Re: 10g RAC and SRDF

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:14:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1159388082.487397@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

hpuxrac wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:

>> I'd recommend not trying to layer one failover solution on top of
>> another. What is it you think you will get from HACMP you won't get
>> from RAC and Data Guard?
>>
>> The entire point of RAC is low-cost commodity hardware. Not the most
>> expensive solution IBM has to offer. If you can consider a failure
>> that would cause you to want to mirror the Oracle binaries ... why
>> would you care? Let the node crash and burn. That's the whole point of
>> the technology.

>
> The OP noted SRDF. That's EMC technology not IBM not that you may know
> the difference.
>
> It's often typical with SRDF and disaster recovery techniques to mirror
> volumes.
>
> The OP is not talking about concerns with individual nodes crashing and
> burning. Get with the program.

The OP also wrote:
"I am currently building a 10.2 RAC cluster on AIX (OS: 5.3 HACMP:5.2)."

But I guess acknowledging that, which is what I was responding to specifically, wouldn't allow you to vent your angst.

Send up a couple of pieces of broken glass and I'll walk on them if it will make you feel better and allow you to move on.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group

Received on Wed Sep 27 2006 - 15:14:42 CDT