Re: diffrent O/S between failover server

t-ngo_at_ti.com wrote:
> Thank you very much for your responses to my question. It seems that I
> am not clear of what I was trying to say or maybe something else. For
> the sake of learning purposes, let me try again:
>
> Our database's control files, redo logs, data files are all in NFS
> mounted file system. We want to create a standby server for this
> database ( I said 'standby server'). When primary server is crashed for
> any reason ( OS issues ....) we will mount all database's filesystems
> to standby server and startup database. Do I make myself clear now?
> We know that both servers should have the same level of O/S and Oracle
> version. I just want to see if anyone has ever setup the standby
> server with different OS version so I can learn something. I appreciate
> any constructive input, but not much for anything else....
>
> junior oracle dba

Note that you said "junior." That we why we are trying to understand precisely what it is you are doing ... you are still unclear.

My interpretation is that you think if the Oracle server hosting the instance crashes you are going to umount the NFS mounted file system containing the Oracle files and remount it on a second server. Is that correct?

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