Thanks Stephano, Sve, I appreciate the insights. I don't think I'll bet my job on this technology. Probably stick with the proven stuff. Dennis On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Svetoslav Gyurov <softice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > Same here, we are using HP ServiceGuard to protect most of our > customers databases, running in Active/Passive clusters. In general > you could have Clusterware (Grid Infrastructure) installed on all the > nodes without additional license as long as you run oracle products on > top or if you bought at least Basic OEL support which allows you to > use Clusterware for 3rd party product. > > Still some software must take care of failing over the database in > case of disaster. If it's not a RAC you could use RAC One Node - no > other option for automatic failover. RAC One Node is great feature and > its great replacement of 3rd party clusters, except one thing - the > license, RAC One Node is an options to the EE and it's only available > to EE. The license states that if you are not failing over to other > nodes in the cluster for a specific amount of time in a calendar year, > you are not obligated to license the rest of the nodes. > > We've had a project where SE had to be run in High Environment on > Windows without any type of cluster software. The only solution I > found and implemented was to install GI on both nodes, install DB > software on both nodes, create database on first node, replicate > configuration to second node and finally run the database itself only > on one of the nodes. The windows service was manual and one had to > make sure it's stopped on other node, before run it on the current > node. There are several papers on the Internet where you could see how > to protect 3rd party products with Clusterware and your custom > scripts. > > Regards, > Sve > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l