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raccheck 2.2 beta released v. 2.2.0 Beta Support for Single Instance Configurations (i.e., no longer limited to RAC configurations) High Availability (HA) Best Practices New checks and bug fixes This new version was prodiced with collaboration with ORACLE HA team in Support to add their Top 20 checks for common problems related to backup and [...]

November 2nd, 2012 | Tags: Data-Guard, RAC, raccheck, RMAN | Category: Data Guard, Installs, RAC, RMAN, Scripts | Leave a comment

If you’ve extended your RAC cluster on a set of new nodes you already know how painful it can be to have to go through the list of your clients and make sure their SQL*Net configuration is up to date. 11gR2 solves this problem using Single Client Access Name (SCAN). The single client access name [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: 11gR2, SCAN, single client access name, vip | Category: RAC | Comments (66)

I was just reading up on the 11gR2 documentation for Grid Infrastructure Installation and finally we have a closure on the topic of RAW and BLOCK devices for OCR and VOTING disks: With this release, OUI no longer supports installation of Oracle Clusterware files on block or raw devices. Install Oracle Clusterware files either on [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: 11gR2, grid, raw or block devices | Category: RAC | Comments (3)

MAA recommends to enable Flashback Database on the primary prior to FailOver: Enable Flashback Database to reinstate failed production databases after a failover operation has completed. Flashback Database provides a second very significant function, enabling fast point in time recovery if needed. See: MAA_WP_10gR2_SwitchoverFailoverBestPractices.pdf Enabling Flashback Database involves setting up flash recovery area and setting [...]

August 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Failover, Flashback Database, FRA, guaranteed restore point, MAA, Switchover | Category: Data Guard, RAC | Comments (5)