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Re: Any downtime with OPS or Sun Cluster HA Oracle

From: Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:08:46 -0700
Message-ID: <3BE30B5E.69943576@indra.com>


Christian Svensson wrote:
>
> Greetings all !
>
> If you want maximum availability (no downtime at all) and you want no
> impact for the users who are connected to the database, which solution
> should you run in a Sun Solaris environment:
>
> - Oracle Parallel Server (I think you have to install the cluster
> part)
> - Sun Cluster HA Oracle
>
> From what I have read, if you run "Sun Cluster HA Oracle", and a node
> fails you will have a downtime for approx 60-90 sec (until the backup
> node recovers from the failed node). Does the user have to reconnect
> by the way ?

Hopefully the failover time is that quick. I have seen longer. Yes the users will have to reconnect. Also, I don't think Oracle supports Sun HA clustering anymore (I could be wrong on this one).
>
> But if you run OPS and a node fails the other nodes recovers from the
> failed node and the users keep on as nothing have happened. Or am I
> way off ?
>
> Thanks for any comments on this.
>
> Regards
>
> /Christian Svensson

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-- 
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Fri Nov 02 2001 - 15:08:46 CST

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