Talkin about backup server my boss asked me what high availability does Oracle offer, I mentioned Parallel Server & Advanced Replication. Our enviroment is already using Sun Cluster technology in a data center so I told him that OPS would offer availability + load balancing now he asks me about Replication I went a bit stoned because I think Replication is really for disasters like the whole data center gets blown up and we would have another replication in another city. And I dont see much point of having two server replicating each other in the same building.
Anyone have a suggestion of using OPS or Replication? I would guess OPS is cheaper to setup?

I didnt even mention standby database because if OPS is used we get availability and load balancing, with Raid 5 we have redundant disks in our situation so in case of disk corruption we can still recover, would standby database provide any improvement in case we lose a disk for whatever reason in the enviroment we are?

By the way since I am not an expert with Solaris does anyone know if Sun Cluster offers load balancing for database servers? (As far as I know it only offers availability)

[Edited by pando on 03-06-2001 at 03:44 PM]