There's a really useful compatibility matrix in http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/clustering/overview/scan-129069.pdf(page 12) . Failover and load balancing is another kettle of fish altogether and definitely does require working with your development groups. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Stojan Veselinovski < stojan.veselinovski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Freek. > > The client version hadn't crossed my mind. I guess I'm looking for > reasons to not go down this road and make sure everyone upgrades, changes > config and uses scan. > > Regards, > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Freek D'Hooge <freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Stojan, >> >> At first sight I think it will work, but probably you will get some delay >> when the scan is down as your client will retry the connection (failing >> over to oldserver2-vip). >> But keep in mind that you need an 11.2 client / libarary to be able to >> work with scan (and failover correctly), so it could be that you need to >> upgrade the application anyway. >> >> Despite it will probably work, I would advice to change the configuration >> and use the scan directly as these quick fixes like aliases have a bad >> habit of coming back to bite you in the butt. >> >> Kind regards, >> -- >> Freek D'Hooge >> Exitas NV >> Senior Oracle DBA >> email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx >> tel +32(03) 443 12 38 >> http://www.exitas.be >> >> On wo, 2014-04-30 at 15:40 +1000, Stojan Veselinovski wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> We are in the process of looking at migrating some older legacy RAC >> systems to a new 12C GI on Solaris T4. One of the challenges we are facing >> is getting any level of application change including connect strings. >> >> >> >> A proposal we are looking at is to alias the old vips to point to the >> new SCAN. The thinking is all should work ok behind the scenes without much >> change. Haven't really got my head across what happens with failover and >> load balancing or even if its doable. It'll look somethign like this >> >> >> >> oldserver1-vip oldserver2-vip >> >> | | >> >> | | >> >> | | >> >> 12C-RAC-SCAN >> >> >> >> >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Stojan >> >> www.stojanveselinovski.com/blog >> >> www.stojanveselinovski.com >> >> > > > -- > Stojan > www.stojanveselinovski.com/blog > www.stojanveselinovski.com > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info