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 > email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx > tel +32(03) 443 12 38 > http://www.exitas.be > > 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 > > -- Stojan www.stojanveselinovski.com/blog www.stojanveselinovski.com