It's random, if you want to control which is more preferreable you have to use callout scripts Thanks -- LSC On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:32 PM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi, > > Does someone know how Oracle will decide to which instance a service will > failover if multiple instances are marked as available for that service? > > Is it to the least loaded node? > Is it the same node to which the vip of the failed node will failover? > > The environment consists out of a 3 node rac and Oracle version is 10.2.0.4 > on windows 2003 (not my decision). > > Unfortionatly I don't have permission to fail some nodes to test it myself > ... :-( > > > Regards, > > > Freek D'Hooge > Uptime > Oracle Database Administrator > email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx > tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 > http://www.uptime.be > disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >