Sridhar Ranganathan and Jeffrey Wright have written a paper explaining how to use Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System remote replication with Oracle databases and how to perform disaster recovery (DR) at the target site. The article is intended for anyone who wants to implement replication techniques with Oracle databases. The authors note that the release they used was 2008.Q4.

The 21-page PDF covers the following content:

Remote Replication Feature of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

• Terminology and Operations
• Modes of Replication: Scheduled Replication and Continuous Replication
• Advantages of Deploying the Remote Replication Feature
• Considerations While Deploying the Remote Replication Feature

Replicating Oracle Databases

• Replicate Full Database
• Replicate Online Redo Logs

DR Scenarios for Full Database Replication

• Setting Up for Full Database Replication
• Full DB Replication: Failover for Testing and Backup Purposes
• Full DB Replication: Failover Without Role-Reversal
• Full DB Replication: Failover With Role-Reversal
• Failback to Source Site After a Failover

DR Scenarios for Online Redo-Log Replication

• Setting Up the Standby Database at the Target Using Remote Replication
• Online Log Replication: Failover to Standby Site

More Information

Disaster Recovery Solution for Oracle Databases Using Remote Replication Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System by Sridhar Ranganathan and Jeffrey Wright in Application Integration Engineering (login or registration required)

Approaches to Backup and Recovery for Oracle Databases

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System Product Page

Sun's Unified Storage documentation

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