Re: HA without a cluster

From: Brian Peasland <oracle_dba_at_nospam.peasland.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 20:41:22 -0600
Message-ID: <102gh6hel9q2gc0@corp.supernews.com>

I guess it all depends on what you mean by "some level of HA". Have you looked at Standby databases? Does that fit your bill?

Cheers,
Brian

"dba" <teehan_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f9a2fc58.0402090203.6de946_at_posting.google.com...
> I have to deploy a new system that has some level of HA (not even
> three nines though) - on Sun, and I dont want all the complications
> and expense of sun cluster. I would like two low end dual CPU sun
> boxes, each attached to an small external storage array (50GB?), one
> running apps, one running Oracle, and the ability to mount the
> respective filesystems to either node in the event of a hardware
> failure. Should be simple - its HA for cheap. I dont have money for
> SAN/NAS hardware.
> NFS mounting will probably be too slow, so does that mean I need a
> dual-attach array? If so is it as simple as connecting both servers,
> and managing which node is mounting which filesystems?
>
> Anyone made a cheapie cluster?
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 20:41:22 CST