Re: Oracle Hot Standby and Veritas Database Edition H/A

From: Kenneth C Stahl <BlueSax_at_Unforgetable.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 07:44:26 -0500
Message-ID: <388D9AAA.21D5D521@Unforgetable.com>

Ray Velez wrote:
>
> Veritas Database Edition H/A for Oracle for Sun E4500s includes File
> System, Volume Manager, CVS, and CVS Agent for Oracle.
> This will enable file system management with increased performance.
> This product also seems to provide the ability for hot and cold backups.
>
> If I use the the above product, it doesn't seem as though the Oracle
> Hot Standby feature is necessary to provide a hot backup server. Is
> this true? Are both products needed to provide a hot backup server?
> Thanks.
>

Is the "hot standby" feature you mention something that is inherent to Oracle on Sun or is it an add on. I have been tasked with coming up with a fail-over scheme for two Sun boxes in a cluster configuration to minimize down time, but basically it appears that there are few people who have ever dealt with this successfully.

I'm basically interested in either an automatic switchover to s atandby instance or to a scheme which will start an instance that access shadowed database files/redo logs (I realize that the control files would have to be different). Received on Tue Jan 25 2000 - 06:44:26 CST