Over the last year my colleagues and I built a new Oracle Cluster using VCS 5.0 MP3. We chose to stick w/ a tried and true technology, though there were some peculiar changes in MP3. We have not used VCS Traffic Director.
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 09:47 -0700, Andrey Dmitriev wrote: > Hardware load balancers do not replace Cluster Ware like VCS. Maybe only in > some sort of application or web sense (that's where a load balancer should've > been used to begin with). > > There used to be a lot of VCS Oracle installations, but seems like Oracle has > been successful in selling RAC. > > For things like NFS clusters, VCS is just too expensive, IMO, and people turn > to other HA solutions, usually free ones, or come up with other solutions. > > -andrey > > -----Original Message----- > From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Scott M > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 11:49 AM > To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-ha] An informal poll - Deployed VCS in the last 12 months? > > Veritas-HA subscribers, > > I noticed traffic on the Veritas-ha maillist has dropped to just about zero > this year. Makes me wonder if anyone out there is still deploying VCS on a > regular basis, or has everyone moved to hardware load balancers? > If you have deployed in new install of VCS (not an upgrade) in the last year, > please let me know. > Was there a specific reason that VCS was used, rather than a hardware load > balancer? Are there installations where VCS is a more appropriate solution > than a hardware load balancer? > You can reply to the list, or to me directly. I'll tally the results and > post a summary in a week or two. I'll keep everyone's inputs anonymous in > the summary. Input from Symantec employees is welcome too. > > Also, has anyone deployed VCS Traffic Director recently? > http://eval.veritas.com/downloads/pro/vcs/vcs_td_datasheet_0802.pdf > > -Scott > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha -- Charles H. Baker, Unix System Administration Windstream Communications charles.ba...@windstream.com | 864.331.7896 | 864.990.1297 Because you are alive, everything is possible. Thich Nhat Hanh _______________________________________________ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-ha
