We evaluated HACMP for clustering but ended up on VCS. Mostly for political reasons. Regardless, the single point of failure continues to be storage. We have a large installed AIX base. Node failure is almost unheard of. However, storage failure seems to be an annual event. Pete Barnett DBA Tech Lead Regence --- On Wed, 8/27/08, DIANNA GIBBS <DIANNA.GIBBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: DIANNA GIBBS <DIANNA.GIBBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: HACMP automatic Oracle failover in non-RAC environment > To: "oracle-l-freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 2:25 PM > Is anyone currently doing or have any thoughts or comments > on using AIX HACMP automatically to fail-over Oracle in a > non-RAC > environment. > > Do I need to worry about data corruption or anything else? > We have > manually done this and I've restarted Oracle, shutdown > cleanly > and then restarted again. Done my sanity checks and all > has been > ok. > > I've been ask about automating this failover w/scripts. > My thoughts are > I need to control this process and be aware but I also > realize > hardware and software are becoming more and more > sophisticated. > > Thoughts? > > </pre> <span style="font-weight: > bold;">Please consider the environment before > printing this e-mail</span><br /> > <br /> > > <span style="font-size: 8pt;">This e-mail, > facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments > transmitted with it contains<br /> > information that is confidential and privileged. This > information is intended only for the use of the <br /> > individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If > you are the intended recipient, further <br /> > > disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. > If you are not the intended recipient, any <br /> > disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information > is strictly prohibited and possibly a <br /> > violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you > have received this information in error, <br /> > please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas > immediately at 214-456-4444 or via e-mail at <br /> > privacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Children's Medical Center > Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all <br /> > applicable privileges related to this > information.</span><br /> > > <br /> > </html> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l