Re: Alias VIPS to SCAN

  • From: Stojan Veselinovski <stojan.veselinovski@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Freek D'Hooge" <freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx>, ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 10:50:29 +1000

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
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>
>   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
>
>


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