thank you for feedback - I just developped/configured it from the scratch = as I didn't know of any existing systems.=20 <ggg> as regards to thriftyness we are a bank <ggg> kr MR >>> cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx 01/27/04 20:44 PM >>> Markus, You described an almost perfect failover, and far cheaper than RAC. Actually, we set this up years ath the datacenter of a local government.=20= They had many applications, and appr. 18 oracle instances running. Two HP servers, one storage. Half of the databases mounted form one = server,=20 the other half from the other. In case of a failure, all non-critical = apps=20 were stopped, and the critical ones were started from the remaining = server. I know of a dutch bank, that is setting up their HA systems in the way = you=20 describe, thus saving from the horrendous costs of RAC. When you don't = need=20 the scalability, and can afford a few minutes downtime, your're safe. = They=20 call it PM/RAC, Poor Man's RAC. As a bank, they're always short of = money,=20 that's why. :-) There is at least one Single Point of Failure remaining: your storage=20 cabinet. No problem, but take care of proper procedures what to do if = the=20 storage fails. You can mirror that to another storage cabinet (or SAN, = NAS,=20 or whatever non-BAARF-banned configuration you can think of (see=20 www.baarf.com)) or consider using Data Guard, one of my favourites ;-). Regards, Carel-Jan Engel =3D=3D=3D If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) =3D=3D=3D At 06:45 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote: >we have - amongst others - 2 sun fire v240, each has fibre channel =3D >adapters and is connected to a storage system. a storage system is a =3D >system, that makes the connected machine(s) - if correctly configured - = =3D >believe, that there is one ( or more ) additional scsi drive(s), that can = =3D >be treated like physically built in device(s). in this document i'll call = =3D >it vdisk (like HP does). ><gggg> >(in case you all know it: forgiveness for beeing smart allecky)=3D20 ><gggg> > >tricky: both of the 2 sun-v-240 can mount both devices, so - in a =3D >completely stupid and unusable case - both machines have both devices =3D >mounted in rw. never considered this as a seriously working configuration.= =3D >*BUT* if one sun-v-240 is down, the other one can mount it in rw and use = =3D >it. this is a working - and not stupid - situation. (admitted: the =3D >sun-v-240 is not likely to be down, but just for the sake of this now let = =3D >us assume) =3D20 > >consider the scenario described the paragraph before. and now consider = =3D >there is an (identical) oracle installation on both machines, correctly = =3D >designed (pathes, sysmlinks...), so that both machines can - mutually =3D >exclusively - mount the device and start the oracle machine (instance) = and =3D >mount and open ... the database(s). it works. listeners can be configured.= =3D >works too.=3D20 > >can this be considered a failover scenario???=3D20 >did I possibly overlook some nasty detail??? > >any input appreciated. (... even rebukes) > >assumed: the storage area network (2TB) never really fails - raid 5, .... = =3D >and so forth. > >kr MR > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. >------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. ------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------