Re: Oracle RAC for scalability or High Availability only

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:21:54 -0800
Message-ID: <1141334508.551195@jetspin.drizzle.com>

Noons wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
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>>RAC is not about dual power supplies and such. It is about low cost
>>hardware. If something goes wrong you want the server to fall over.

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> Bingo.
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>>A typical 2 CPU node for a RAC cluster is less than $5000 USD. If you

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> Beg yours? We get ours for <$1000.... ;)

Tell us all!

I get dual proc HP boxes such as DL360s with 15K internal drives for about $3K.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Thu Mar 02 2006 - 15:21:54 CST