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

[dariuszz]

Hi,

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

[#2]

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]

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 · Accepted solution]

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