relatively
low
> cost. It is therefore a perfectly good product in its own right.
>
> Regards
> HJR
So Failsafe is for Windows what HACMP is for AIX ?

Matthias Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 17:13:29 CDT