Designing Disaster Tolerant High Availability Clusters, 10th Edition, March 2003 (B7660-90013)

Building a Continental Cluster
Support for Oracle 9i RAC Instances in a ContinentialClusters Environment
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Support for Oracle 9i RAC Instances in a
ContinentialClusters Environment
Starting with ContinentalClusters A.04.00, support is available for
Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster (RAC) instances. Support for Oracle
9i RAC instances means the RAC instances running on the primary
cluster will be restarted by ContinentalClusters on the recovery cluster
to continue serving the clients' databases requests upon a primary
cluster failure. Figure 5-10 is a sample of Oracle 9i RAC instances
running in the ContinentalClusters environment.
Figure 5-10 Oracle 9i RAC Instances in a ContinentalClusters Environment
NYnode1 NYnode2
LAnode1 LAnode2
Running Oracle 9i RAC
ServiceGuard Cluster
WAN
Highly Available
Network
Disk
XP Disk
Array
Array
xp
RAC
Instance1
RAC
Instance2
Los Angeles Primary
XP/CA Data Replication Links
ServiceGuard Cluster
New York Secondary