If I run Oracle in a VCS configured failover zone will it automatically become HA

Hi,

Any progress on the technote? And a question, if I run Oracle in the failover zone - it automatically becomes HA, does it not?

Anonymous
No it doesn't, you need to add to VCS as well. If you do not add to VCS, then if Oracle is configured to start when the zone boots, then Oracle will failover if the zone of physical server faults, but if Oracle (database or listener processes) fault, then VCS will not be aware and Oracle will stay down and not be available. So you should create Oracle and Netlsnr resources to monitor Oracle.

Mike
Gaurav_S
Moderator
13 years ago
Agree with Mike, VCS needs to monitor oracle & listener resources so if you simply put them under zone, VCS won't be aware to monitor oracle though it will only monitor zone ..

you should configure oracle & listener agents to monitor oracle ..

G
joseph_dangelo
Level 6
13 years ago
Darius,

If you configure a Zone for VCS control and then subsequently add an Oracle Resource into the Service group, it will by default execute the monitor entry points inside the Zone. This is due to the Oracle Resource Type ContainerOpts attribute. When a service group has it's ContainerInfo attribute enabled for Zones, the following agents will inherit that setting:

Apache

Application

ASMInst

ASMDG

Db2udb

NIC

IP

IPMultiNIC

IPMultiNICB

Process

Oracle

Netlsnr

Sybase

SybaseBk

The Mount and Oracle DataGuard Agent can also be configured for Zone awareness, however they require some additional setting changes.

Joe D

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