Li Li,
In current versions, JUST RAC alone can not provide the 24x7 availability. You need to have the combination of RAC+Dataguard (logical) to have REAL 24x7 availability. Also not all patches/upgrades are 'rolling upgrade' capable.
Have a look at this presentation to undertand the issues in rolling upgrade.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/pdf/oow06/S281209_To.pdf
-Gopal
On 9/10/07, Li Li <litanli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I recently patched our 2-node RAC (10.2.0.2 on RHEL AS 4 update 4) to
> 10.2.0.3. I got the impression that you can do rolling upgrade in a RAC
> environment, until I dig into the patch installation document and found out
> that you can do rolling upgrade on the clusterware part but not on the RAC
> database part. Fortunately we can afford the service to be down for a couple
> of hours.
>
> My question is: is there a way to keep your RAC database up while you patch
> it? RAC itself doesn't really provide 24x7 High Availability? Any comments?
>
> Thanks,
> -Li
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Author: Oracle Database 10g RAC Handbook, Oracle Press 2006
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007146509X/
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