Re: Oracle Parallel Server / Other HA Solutions

Mary,

OPS is not an HA solution. While you may still have an instance running if a node goes down, the storage medium is still a single point of failure.

Jared

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Ruiz, Mary A (CAP, CDI) wrote:

> I need a little advice. We have a fairly new (< 1 year) 8.1.5 instance to
> support my company's internet business. We recently changed our network
> solutions provider and now my management wants to achieve a higher level of
> redundancy than it currently does with mirrored disks. The solution being
> proposed by my Sysadmin is an Oracle Parallel Server solution. Some
> background is in order here - we have always shut our databases down at
> night for backups. I am not highly skilled in backup and recovery although
> I tried some of the hot backup techniques from this list and was able to
> recover successfully to another server. I noticed that the course offered
> by Oracle in OPS has backup and recovery as well as performance tuning as
> pre-requisites, which indicates to me that OPS could be extremely
> challenging. Also, I have read mainly unfavorable comments about OPS from
> this list, but most of those comments were based on the Oracle 7
> implementations (High administrative costs, difficult to implement, etc.).
>
> Have things improved with Oracle 8i ? Is OPS worth pursuing? Or should I
> convince my management that extra $$ spent in, say, a hot standby database
> is well worth it? Is there any other solution that would not involve a
> second set of disks, rather a second database on the same set of disks ??
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mary Ruiz / Atlanta
>
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Jared Still
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