Re: Dataguard Exadata -> Database Appliance

  • From: Ivan Ricardo Schuster <ivanrs79@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:46:57 -0300

"One other point to keep in mind is that the ODA does not do rolling
patches"

Why not, Seth?


On 15 April 2014 18:07, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> GG,
>
> I think you are making some assumptions that Chris has already said are
> not relevant, specifically that processing differences are not a problem.
> If his workload idles on an Exadata and idles on an ODA, why would memory,
> smart scan, CPUs, I/O, etc. be an issue?
>
> As many have already mentioned, get the SLA in writing and test the
> workload on the DR system.
>
> One other point to keep in mind is that the ODA does not do rolling
> patches. If this is a maintenance requirement and the ODA becomes your
> primary database, you'll have a problem.
>
> Seth Miller
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:07 PM, GG <grzegorzof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Are You kidding guys ?
>>
>> from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-
>> appliance/oracle-database-appliance-faq-1903200.pdf
>> The Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 is a 4U rack-mountable
>> system with two servers and one storage shelf. The two
>> servers each contain two 12-core Intel Xeon Processors E5-
>> 2697 v2 and 256 GB of memory for a total of 48 processor
>> cores and 512 GB of memory per appliance
>>
>> The Oracle Database Appliance base configuration contains 18
>> TB of raw SAS storage, offering 9 TB double-mirrored or 6
>> TB triple-mirrored of resilient usable database storage. There
>> are also four 200 GB solid state drives for high performance
>> processing of database redo logs.
>>
>>
>> and You want to switchover/failover to that from X3 in memory database ?
>> :) Good luck .
>> The only reason I can think of using ODA as DR for EXA is to have
>> positive answer for Boss question 'do we have DR solution' ?
>> As DBA You can only pray disaster never happen :).
>>
>> Regards
>> GG
>>
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>

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