Load balancing in Active-Passive architecture

1) Is it possible to have load balancing in Active-Passive architecture?
2) Pros & cons of RAC and Vertias cluster
Cheers,
Ashok Kumar C.

Note:183408.1
Note:259301.1
Please see the above notes for anwers. Hope it helps.
Though Oracle says that it does not need third party cluster software for RAC installation (Note:259301.1)
, my experience on AIX was different, without HACMP in place we could not install Oracle CRS.
On windows and Linux you do not need third party cluster software (Note:183408.1) ) and I did not need to use any third party cluster software on Linux platform.

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