Re: High Availability Options

  • From: Zhu Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: John Thompson <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:02:54 +0800

Regarding long mount time for vcfs, we used vcs ha not having the problem. Are 
u using clustered filesystem for RAC?

If using ha long os boot time should not be a problem, as usually it is 
inactive node?

Btw ,         
 

Best regards
Zhuchao


在 2010-10-22,3:09,John Thompson <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx> 写到:

> Before we moved tho this architecture, we were running on Solaris with 
> Veritas VCFS.  We had many problems with this enviornment including VCS 
> caused kernel panics.  Even when it worked, it was very inefficient.  
> rebooting one of these servers would take 30-45 mins due to the length of 
> time it takes to mount all the VCFS.
>  
> CRS is free in the context of our use.  11gR2 is even better with the ACFS 
> capabilities.  No longer have to use OCFS2 for the binaries.  Lots of 
> benefits to this type of design including big license savings by moving off 
> the Solaris chips to cheaper priced (licenseing) Intel chips.
> 
> 2010/10/21 Zhu Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx>
> Just curious,how do u think between vcs type of ha, compared with crs?
>  Including license, maturity , and ease of management?
> Thx
> 
> Best regards
> Zhuchao
> 
> 
> 在 2010-10-21,3:32,John Thompson <jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx> 写到:
> 
>> For HA, we use Oracle CRS to mange single instance databases.  CRS will 
>> failover the db and listener in case of failure.  For DR, we use Dataguard, 
>> SRDF.
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Michael Dinh <mdinh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am curious as to what options are available for HA and what you are using.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I have the following list:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Veritas Cluster Server
>> 
>> VMware VMotion
>> 
>> Oracle RAC
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Ideally, we want to stick with Solaris.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Michael Dinh
>> 
>>  
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