RAC - how long is a piece of string

[drewibbo]

g'day folks,

No experience with RAC but have been asked to estimate how long it would
take to set up a RAC environment of 2 nodes with 2 databases. Is it
hours,days or weeks? I appreciate there will much tuning over a period of
time so ignore that in the response.

How does RAC handle Application Server (again no experience with the
product).

The plan is to migrate a Forms 4.5 on Oracle 8.0.5 environment into current
technology with failover capabilities.

Cheers.....Drew

[Connor McDonald]

drewibbo wrote:

>
> g'day folks,
>
> No experience with RAC but have been asked to estimate how long it would
> take to set up a RAC environment of 2 nodes with 2 databases. Is it
> hours,days or weeks? I appreciate there will much tuning over a period of
> time so ignore that in the response.
>
> How does RAC handle Application Server (again no experience with the
> product).
>
> The plan is to migrate a Forms 4.5 on Oracle 8.0.5 environment into current
> technology with failover capabilities.
>
> Cheers.....Drew

I would define what you need from resilience etc and then see if RAC is
what you really need. For example, a standard non-rac cluster might
failover and be up and running within a couple of minutes. If thats
acceptable, then its a LOT cheaper than forking out cash for RAC
licenses.

hth
connor
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