Re: MC/Serviceguard vs Sun Clusters

I'm amazed that failover doesn't seem to be any more robust or reliable than the first time I worked with it 8 years ago, on some platforms anyway.

Jared

On Thursday 07 February 2002 08:55, Dejam, Ruth wrote:
> I'll second this. I worked with Sun a few years ago at another place.
> Here, we're an HP shop with 2 OPS clusters (2 node and 4 node).
> We finally moved our straggler Compaq cluster to HP a couple of months ago.
>
> I'll caveat by saying that we do have a couple of well seasoned SAs and
> DBAs so it's all been pretty easy to setup and we've found it to be very
> reliable.
>
> hth,
> ~Ruth
>
> Beware of the lollipop of mediocrity.
> One lick and you'll suck forever.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gene Sais [SMTP:Gsais_at_co.palm-beach.fl.us]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:18 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: MC/Serviceguard vs Sun Clusters
> >
> > Stay with HP Serviceguard! From experience, I rank HA solutions in this
> > order:
> >
> > 1. HP serviceguard - easy and it works.
> > 2. IBM HACMP - do it the way IBM wants it and it works.
> > 3. Sun Cluster - get a high paid consultant to set it up and have them
> > come back to change it :) Better yet, go with Veritas Trusted Cluster.
> >
> > Just my $.02. I know some Sun ppl on this list will disagree, but if
> > they worked in a HP env maybe not :)
> >
> > Gene
> >
> > >>> rama_at_toyota.com 02/06/02 08:23PM >>>
> >
> > Hi...
> > I am looking for inputs from anybody who has experience in both
> > MC/Serviceguard (MC/S) as well as Sun cluster implementation. If a DBA/SA
> > team has lots of experience in implementing MC/Serviceguard clusters on
> > HP and trying to move to SunClusters for HA solution ...
> >
> > a) What are the common things between MC/S and and Sun clusters (ex:
> > about 5
> > minute fail-over time, fixed IP address, 2 or more nodes in a cluster,
> > disk
> > sharing etc..)
> >
> > b) Any differences between these... What are the things to watch out for
> > (assuming the team already knows in and out of MC/Serviceguard)
> >
> > Thank you in advance...
> > Rama
> >
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