danielrulez@gmail.com wrote:
> After something like 3 years of working with HACMP we've come to the
> inavoidable conclusion that HACMP sucks. It's way too fragile for a
> product that's supposed to provide you high avaliability.
>
> Which other cluster products are there that are more reliable than
> hacmp ?
> I've heard of System Automation as an alternative, any comments about
> that?

Fragile? Look into Veritas or Sun Cluster and you'll run
back to HACMP in terms of being NOT fragile! E.g. it takes
HACMP a rather long time to start switching nodes. Personally
i found this a good feature, since HACMP can survive short
outages without getting into a failover/fallback frenzy
like other cluster products.
Maybe you could be a bit more specific about what bothers
you with HACMP. There's always the possibility that a cluster
isn't the right thing for what you're trying to achieve.

Regards,

Frank