Re: Re Oracle Licensing

Your primary is on x86 and your failover host is on POWER? Aren't they different endianness?

Does that work?

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:30 PM Rich J <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com> wrote:

> On 2018/11/13 21:56, post.ethan_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> I recall the guidelines here also. I knew of a customer who kept the
> oracle home tar gzd (nothing installed). Backups shipped over the wire
> slowly to DR DC once per week. Archive logs shipped every 20 minutes. All
> rsync. Worked very well. Was simple and reliable. We would test the system
> twice a year and DB would only be running for a couple hours. Per the
> customer's understanding this was all 100% legit and within bounds.
>
> I had argued that since our DR site is only storage until we fail over
> that the binaries are not -- *CANNOT* -- be "installed". Oracle
> respectfully disagreed, saying the binaries are in the DR site, even though
> the architecture of the DR replicating servers (x86) does not match the
> architecture of the binaries (POWER) and therefore cannot be "installed".
>
> Instead of bringing legal into it, we exclude replication of the
> binaries. The Oracle installation is part of our DR failover process, with
> all of the implied complexities.
>
> My $.02,
> Rich
>

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