Step number one, what is the purpose of your DR site? Is it supposed to handle 100% of normal expected load or something less? The answer, which has to come from management, with end user buy in, will tell you if 3 nodes are sufficient or you really need 6. ______________________________________________________________ Dick Goulet / Capgemini North America P&C / East Business Unit Senior Oracle DBA / Hosting Office: 508.573.1978 / Mobile: 508.742.5795 / www.capgemini.com Fax: 508.229.2019 / Email: richard.goulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 45 Bartlett St. / Marlborough, MA 01752 Together: the Collaborative Business Experience ______________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Klier Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:32 AM To: dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: chris.dunscombe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RAC and Data Guard Configuration Question Hi, maybe it's an option to use huge nodes with a better peak performance. This will be useful for the single-instance-recovery as well. But it's not cheaper, by far not. Martin Dan Norris schrieb: > Chris, > > As Martin pointed out, for the "normal" case where DR is just performing > recovery, only one instance will be used to apply all redo. However, the > case you should be more concerned about is what happens when you > actually activate the DR site and try to run production there. If your > production workload requires 4 or 5 nodes in your current 6-node > production site, then trying to place that workload on 3 nodes will > result in a complete outage and negate any DR benefits you were trying > to achieve. In fact, it's almost worse since you'll be trying to run on > the DR site, failing, and likely will be troubleshooting the resulting > issues on the DR site. Meanwhile, no one is working on trying to get the > primary production site back up and running. > > In no case would I consider running two instances on the DR servers > since that will probably just make things worse by carving up each > server's resources (CPU, RAM, I/O) for two instances. I don't think I'd > worry about instance naming since all applications should connect via > services (where service_name <> instance_name) anyway. I would use the > same service names on the DR site as I have on production, though. > Shouldn't be a requirement, just might make things easier. > > GL! > > Dan > > Chris Dunscombe wrote: >> <snip> >> On the DR site we only have 3 nodes, we'd like 6 but 3 is all that >> we're going >> to get. >> >> The question is should we configure DR to have 1 instance per node >> (same as >> production) but this leaves only a total of 3 instances and hence 3 >> redundant >> UNDO tablespaces etc or have 2 instances per node? >> >> Also is it best practice to have the instance names on DR the same as in >> production. >> >> Any experiences, advice, "best practice" etc. for this is most welcome. >> > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l