Re: Hot-Stdby-DB vs. Parallel-Server

Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
>One of the main features of Oracle Parallel Server, is that there are two
>servers serving the same disks.
>Hence the servers need to be in the same computer room.
>A client may not want that for obvious reasons (if there is a fire in the
>computer room, both servers will burn down)
>So, there are cases where Hot Standby is the best you can do.

Fibre attached storage can give you a couple of kilometres between servers (in theory, never seen it implemented myself).

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