RE: Oracle Fail Safe and MS Cluster Server solutions

From: Rahul <rahul_at_ratelindo.co.id>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:53:36 +0700
Message-Id: <10616.116684@fatcity.com>

List,=20
After searching /re-searching we have decided on "fail safe" (NT = cluster)=20
for high availability for our db. It seems that OFS offers this = solutions
using easy to implement tools and does not cost much in terms of = hardware.

Two nodes will take care of the instance failure and datafiles on = external
RAID
storage will take care of any media failure.=20

One mismatch i found in the metalink docs. is when they mention about = the
"load sharing"
between nodes !! how can there be load sharing when the "MS cluster = server"
allows
ONLY "share nothing" model ???

Rahul

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> From: Boivin, Patrice J[SMTP:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
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> Subject: Oracle Fail Safe and MS Cluster Server solutions

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> Has anyone tried this?

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> Oracle says:

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> "Oracle Fail safe is software that makes it easy to deploy highly
> available
> solutions on Microsoft Windows NT clusters. Oracle Fail Safe 2.1.3. =
(and
> earlier releases) help you to configure highly available =
single-instance
> (Oracle7 and Oracle8) databases. [...]

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> Oracle says for now this setup is limited to a 2-node cluster.
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> Again I am left with the question: With only one copy of datafiles =
in one
> place, isn't that a point of vulnerability? Are RAID solutions =
reliable
> enough to trust for systems that have to be up 24x7?

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> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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