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Originally Posted by kingston
Hi TBOne
Thanks for your quick reply. Customer is expecting High Availability for their application and Database.
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Again, that is a broad term. Go back and re-read ALL of the points asked before. Things like failover time, acceptable downtime per SLA, etc. You also have to take into account the dependencies of things...if the application depends on the database, you need to make sure BOTH fail over, and in that order.
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Customer don't have much experience on Linux and Unix and hence asked me to come with the proposal. As i am looking this as an opportunity/challenge to improve myself, wanted to give the best solution to my customer. I tried my best but failed to turn as an solution architect in overnight. Hence decided to take help from gurus like you.
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How did you 'fail'?? What did you do/suggest, before posting here? And if they don't have experience in Unix/Linux, why would they buy such a large amount of Unix/Linux hardware/software, and who maintained/installed it before you got involved???
Again, there is NO WAY anyone here can answer the question without a LOT of research/questions. And if we're going to do the consulting job for you, you need to post this into the LQ Job Marketplace, and tell us how much you're willing to pay.
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I don't want to mislead the customer but wanted to give a simple yet best solution to them. But as i am not getting much details on the license part, i have put this question on our forum.
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And you're not going to get details on the license part in forums. You need to
CALL THE VENDORS, that is Oracle and Red Hat, and
ASK THEM. Each customer can have different license terms.
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Note: I will never use the term "Linux Specialist" (at least for some time) as i couldn't success in this matter.
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What terms you use are up to you...but if you've taken a job you can't do, you should be honest with your client. If you've got an RHCE, you should already have knowledge about how systems interact, and be able to perform basic research on your own. Asking about how to configure a two-node cluster and licensing terms doesn't show that effort.