High Availability (HA) has become an all important factor in computer system design in recent years. Systems can't afford to be down, not even for a minute because they may be mission-critical, life supporting, regulatory, or the financial impact may be too great to bear. Oracle has played a major role in developing a number of HA solutions, one of which is Real Application Clusters (RAC).
The Oracle GoldenGate 12c product is now integrated with RAC out-of-the-box and requires minimal additional configuration in the form of integrated capture and delivery.
In this chapter, you will learn how to configure GoldenGate into a RAC environment and explore the various components that effectively enable HA for data replication and integration.
This includes the following discussion points:
Shared storage options
Load balancing options in a –two node RAC environment
GoldenGate on Exadata
Failover
We will also look at all the features available to GoldenGate when...