The Geographic Edition product provides the following features:
Failure detection of multiple clusters that are geographically separated
Configurable heartbeat monitoring between clusters
Application resource switchover from one cluster to another cluster
Remote management of partner clusters through a browser interface and a command-line interface (CLI)
Management of Oracle Data Guard that is running on remote systems which are not running Oracle Solaris Cluster software.
Data replication between geographically separated clusters
Secure administration interfaces through role-based access control (RBAC)
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) authentication and encryption for communication between nodes or clusters
Configurable IPsec security for data replication between clusters and for heartbeat communication between clusters
Ability to automatically run a script when a heartbeat-loss notification is issued
Ability to start, stop, switch over, or take over predetermined sets of protection groups in a single operation
The Geographic Edition software provides tools for managing data replication between geographically separated clusters. The software supports the following data replication products:
Availability Suite feature of Oracle Solaris software
EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility
Hitachi TrueCopy and Universal Replicator
MySQL
Oracle Data Guard, for use only with HA for Oracle Database or Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), with the Oracle database running locally or accessed remotely by using HA for Oracle External Proxy
Oracle GoldenGate
Oracle Solaris ZFS snapshots
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
Script-based plug-ins feature of the Geographic Edition framework, to integrate user-written replication modules