Re: RAC alternatives: do you have suggestions? (HELP!)

FM wrote:

> Hi,
> after two years working with RAC (on linux) on a critical production
> system the management decided to dismantle it due to too many downtimes,
> bugs, crashes, hangs...
>
> Lately we experienced too much in a too short time.
> Now I'm looking for stable and really unbreakable HA alternatives
> (active-passive clusters?).
>
> The selected platforms are:
>
> AIX + hacmp + oracle9i
> SOLARIS + veritas + oracle9i
>
> I'm open to alternatives but what I wish more are critics at those two
> architectures. Which dangers? Have you experienced problems? Every
> opinion is welcome.
>
> Thank you for any kind of help.

Most of the time ... the problem isn't RAC it is the code being run on it. What version of Oracle, what Linux, and what was the app?

Thanks.

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