herta wrote:
> On Jun 26, 5:18 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>> herta wrote:
>>> You can run standby databases in a cluster, as is explained in both
>>> the document I already referred to and in the OracleŽ Data Guard
>>> Concepts and Administration manual
>> That you can, at least in theory, may not be debatable but what is the
>> point?
>>
>> What is the purpose you expect this standby to serve if it is co-located
>> with your cluster?
>>
>> What is the business case?
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
>
> Ah, just saw what causes the confusion: I don't intend to co-locate
> the standby databases with the cluster running the primary databases.
> The standby databases will run in their proper cluster environment, of
> course.
Again ... why. This makes no sense to me. If you have RAC in your data
center you've eliminated the server as a single point of failure. So
what is gained by adding a standby to the cluster other than complexity?
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Tue Jun 26 2007 - 22:29:38 CDT
