Veritas / Firstwatch & Oracle - high availability?

I am new to the Sys Admin role and to Veritas's Firstwatch. But is there anyone out there currently setting up or supporting High Availability systems on the Sun Enterprise boxes?

I have a two Sun 5500's w/D1000's & A1000's... heartbeats between the two boxes.

My main or current concern is setting up Oracle in this configuration. Do I install Oracle on the D1000's or the A1000 arrays?

I don't want to setup Oracle on both machines ... and maybe it's because I don't understand how Firstwatch can manage the Oracle controlfiles, etc... in case of a failure.

The other thing in the mix here... one of the two Sun 5500's is going to be a DSS/reporting instance and the other box an OLTP system. We need to be able to have either system fail over.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Mike O.
Lucent Technologies
ora7dba_at_yahoo.com

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