On Monday 28 June 2004 18:41, Ann W. Harrison wrote:

Hi,

> Out of curiosity, why are you interested in a clustering
> solution rather than a multi-processor w/ high performance
> disks?

I am not the original poster, but as most of our customers are moving
to/insiding on a clustered environment, I will give their reasons. Those
being failover and load balancing, with performance being lower down the list
(in fact they are happier with a lower performance in exchange for
failover/balancing). A mutilprocessor machine with fast disks only gives you
performance, and not the other two.

When clustering has come up on the lists before, the general responce
(including Jim's) has been "throw more hardware at it", but performance is
generally not the issue looking to be solved when people want a clustering
solution.

Phil
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