Fail Safe Installation Question

From: Gerold Krommer <g.krommer_at_doremove.fns.co.at>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:05:31 +0200
Message-ID: <1098349090.504300@newsmaster-03.atnet.at>

Hi all,

I'm not totally clear about the Fail Safe Installation instructions.

The manual seems to recommend that the Oracle Software should be installed twice (local to each node of a 2 node cluster) , with the database being on a shared disk.
While this is the MS way of doing it, it is not the way I'm used to it on U*Xes, where the software is also on a shared disk.

Therefore all maintenance work has to be done twice (e.g. applying patches, upgrading the software-not the database,etc.).

Is my reading of the recommendation correct and will the Oracle Installer recognize the fact that e.g. a patch has to be applied to another node and do it? I believe SQL Server SP installation does it.

Just checking,

/gerold Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 04:05:31 CDT