Preface

The Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Oracle Data Guard provides procedures for administering Oracle Data Guard data replication with Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition software on both SPARC and x86 based systems.

Who Should Use This Book

This document is intended for system administrators, support personnel, and application developers who work with the Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition (Geographic Edition) product, Oracle Database or Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) software, and Oracle Data Guard software.

To understand the concepts that are described in this book, you need to be familiar with the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Oracle Solaris OS) and also have expertise with Oracle Solaris Cluster software, with Oracle Data Guard software, and with the Oracle Database or Oracle RAC software that is supported for use with Oracle Solaris Cluster software.

How This Book Is Organized

This guide contains the following chapters and appendix:

Chapter 1, Replicating Data With Oracle Data Guard Software describes how to configure data replication with Oracle Data Guard software.

Chapter 2, Administering Oracle Data Guard Protection Groups describes how to administer data replication with Oracle Data Guard software.

Chapter 3, Migrating Services That Use Oracle Data Guard Data Replication describes how to migrate services for maintenance or in the event that your cluster fails.

Appendix A, Geographic Edition Properties for Oracle Data Guard Broker Configurations describes the properties for Geographic Edition data replications that use Oracle Data Guard.

Related Documentation

Information about related Geographic Edition topics is available in the documentation that is listed in the following table. All Geographic Edition documentation is available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html.

For a complete list of Geographic Edition documentation, see Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition 3.3 5/11 Release Notes.

Getting Help

If you have problems installing or using the Oracle Solaris Cluster software, contact your service provider and provide the following information:

• Your name and email address (if available)

• Your company name, address, and phone number

• The model and serial numbers of your systems

• The release number of the operating system (for example, the Solaris 10 11/06 OS)

• The release number of Oracle Solaris Cluster software (for example, 3.3 5/11)

• The contents of the /var/adm/messages file

Use the following commands to gather information about your systems for your service provider.

Documentation and Support

See the following web sites for additional resources:

• Documentation

• Support

Oracle Software Resources

Oracle Technology Network offers a range of resources related to Oracle software:

• Discuss technical problems and solutions on the Discussion Forums.

• Get hands-on step-by-step tutorials with Oracle By Example.

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts