RE: RAC Vs Standby Database between Primary and Secondary Data Centers
- From: "Goulet, Dick" <richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Vishal Gupta" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dan Norris" <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <mssql_2002@xxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:48:20 -0500
Vishal,
No, he wasn't a VP in IT, but of the bean counter
discipline. Worse kind to have to address technical issues with. BTW:
the sales & marketing and Manufacturing folks did get together shortly
thereafter to quantify what it would cost the company for three
different application systems if their DB's died unexpectedly. The
resulting spreadsheet was a serious eye opener to upper management
(including the subject VP) and we didn't get too much fight out of them
thereafter, though we did maintain a 4 hour MTTR on those systems.
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North America P&C / East Business Unit
Senior Oracle DBA / Hosting
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From: Vishal Gupta [mailto:vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:05 PM
To: Goulet, Dick; Dan Norris; mssql_2002@xxxxxxxxx;
oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: RAC Vs Standby Database between Primary and Secondary Data
Centers
Dick,
If your VP is in IT industry and still says that if disk has not failed
in last 3 years so it won't fail in next 3 year either, then he does not
deserve to be VP.
One thing to remember is, if there is something which can go wrong, then
it will go wrong for certain at point in time. You just have to make
people aware of that failure and consequences. If they are willing to
take risk associated with it, then there is no problem in having a
single instance database either. If unplanned downtime is not
acceptable, then business needs to pay for that availability.
Vishal
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