Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in High Availability?

1 Overview of High Availability

• 1.1 Introduction to High Availability
• 1.2 What is Availability?
• 1.3 Importance of Availability
• 1.4 Causes of Downtime
• 1.5 What Does This Book Contain?

2 Oracle Database High Availability Features and Products

• 2.1 Oracle High Availability Features and Solutions for Unplanned Downtime
  • 2.1.1 Fast-Start Fault Recovery
  • 2.1.2 Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Clusterware
  • 2.1.3 Oracle Data Guard
  • 2.1.4 Oracle Streams
  • 2.1.5 Transportable Technologies
  • 2.1.6 Oracle Flashback Technology
  • 2.1.7 Automatic Storage Management
  • 2.1.8 Recovery Manager
  • 2.1.9 Oracle Secure Backup
  • 2.1.10 Data Recovery Advisor
  • 2.1.11 Flash Recovery Area
  • 2.1.12 Oracle Security Features
  • 2.1.13 LogMiner
  • 2.1.14 Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) Initiative
  • 2.1.15 Hang Manager
  • 2.1.16 Data Block Corruption Prevention and Detection Parameters
  • 2.1.17 Oracle HA Solutions and Recovery Times for Unplanned Downtime
• 2.2 Oracle High Availability Features and Solutions for Planned Downtime
  • 2.2.1 Dynamic Resource Provisioning
  • 2.2.2 Oracle High Availability Solutions and Recovery Times for Planned Downtime
  • 2.2.3 Online Reorganization and Redefinition
  • 2.2.4 Online Application Maintenance and Upgrades
• 2.3 Optimizing Grid Computing and Disaster Recovery Solutions
  • 2.3.1 Grid Computing
  • 2.3.2 Database Server Grid
  • 2.3.3 Database Storage Grid
  • 2.3.4 Disaster Recovery Solutions with Better Standby Database Usage
• 2.4 Optimizing Manageability
  • 2.4.1 Intelligent Infrastructure
  • 2.4.2 Change Assurance
  • 2.4.3 Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

3 Determining Your High Availability Requirements

• 3.1 Why It Is Important to Determine High Availability Requirements
• 3.2 Analysis Framework for Determining High Availability Requirements
  • 3.2.1 Business Impact Analysis
  • 3.2.2 Cost of Downtime
  • 3.2.3 Recovery Time Objective
  • 3.2.4 Recovery Point Objective
  • 3.2.5 Manageability Goal
  • 3.2.6 Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return On Investment (ROI)
• 3.3 High Availability Architecture Requirements
  • 3.3.1 High Availability Systems Capabilities
  • 3.3.2 Business Performance, Budget, and Growth Plans

4 High-Availability Architectures and Solutions

• 4.1 Oracle Database High-Availability Architectures
  • 4.1.1 Oracle Database
  • 4.1.2 Oracle Database with Oracle Clusterware (Cold Cluster Failover)
  • 4.1.3 Oracle Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • 4.1.4 Oracle Database with Oracle RAC on Extended Distance Clusters
  • 4.1.5 Oracle Database with Data Guard
  • 4.1.6 Oracle Database with Oracle Clusterware and Data Guard
  • 4.1.7 Oracle Database with Oracle RAC and Data Guard
  • 4.1.8 Oracle Database with Streams
• 4.2 Choosing the Correct High-Availability Architecture
• 4.3 Integrating Application Server High Availability
  • 4.3.1 Oracle Application Server High Availability Architectures
  • 4.3.2 Redundant Architectures
  • 4.3.3 High Availability Services in Oracle Application Server
• 4.4 Integrating High Availability for All Applications

5 MAA and High Availability Best Practices

Index