Replication Best Practices for Oracle 11g With ASM & EVA8x00

Overview

Disk-array-based remote copy infrastructures have been available and in use for over a decade. When properly configured and deployed, they are capable of providing a timely recovery from a variety of failures, including the loss of an entire data center site. Relying on a combination of well-understood technical issues, plus information from recent customer briefings and a commissioned study with IDC, HP has determined the key requirement: The remote copying of databases must be done in concert with the native Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) technology in order for the solution to be practical.