Re: HA & Failover options

DA Morgan wrote:
> debuzna_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> > RAC and Data Guard may fit the bill. But like Orbitz and others have
> > found out, RAC (and disk mirroring solutions) do you no good when you
> > loose access to your disks or have corruption.
>
> I'm not jumping to Oracle's defense here but pointing to Orbitz as a RAC
> issue is far from the mark.
>
> Orbitz problem could have been solved by any competent DBA in 60 seconds
> or less. The corruption was not what brought Orbitz to its knees ... it
> was the company's own DBAs.
>
> With respect to losing disk access ... a properly configured system,
> with redundant paths to redundant storage arrays would render this a
> highly unlikely scenario unless the entire data center was destroyed.

And that (for the benefit of those who don't know) is what using Dataguard (or a standby db in general) to a remote site is for.

jg

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