Re: SRDF and Oracle Rac 11gR2

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:08:06 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJvnOJaBvMhUi2dGN=KTzWxxOL5id91FzsgWRXLw9HFqY+R_VQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Yes, that makes sense. I've been looking at the EMC web site, and haven't really found anything definitive one way or another. It really sounds kind of tricky from what you are describing though, not sure I see a real advantage over dataguard at that point.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Matthew Zito <matt_at_crackpotideas.com>wrote:

> It's been a while since I looked at a customer configuration for SRDF with
> RAC, but if I remember correctly, the way to do it is to mirror just your
> ASM diskgroups for your databases, and leave your quorum and voting devices
> unmirrored. Then you create separate clusters with the same databases with
> the same disk names on either side of the replicated environment and go
> from there.
>
> The reason you don't just mirror everything is that IP addresses and host
> names get stored in the OCR, so you won't be able to bring up your far side
> servers unless their hostnames and IP addresses match (which is often
> unrealistic in DR scenarios).
>
> Does that make sense? Like I said, I haven't seen this hands-on in a
> while, a relic of my increasingly distant days of actually touching things.
> :)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Has anyone used EMC's SRDF with Oracle RAC 11gR2? Any issues? Does it
>> work with RAC?
>>
>> --
>> Andrew W. Kerber
>>
>> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
>>
>
>

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