Re: clean up ocr?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:27:45 -0700
Message-ID: <1182958065.220705@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

herta wrote:

> On Jun 27, 5:29 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>> 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
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
> 
> I'm not adding a standby to "the" cluster.  I'm creating a new cluster
> at the DR site with a  standby databases for each of our primary
> production databases.

This makes sense ... and, I hope you can see, does not correspond with what you originally described.

Now could you please reask your original question with a correct description.

-- 
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 Wed Jun 27 2007 - 10:27:45 CDT