Re: RAC in Active/Passive mode (or disabled)

  • From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: exriscer@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:02:17 -0500

Personally I'd just use srvctl - probably makes it much easier to
"relocate" instances.

In fact 11gR2 will do this for you automatically.  For those who haven't
had a chance to look closely yet, RAC has some major new features.  One
of them (policy-based cluster mgmt) will automatically re-allocate a
node between two cluster DBs by shutting down and starting up instances
- driven by response times - and of course within limits that you set. 
Look for "server pools" in the docs.  Pretty interesting-looking new
feature; I think it's one of the most significant of the release.  :)

-Jeremy


LS Cheng wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
> We are running a 4 nodes RAC on Sun Solaris 10, each node with 16
> quadcore CPU and 512GB memory. There are 12 database in this Cluster.
>
> We have observed that some instances are running with low activity and
> some needs more horsepower when batch processes kick in. Basically in
> some nodes we are wasting resources which can be used for other instances.
>
> The way we have configured the databases are setting same SGA in all
> nodes so in those idle instances memory is wasted.
>
> We are considering reorganize the memory distributions and
> databases/instances distribution. For example for database APP1 just
> configure two active instances and two passive, for the heavy OLTP
> system all 4 nodes etc.
>
> I have been considering disabling the instance startup for the passive
> nodes. What is the the better method, reconfigure the database in two
> nodes only by using dbca or disabling the instance startup? (srvctl
> disable instance)
>
>
>
>
> TIA
>
> --
> LSC
>


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