Hi Jeff
Yes, patching is really concerning me because windows and linux have
different patches plus how can we run datapatch for both platforms!
Oracle is trying to sell Cloud to my customer and the sales guy tells him
that many Oracle customers run windows on premise and linux in Cloud with
heterogeneous configuration. In
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/hybrid-dg-to-oci-5444327.pdf
states that this is also possible but nowhere says how to deal with
patching.
Thanks
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 1:07 AM Jeff Chirco <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Minus the cloud I did this for when I moved from Windows to Linux. Windows
was primary and I created a data guard instance on Linux, ran that way for
a few days then did a switchover. It worked well for that use case, as
for a DR case not sure if it is the best idea. When you do a switch or
fail over you'll have to manually update any directories you use since it
is on a different file system. Plus not sure how familiar you are with
Linux, something to think about. Then there is patching, not sure if there
is any issues with that, downloads are different per OS.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 1:41 PM Ls Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
IHAC is considering migrating their DR database to Oracle Cloud (OCI).
The situation is that the primary database runs in Windows and the current
DR runs also in Windows Server. OCI only supports Databases on Linux so we
will have to set up a Data Guard where the primary database runs in Windows
and DR in OCI runs in Linux.
Anyone have experience running Data Guard
in heterogeneous configuration?This will be 19c.
Thanks
