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Using Data Guard in a Real Application

Clusters Configuration

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to deploy

Data Guard in a Real Application Clusters environment.

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 Real Application Clusters and Data Guard

Possible combinations of instances in the primary and

standby databases:

Primary Single-Instance Multi-Instance

Instance Standby Database Standby Database

Single-Instance Yes Yes

Multi-Instance Yes Yes

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 Configuration Considerations with RAC

Format for archived redo log file names: Thread variable

(%t or %T) of LOG_ARCHIVE_FORMAT is mandatory.
Data protection modes: Maximum protection or
maximum availability mode; all instances could stop
shipping redo.

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 Multi-Instance Primary Database with a
Single-Instance Standby Database

Primary database Standby database

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 Multi-Instance Primary Database with a
Multi-Instance Standby Database

Primary database Standby database

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 Redo Transport with RAC to RAC

Primary instance A Standby instance C

Archived logs

LGWR
Standb Physical
y standby
redo database
Online files
redo
Primary files
database
LGWR RFS ARCn

Archived
Archived logs logs MRP
Primary instance B Standby recovery instance D

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 Setting Up a Primary Database with RAC

Primary instance A
Archived logs

LGWR

Online
redo
Primary files
database
LGWR

Archived logs
Primary instance B

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 Setting Up a Standby Database with RAC

Standby instance C

Standby Physical
redo standby
files database

RFS ARCn

Archived
logs MRP
Standby recovery instance D

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 Assigning Threads to
Standby Redo Log Groups

Standby
database

Primary Standby
database redo logs

SQL> ALTER DATABASE ADD STANDBY LOGFILE

2 THREAD 1 'STBY_LOGFILE_1.SRL' SIZE 50M;

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 Apply Instance Failover

If the apply instance fails, transport of redo is also

halted by default.
Broker configuration:
Set ApplyInstanceTimeout to avoid downtime.

Default is 120 seconds.

Set to 0 (zero) to disable.
Optionally set PreferredApplyInstance.
Non-broker configuration: Set up a list of destination
connect identifiers.

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 Role Transitions with RAC

Switchovers: Only one primary instance and one

standby instance can be active during a switchover.
Failovers: Before performing a failover to a RAC
standby database, shut down all but one standby
instance.

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 Troubleshooting

Switchover failure
Avoiding downtime during a network outage

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to deploy Data

Guard in a Real Application Clusters environment.

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