Re: 2xSMP vs RAC for failover - was Re: informix market share

Serge Rielau wrote: > Duly noted. Thoughts for the road: If you use a 2 node cluster and one > goes down you're dead unless you kept load very low when the RAC system > is up. That is the 2 node RAC cluster competes with a 2x4 SMP box which > of course will price hardware wise the same (minus the 2 switches + > disk). You did not price out the equivalent dataguard solution, btw. > > Cheers and bye > Serge And Obnoxio's objection duly noted here so one closing thought and I too end the thread. That quick comment being that you just build in one extra node so if one burns itself to the ground ... you still have what you need. And given the low cost of an extra node (a few thousands dollars): Who cares. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)