Re: Using Orcale Parallel Server to archieve nearly zero down time

I have heard a report recently that Sun will only run Oracle Parallel Server correctly if the drives are Sun's own.

I am still looking into it, but this may be why you have been told that your set-up won't work the way you want it to.

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Jonathan Lewis
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Jason Wong wrote in message <7ucv4m$el47_at_imsp212.netvigator.com>...
>I am currently looking for a high availability database solution for one of
>system. In my mind, I am planning to implement SUN Enterprise 4000 as the
>Servers, Oracle8i Parallel Server as the database engine, Veritas Cluster
>Server as the cluster manager and Clariion 5700 dual process RAID as the
>data storage.
>
>I want to have two instances of Oracle8i, that share the same database,
>running in 2 separate servers actively. So, when one of them shut down, the
>other can take up the task immediately. I expect the down time to be less
>than 1 minute. However, some vendor told me that even with Oracle Parallel
>Server, two instances of Oracle8i that share the same database cannot be
>running actively at the same time. This is true because at any one time the
>Cluster Server will allow only one server to mount on the disk volume.
Hence
>only one Oracle8i instance can access the database. When the primary
>Oracle8i is down, the secondary has to take 15 to 20 minute to initiate the
>database.
>
>Is this true? Has anybody tried a similar setup? Please give me some advise
>and tips.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>JasonWong
>
>
>
Received on Sun Oct 17 1999 - 15:52:07 CDT