Re: RAC Vs Standby Database between Primary and Secondary Data Centers

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:58:46 -0800
Message-ID: <bf46380801211458iab822f0oe31127e9dc60842e@mail.gmail.com>


On Jan 21, 2008 9:53 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris_at_dannorris.com> wrote:

> Dick,
>
> Here's where I think we need to make clear what defines "high
> availability" versus what becomes "disaster recovery". Many sites want/need
> both. In my dictionary, I define high availability as a system that can
> tolerate a failure of a single component without affecting the application
> availability.
>

The problem I have with that definition is the the HW duplicated is not the HW most prone to failure - the storage.

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