Ray, Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Clusters) is or was
(depending on your perspective) Oracle Parallel Server.
Compaq is working with Oracle to pre-install and ship
Oracle9i on there NT boxes (not sure about TRU64 or
OpenVMS platforms), so you just turn it on and it works.
Oracle9i replication is another animal all together.
There are some major changes to way you can replicate in
9i.
Scott
>
>
> I have heard from iouga attendees that there was is something
> called "Rack" from oracle/compaq on the horizon with 9i which
> is the next replication solution. Can folks comment on this?
> What is the architecture and how does this play with oracle?
> Is this just an OPS on some alphastation? Our compaq sales
> droid didn't know the answer. Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:07:10PM -0800, Fernando Papa wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I have some questions about parallel server. Now we have only one instance
> > "stand-alone" (no parallel), but we are thinking to switch to parallel
> > server because we have a couple of sparc 3500 and nobody are using it, and
> > we think it's good for increase our processing power.
> >
> > The problem is I didn't work with parallel server and I have a lot of
> > questions about it:
> >
> > 1) Is mandatory to use raw devices for control files, redo logs & data
> > files?
> > 2) How we transfer our cooked data files to raw devices data files?
> > import/export? or exist another better (fast) method?
> > 3) If I start with only one node, performance will be the same of one single
> > instance (no parallel)?
> > 4) Somebody know how to work with raw devices under solaris? any link? I try
> > to found someting in metalink but there's no samples...
> > 5) What about backup? I can't put tablespaces in backup mode and copy with
> > cp... maybe it's time to use rman?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --
> > Fernando O. Papa
> > DBA
> > El Sitio - Infraestructura
> > (54-11) 4339-3854
> >
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