RAC Vs OPS

[Rambo_1]

Hi,
I don't know what difference betweet RAC and OPS ? anyone cound explain for me?

Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

RAC is simply the newer name for essentially the same product; much like OmniBack and DataProtector.

[melvyn burnard]

OPS or Oracle Parallel Server is what Oracle used to cal it, but they renamed it Oracle Real Application Cluster, or RAC.
Just basically a name change.

[sysadm_1]

Real Aplication Cluster is the new name of Oracle Parallel Server.
OPS was used with oracle 8i and RAC is being used with oracle 9i and later products.


-sysadm-

[Jeff Crew]

RAC (Real Application Cluster) is an Oracle technology that enables both high availability (failover and maintenance) and a means of multi-threading computing power. OPS is similiar to RAC but differs in how RAC brings together the computing power of multiple servers.(go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html )

What Clay might have been refering to in the area of backups is Oracle's tool call RMAN.

[Jeff Crew]

There was also a question thread on the database channel.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1017961

[sathish kannan]

Hi Rambo,

OPS and RAC or the same.

http://www.orafaq.com/faq/what_is_rac_ops

Visit above link for more details.

In Oracle 8i and below, RAC was called Parallel Server (OPS). Oracle rebranded it RAC when they releaed Oracle 9i.

Regards
Sathish