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Thank you I find your responses so useful. This is what i plan to do
but not sure what the best approach I should take in order to make
them work nsyn. So please recommend!
I want to set up two identical Win2K servers, each with two mirrored
drives to install OS and application. One will be primary server and
second one is backup/standby(whatever the term it mean) server incase
the first primary server goes down. They both will connect to 5 disk
drives RAID-5 storage system where the production Oracle 8i database
resides. My questions are
Thanks
Thao
Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message news:<afdidu0ohb_at_drn.newsguy.com>...
> In article <1b9e9988.0206261404.4b4aee64_at_posting.google.com>,
> thuthaot_at_hotmail.com says...
> >
> >Pete Sharman <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
> >news:<afcvee02cid_at_drn.newsguy.com>...
> >> In article <1b9e9988.0206260809.4efe5df4_at_posting.google.com>,
> >> thuthaot_at_hotmail.com says...
> >> >
> >> >I am looking to have my 8i oracle server run on NT to two compaq Win2K
> >> >servers that will back-up for each other. I dont' know waht method I
> >> >use use and what are the advantages/disadvantages?
> >> >
> >> >1. Clustering server or server-mirroring?
> >> >2. what tools do I need?
> >> >3. Does Oracle 8i support clustering?
> >> >4. Any suggestions on using Oracle on Win2K clustering on Fault
> >> >Tolerance Features?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for any of your feedbacks
> >> >thao
> >>
> >> Need to know more before we can give firm suggestions:
> >>
> >> 1. Are the two boxes clustered or not?
> > I want to have them clustered but not sure if it is supported by
> >Oracle 8i which we are using
>
> Clustering is an OS thing. If the OS supports clustering of the two boxes, then
> Oracle can run in a clustered configuration.
> >
> >>2. What are you trying to protect against (machine failure, disaster recovery,
> >> etc.)?
> > Yes, extra redundancy
>
> Still doesn't tell me what form of redundancy. Machine failure and disaster
> recovery are two completely different requirements. You can't use a single
> cluster to provide both.
> >
> >>3. Do you want the second box to be used in an active-active configuration, or
> >> is active-standby what you're looking at?
> > What are the differences? I guess I may want active-active
> >config. How do I do that? and what tools do I need?
>
> Active-active means users are connected to the database from both nodes of the
> cluster. In Oracle terms, that requires OPS in 8i, or RAC in 9i.
> Active-standby means only one node of the cluster is used for active database
> connections. The second node will be failed over to if there are problems with
> the first one. This is what Oracle FailSafe does in Oracle terms.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Depending on the answers to the above, start investigating Parallel Server (RAC
> >> would be a better option if you can upgrade to 9i) or Oracle FailSafe (NOT
> >> Oracle Parallel FailSafe which is a different beastie).
> > I will.
> >
> >Thanks
> >thao
>
> HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
>
> Pete
>
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