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Re: Fail Safe Installation Question

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 21 Oct 2004 15:57:01 -0700
Message-ID: <91884734.0410211457.3654831b@posting.google.com>


Hans Forbrich <news.hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:<WRSdd.23668$_u6.20089_at_edtnps89>...
> John Hurley wrote:
>
> >> I'm not totally clear about the Fail Safe Installation instructions.
> >
> > What's Fail Safe an anacronym for RAC?
>
> NO. Not RACish at all.
>
> IIRC, it's effectively a fail-over mechanism to run in conjunction with MS
> Cluster Services. Think a layer to coordinate between MSCS and Data Guard.
>
> Last I heard, it was on it's way out around 9.0.1. Therefore I suspect it's
> not available for 9iR2, but I may be wrong.
>
> /Hans

There's a certify entry for it with 9.2 on W2K3. Certification doesn't always imply availability.

jg

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