Data Guard in the E-Business

Suite Environment
Chad Johnson
Polk County Board of County
Commissioners

Copyright 2010 by Chad Johnson

Agenda

What is Data Guard?

Why do I care?
How does it work?
What about the E-Business Suite?
Technical stuff

Assumptions

Database is 10g or 11g

Non-RAC environment
Disaster Recovery is Primary Goal
*nix Operating System
Not Using Data Guard Broker or Grid
Control

What is Data Guard

Component of Oracles Maximum
Availability Architecture (MAA)

Maintains an exact copy of a database

Native Oracle tool

Benefits of Data Guard

Free

Simple to use

Native Oracle
 Fully supported
 Integrated

RAC, ASM, RMAN

Protects against data corruption

ZERO data loss (caveat emptor)

Terminology

Primary database

Standby databases
 Physical
 Logical
 Active Data Guard (11g)

Switchover vs. Failover

Terminology

Protection modes
 Maximum Protection
 Maximum Availability
 Maximum Performance

Transport services
 SYNC
 ASYNC

Performance Considerations

Available network bandwidth

Round trip network latency
Standby servers I/O performance
The effects are cumulative

Wait Events
SELECT
FROM
WHERE

event, time_waited
V$SYSTEM_EVENT
event LIKE 'LNS wait%';

EVENT
TIME_WAITED (centaseconds)
---------------------------------LNS wait on ATTACH
74
LNS wait on SENDREQ
3820
LNS wait on DETACH
0
LNS wait on LGWR
0

Transactions

A logical unit of work that must
succeed in its entirety or fail
completely

Why do I care?
 Transfer money from savings to checking

So, when IS my data safely written to

disk?

Data in an Oracle Database

Redo a group of change vectors,
each of which is a description of a
change made to a single block in the
database

Redo is the key to Data Guard

Local and remote destinations

LGWR

Online
Redo
Log Files

ARCn

Primary
Database

Archived
Redo Log
Files

Data Files

LGWR

Primary
Database

Online
Redo
Log Files

LNS
Process
Real Time
Apply

MRP

RFS

Standby
Database

Standby
Redo
Log Files

ARCn

Archived
Redo Log
Files

Data Guard in the House

Ship redo, apply redo, repeat
Log Network Server (LNS)
Remote File Server (RFS)
Fetch Archive Log (FAL) client and
server

SYNC and ASYNC

E-Business Suite Considerations

Data Guard is a database-only tool

Application and database tiers are
tightly coupled

Configure application tier with
adclonectx.pl

Secondary Data Center Should:

Be physically distant from primary

Have sufficient bandwidth

Have reliable network services to
primary data center and to users
point of presence

Have same type of servers with same
disk layout (for simplicity in DR)

Secondary Data Center Should:

Have same OS and Oracle directory
structure to correctly resolve
compiled references if PL/SQL code is
natively compiled
 Plsql_code_type=INTERPRETED #Default 11i setting

Have other hardware and software

needed for backups, monitoring,
system management, etc.

WARNING!

The technical (i.e. fun) stuff begins now

This is a good time for general questions

Create a Physical Standby

The database name must be the same
for the primary and all physical standbys

The host/server names and the
db_unique_name must be different

The user & group IDs of the Oracle and
apps owner accounts must be the same

Consider copying concurrent manager
log & out files to standby server (rsync)

Create an EBS Standby

Enable forced logging

Configure Oracle Net communications
Create a password file (on primary)
Adjust init.ora parameters
Add standby redo logs
Invite communications from standby

Create an EBS Standby

Pre-clone the database and apps tiers
Copy APPL_TOP and apps tech stacks
Copy ORACLE_HOME and database files
Generate standby control file and copy it
to standby server

Gather temporary file info

Create an EBS Standby

File based configuration on standby
application server

File based configuration on standby
database server

Stop listener on standby database
server

Configure Oracle Net for redo
transmission

Create an EBS Standby

Start listener - standby database server

Modify init.ora parameters on standby
Mount physical standby
Start redo processing on standby
Start shipping redo to standby
Verify redo is being shipped
Add temp files to standby
Rsync log and out files (optional)

My Oracle Support Notes

Note 216212.1 Business Continuity
for Oracle Applications Release 11i,
Database Releases 91 and 10g

Note 1068913.1 Business Continuity
for Oracle E-Business Release 11i
Using Oracle 11g Physical Standby
Database

Thank You

Questions and Answers