Re: Any downtime with OPS or Sun Cluster HA Oracle

Oracle stills supports this it is a Sun Solution.

It works pretty well when configured correctly.

HTH
Frank

Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com> wrote in message news:3BE30B5E.69943576_at_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
> Comments above...
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> Ron Reidy
> Oracle DBA
> Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Fri Nov 02 2001 - 15:10:37 CST