RE: best hot standby solution

EMC provides a solution: SRDF (I forget what the initials stand for). Other disk providers have high availability solutions too. Remotely mirrored disk farms.

Check MetaLink for papers by Lawrence To. He's done an enormous amount of work on backup/recovery/high availability.

Rachel

>From: "Tim Sawmiller" <sawmillert_at_state.mi.us>
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>Subject: RE: best hot standby solution
>Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:14:45 -0800
>
>I heard about one company that is implementing mirrored disk farms, with
>the disk farms at least 50 miles apart...
>
> >>> nancy.mccormick_at_sbti.com 08/24/00 04:47PM >>>
>So what are some solutions for when the disk/database fails? I understand
>Replication and have been introduced to Oracle's Standby Database. And I
>am
>sure there are other possibilities. I would be interested in hearing what
>have some of you implemented.
>
>Nancy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Carmichael
>Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:30 AM
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>
>
>well, that's not really a hot standby database, as defined by Oracle. If
>the
>disks fail, you are still SOL.
>
>
> >From: "Tim Sawmiller" <sawmillert_at_state.mi.us>
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> >Subject: Re: best hot standby solution
> >Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 04:47:31 -0800
> >
> >How about a nice EMC disk farm, and two servers, each with an instance
> >running against your database (Parallel Server). Using OAS as the front
> >end (preferably on a smaller third server), when one server fails, OAS
>can
> >switch the connections over to ther other server.
> >
> > >>> rahul_at_ratelindo.co.id 08/24/00 04:06AM >>>
> >List,
> >
> >which is the best "HOT standby" solution for an 24x7 database ?,
> >able to "switch" to the standby DB, in shortest possible time.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Rahul
> >
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