CA XOsoft™ High Availability Option for Oracle (formerly CA XOsoft WANSyncHA Oracle)
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle is a business continuity solution based on asynchronous real-time replication and automated application failover and failback to provide cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery for Oracle on both 32- and 64 bit Windows servers, as well as MSCS clusters.
CA XOsoft High Availability offers push-button or fully automatic failover of mission-critical database servers over a LAN or WAN, Oracle-aware status monitoring, integrated continuous data protection as a guard against data corruption, and completely non-disruptive automatic testing of your Oracle high availability solution, all in a system that sets the standard for ease of configuration and management.
The flow of data is the heart of any organization and Oracle has become a central part of the modern business infrastructure for data storage and management. If disaster should strike, whether in the form of a hurricane, a blackout, or far more likely, a virus attack or software or user error, your ability to respond well to the crisis can make the difference between a bright future and the end of your business. At the very least, you are likely to incur significant costs in lost business and, perhaps more importantly, lost confidence by your customers, investors, and other stakeholders. Oracle disaster recovery is not just about insurance, it's about maintaining your competitive edge.
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle disaster recovery is designed to give you that edge.
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle — a Solution that offers True Business Continuity
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle is a business continuity solution that integrates several technologies to provide continuous availability of your mission-critical Oracle servers through a wide range of disruptions from server failure to data corruption to the loss of an entire site.
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle provides:
- Asynchronous host-based software Oracle database replication that transfers changes to Oracle data as they occur to a standby replica server located locally or over the WAN
- Automatic monitoring of your production Oracle application, including both server availability and the state of Oracle services and data
- Push-button or auto-triggered automatic failover of all users to a standby server, which may be on the same network or across a WAN at an arbitrarily distant site
- Push-button or automatic failover back to the original server when ready
- Integrated continuous data protection (CDP) for recovery from data corrupted by virus action or user or application error
- A CDP Repository with full text searching capability give end users control to recover important data quickly without placing the burden on IT administrators
- With the New Centralized Manager you have greater operational control by allowing you to manage all your replication/failover scenario configurations for your entire environment from a single console
- Bandwidth benchmarking assessment mode allows you to estimate bandwidth requirements prior to the deployment of any replication scenario. This gives you greater cost control by knowing exactly what your requirements are so that you can purchase only the bandwidth you need to meet your business needs
- Unique ease of installation with no application or user downtime, automated remote installation, and wizard-driven creation of new Oracle high availability scenarios
In addition, for compliance and testing purposes, CA XOsoft's Assured Recovery works in conjunction with the CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle to support full testing of the recoverability of your application and data on the Oracle disaster recovery replica system. Testing is done by actually starting up application services on the replica and performing whatever operations are required to verify the integrity of the data, including updates to the database, without any disruption to or gap in protection of the production system.
Other Resources
Learn more about our Oracle high availability solution by downloading a trial evaluation of the production version of our software. Our white paper Business and IT Requirements for High Availability, will help to complete your Oracle disaster recovery research.
Read about the 5 key principles that guide the design of CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle and all of CA XOsoft's products.
View our library of recorded webcasts and demos pertaining to our Oracle high availability automatic failover solution.
Be sure to contact us for information related to your specific Oracle database replication and high availability needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle Advantage
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle delivers significant benefits that enable reduced cost and complexity, significantly broader and deeper protection against a wide variety of potential disruptions, and support that allows your business to become much more proactive in handling both crisis situations and planned downtime. Major benefits of the CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle database replication and high availability solution include:
Broader Oracle Disaster Recovery Protection for Reduced Vulnerability
Effective protection is not about having a single technology, but about layering solutions to provide protection against the full range of types of failures. CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle works with the other critical components of your business continuity system, like clustering, backup and snapshot technologies, and then itself adds several key technologies to address a broad range of potential threats. Remember: anything that keeps your business from doing what it does is a disaster, whether that is a flood, virus, or bug in your server software. CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle enhances your ability to respond, and therefore your ability to provide continuous, reliable service to your customers.
- Automatic failover across LAN or WAN protects against storage failure on a cluster or standalone system as well as loss of an entire site
- "Soft" installation allows software to be deployed without server reboots or application service restarts — which means no downtime is required to deploy the solution
- Real-time Oracle database replication minimizes potential data loss
- Integrated continuous data protection (CDP) ensures recovery even when data becomes corrupted
- Oracle-specific monitoring ensures that failures are detected quickly, allowing you to respond quickly
Increased Productivity: Oracle Disaster Recovery Solution with Automatic Failover
In the end, the purpose of a business continuity solution is productivity: to ensure that your people and your business are able to continue operating during and after a disaster. CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle ensures this through consistent use of automation throughout the operation of the product, increasing the productivity of your system administrator through ease of configuration and management and of your users through decreased application downtime.
- Fully automatic failover or manually triggered, single-click failover reduce the time that users are unable to work
- Fully automated push-button failback when your production system is ready avoids cumbersome reconfiguration and additional downtime
- Auto-discovery of Oracle components and auto-configuration of appropriate settings means minimal administrator time to configure your high availability solution
- Intuitive GUI for central management of all business continuity scenarios maximizes administrator productivity
- Support for scenario templates and support for configuration changes to multiple scenarios at once increase productivity and reduce errors
- Together with CA XOsoft Assured Recovery, fully automated testing requires no administrator intervention and has no user impact, while maintaining Oracle disaster recovery protection at all times
- Remote installation wizard and zero-downtime installation minimize demands on IT staff and impact on users
True Oracle High Availability Solution with Reduced Complexity and Cost
It is important that the expense in money and time of purchasing, installing and managing your Oracle database replication and Oracle high availability solution be commensurate with the potential cost that you are protecting against. Some systems truly require the tremendous expense and complexity of the very highest-end high availability solutions, but most applications can trade a few extra seconds during an automatic failover for dramatically reduced up front and total costs.
- Protection tailored to the subtleties of the Oracle environment simplifies setup for dramatically reduced time to deploy
- Hardware and platform-independent software approach provides an effective Oracle high availability solution at significantly lower cost
- Oracle-aware automation and intuitive interface reduce administrator time for lower TCO
- Real-time asynchronous Oracle database replication offers continuous protection over cost-effective networks
- Single point of management and monitoring reduces management complexity.
- Clear scenario status indicators and multiple alert paths ensure that issues requiring action are identified quickly
- Support for scenario templates and support for configuration changes to multiple scenarios at once increase productivity and reduce errors
- Has no hidden costs - does not require advanced OS editions or third-party clustering solutions
- Combined with CA XOsoft Assured Recovery, allows zero-impact, fully automated testing of your Oracle disaster recovery system
- Easily combines with virtual server technologies for reduced cost and complexity
(see our solution paper Consolidation of Disaster Recovery Replica Servers: WANSync and Virtual Server Technologies)
- Scheduled bandwidth throttling reduces impact on production environment
Increased Flexibility to Fit Your Needs and Environment
Our CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle solution is designed to be an out-of-the-box solution for realistic environments, but also provides support for you to customize to fit your needs.
Extending CA XOsoft High Availability to New Oracle-Based Applications
To support all these capabilities, CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle must support the ability to monitor Oracle services, to start and stop services during failover or failback, to check which server is currently active and which passive, and to redirect users from one server to another. For Oracle, all of these capabilities are built into the product and available out-of-the-box. In addition, however, for every single one of them it is possible to register a user-defined script which can replace or augment the default actions.
Why? Because many applications are built on top of infrastructure applications like Oracle. A related example of this is the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which links with two other applications: Microsoft Exchange to provide the underlying email infrastructure, and Microsoft SQL to store all BlackBerry data. By properly configuring the master and replica servers and registering just four simple scripts you have a tailored high availability solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Similar solutions for Oracle-based applications are straightforward.
Oracle disaster recovery — How Much Availability is Enough?
The ability of a business to cope with disasters has always been important. As increasing numbers of business processes come to depend on database infrastructure, so too have the needs for collateral technologies to ensure that the DQL data and services that underlie these processes can be brought back online within a reasonable time.
What has changed, however, is the amount of downtime that modern businesses can tolerate and the extent to which their processes depend critically on IT infrastructure support. No longer is it sufficient for most business to be up again within a few days or even a few hours. And no longer is last night's backup sufficient. Many businesses today need to be able to switch to backup systems within minutes and to keep data losses to within just the transactions in process at the time of failure.
That is the kind of Oracle high availability solution that CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle provides.
When disaster strikes and critical Oracle servers go down, just having backups or standby replica servers may not be enough. What is needed is the capacity for rapid and automatic failover to servers that have up-to-the-minute mailbox data so that users can just keep working.
View our recorded webcast demonstration of our automatic failover solution for Oracle.
Oracle High Availability Solution For Critical Applications
The CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle solution for business continuity with Oracle database replication and automatic failover ensures that, should a critical Oracle server become unavailable — due to failure or maintenance-related downtime - a replica will immediately provide service in its place without the need for time-consuming manual procedures or, even worse, reconfiguration of client machines. Easy to say, but any administrator who has had to carry such a procedure out for a modern application server well knows that it is not easy to do.
CA XOsoft High Availability provides a tailored, out-of-the-box automatic failover solution for critical industry-standard applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle databases, IIS for Microsoft web servers, and File Server for tailored file server support as well as customizable protection for other application servers.
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle — an Oracle Disaster Recovery Solution with Automatic Failover
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle is based on the CA XOsoft Replication platform for host-based asynchronous replication over LAN or WAN, but extends it to provide a true high availability solution with Oracle-aware monitoring and automatic failover, even across IP networks.
CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle builds on CA XOsoft Replication's ability to maintain standby replicas of complete Oracle servers. These synchronized servers may be local to the organization, but may also be maintained remotely, with real-time Oracle database replication over the WAN ensuring that the information on the standby servers is only seconds behind the production system. Should a server fall prey to unexpected failure or be brought down for maintenance, a synchronized replica, regardless of where it is located in the world, can automatically and instantaneously be brought on-line to maintain high availability, with no need for laborious manual procedures.
Failover may be triggered automatically, or CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle can be configured to alert the appropriate administrator who can trigger an automated failover with a simple push of a button. When the production server is available again, failback is equally simple — a push of a button. The entire process takes only a few minutes — at most the time required to stop and start application services on the servers involved.
You can find more detailed technical information on CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle and the architectures that support it in our accompanying advanced discussion of replication, high availability and automated testing technology. An even more in-depth discussion for those who really wish to understand the underlying technology is available in our advanced architecture overview white paper, Disaster Recovery and High Availability with WANSync: An Architectural Overview.
Read about the 5 key principles that guide the design of CA XOsoft High Availability Option for Oracle and all of CA XOsoft's products.
Gain a better understanding of the CA XOsoft Oracle high availability products by downloading a trial evaluation of our production software. Download our Business and IT Requirements for High Availability, white paper as a resource for your Oracle disaster recovery research.
Be sure to view our library of recorded webcasts and demos pertaining to our Oracle high availability solution.
Be sure to contact us for information related to your specific Oracle database replication and high availability needs. |
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