Re: Any-one know how to eliminate PLANNED downtime with Oracle RAC?

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:55:59 -0700
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Keith,

You might want to look into Oracle Rdb on HP OpenVMS.  Rdb on OpenVMS does have some instances of clustered databases that have been up and running continuously since the early 1990s, through all software and hardware upgrades.  Since HP owns OpenVMS and Oracle owns Rdb, this might be a feasible combination for your customer to meet their goals?  There is an email list-server available and Oracle seems to also have some conduits to the Rdb engineering group mentioned on their Rdb home page.

The cross-fertilization between Oracle's flagship RDBMS product and the Rdb product seems to have benefited both products (i.e. partitioning introduced in Oracle8, etc), but proven 24x7 uptime through all planned and unplanned outages does not seem to have made the jump yet to either RAC or Data Guard.  My opinion of course -- I'd love to be corrected.

Please share what you find?

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Fahrenfort, Keith (HP Shared Solutions Architect for Oracle) wrote:

Hi, I'm working with a customer running a critical web site on a 10gR2 RAC backend DB - they support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections at the "quietest" time. 

 

They have expressed a desire for NO downtime during ANY changes to Oracle, particularly the application of Oracle patches and Oracle upgrades (both minor and major), etc. 

 

Any thoughts? Who's "been there done that"?

 

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