Re: Oracle database HA on VMWare without using RAC

In discussions with Oracle about a licensing check for our proposed DR solution years ago, we were emphatically informed that the Oracle software binaries must be licensed on all servers. When I explained that the DR piece in question was not the same architecture and that it would be impossible to run AIX binaries on storage that could only be mounted to x86-64, we were told that it didn't matter and it must be licensed. We ended up excluding the binaries and making the software installation part of the DR, which affected RTO targets, of course.

YMMV Rich

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:41 AM Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I set up a usable HA cluster using Oracle standard edition corosync,
> pacemaker, and drdb. Note that this was primarily an experiment and I
> never tried it under any kind of load. DRBD is a piece of software that
> duplicates block by block from source to target. The entire point was to
> reduce oracle licensing costs, so the oracle software is dismounted unless
> it needs to be running.
>
>
> https://dbakerber.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/oracle-cluster-with-drbd-pacemaker-and-corosync/
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