Re: options for standby database
From: David Fitzjarrell <oratune_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1400617594.18646.YahooMailNeo_at_web124702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
This sounds like a case for Golden Gate as it can perform cross-endian replication: Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate It does require licensing but it may be a way to replicate your production database without moving it to Linux. Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate A comparison between Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate View on www.oracle.com Preview by Yahoo � � David Fitzjarrell Principal author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide" On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:14 PM, Maureen English <maureen.english_at_alaska.edu> wrote: Hi, We currently have our main production database running on HP-UX with a standby database, also HP-UX, at our DR site. It's possible that we will lose funding for the DR site at some point in the next few years, so management is looking into Amazon Web Services - Cloud Computing Services to host our DR servers.� From what I understand, AWS Cloud is Linux only. Since Oracle doesn't yet support HP-UX primary/Linux standby, I think that our only option is to move our production database to Linux.� Is that true, or can anyone think of some other option?� Or, is it possible that Oracle might support HP-UX primary/Linux standby in the near future? Or, is HP-UX primary/Linux standby not likely possible any time soon because HP-UX is big-endian and x86-64 is little-endian? - Maureen -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1400617594.18646.YahooMailNeo_at_web124702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
This sounds like a case for Golden Gate as it can perform cross-endian replication: Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate It does require licensing but it may be a way to replicate your production database without moving it to Linux. Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate A comparison between Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate View on www.oracle.com Preview by Yahoo � � David Fitzjarrell Principal author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide" On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:14 PM, Maureen English <maureen.english_at_alaska.edu> wrote: Hi, We currently have our main production database running on HP-UX with a standby database, also HP-UX, at our DR site. It's possible that we will lose funding for the DR site at some point in the next few years, so management is looking into Amazon Web Services - Cloud Computing Services to host our DR servers.� From what I understand, AWS Cloud is Linux only. Since Oracle doesn't yet support HP-UX primary/Linux standby, I think that our only option is to move our production database to Linux.� Is that true, or can anyone think of some other option?� Or, is it possible that Oracle might support HP-UX primary/Linux standby in the near future? Or, is HP-UX primary/Linux standby not likely possible any time soon because HP-UX is big-endian and x86-64 is little-endian? - Maureen -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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