Re: Recommendation for "cheap" HA solution

Do you have Oracle Enterprise or Standard?

If Enterprise, you are licensed for Oracle's Adv. Replication feature. You may want to consider this as an option since it could provide an HA solution without spending any additional $$$ except for duplicating your current db server. You don't need clustering software here, just a good DBA and a good test environment. Once you get it working, your fail over time is less than a hardware clustered solution.

If you go with one of the two clustering software choices - Sun Cluster or Veritas, I personally prefer VCS. I think it's easier.

Much luck.

Kathy

> Hi!
>
> We are looking into establishing some sort of high
> availability solution here. We are running 9.2.0 on Sun
> Fire 280 (2 processors). Since we are on a tight budget,
> we are looking into various solutions for HA.
>
> One option would be to use Sun Cluster Server or Veritas
> Cluster Server. If one box fails, the db just fails over
> to the other node. The problem is that we don't have a
> cluster guy here...
> The other Option would be to use RAC, but this is the most
> expensive solution, I guess...
>
> Does anybody use any other HA solution that is affordable?
> Failover time should be less than 15 minutes, although
> "frequent" outages (i.e. once a month or so) are
> tolerable.
> Don't blame me for these requirements; it was not my
> idea...
> This is 9.2.0 on Sun Solaris.
Received on Thu Jul 24 2003 - 09:25:45 CDT