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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> [oracle-l] is this a failover - or ....
we have - amongst others - 2 sun fire v240, each has fibre channel =
adapters and is connected to a storage system. a storage system is a =
system, that makes the connected machine(s) - if correctly configured - =
believe, that there is one ( or more ) additional scsi drive(s), that can =
be treated like physically built in device(s). in this document i'll call =
it vdisk (like HP does).
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(in case you all know it: forgiveness for beeing smart allecky)=20
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tricky: both of the 2 sun-v-240 can mount both devices, so - in a = completely stupid and unusable case - both machines have both devices = mounted in rw. never considered this as a seriously working configuration. = *BUT* if one sun-v-240 is down, the other one can mount it in rw and use = it. this is a working - and not stupid - situation. (admitted: the = sun-v-240 is not likely to be down, but just for the sake of this now let = us assume) =20
consider the scenario described the paragraph before. and now consider = there is an (identical) oracle installation on both machines, correctly = designed (pathes, sysmlinks...), so that both machines can - mutually = exclusively - mount the device and start the oracle machine (instance) and = mount and open ... the database(s). it works. listeners can be configured. = works too.=20
can this be considered a failover scenario???=20 did I possibly overlook some nasty detail???
any input appreciated. (... even rebukes)
assumed: the storage area network (2TB) never really fails - raid 5, .... = and so forth.
kr MR
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