RE: High Availability -- True 7x24x365

From: Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20050707150034.36197.qmail@web31010.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Acutally, we are at more than 96% up time. It is that final 4% that is driving management crazy!

Since RAC requires a reboot sooner, or later, for upgrades, pateches, etc. it does not completely meet the requirements unless we do some sort of distributed thing with two mirrored RAC environments.

This has been suggested and no one flinched at the proposed cost. Go figure.

"Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet_at_vicr.com> wrote:

> Pete,
>
> We're close to your wants, mainly by accident. We
> purchased
> reliable servers (HP 9000) and good disk subsystems
> (EMC Symmetric), a
> good battery backup UPS with a fast start generator.
> With that we've
> got 90% uptime with no unscheduled down time.
> Scheduled downtime is
> still a need. We're looking into RAC with 10g to
> give us the remaining
> 10% but I'm skeptical.
>
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> Peter Barnett
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 9:35 AM
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> Subject: High Availability -- True 7x24x365
>
> We have finally moved into the modern digital world.
>
> Outages of our company web site are being noticed by
> our customers which is causing management to ask
> about
> maintaining 7x24x365 up time.
>
> There are several ideas being circulated but I was
> wondering how others are doing it?
>
> The requirement is true 7x24x365. Patches,
> upgrades,
> maintenance need to be transparent to the users of
> our
> web sites.
>
>
>
>
>
> Pete Barnett
> Lead Database Administrator
> The Regence Group
> pnbarne_at_regence.com
>
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Pete Barnett
Lead Database Administrator
The Regence Group
pnbarne_at_regence.com

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Received on Thu Jul 07 2005 - 11:05:28 CDT