Key Features of Geographic Edition Software

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 command-line interface (CLI)

• 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

The Geographic Edition software provides tools for managing data replication between geographically separated clusters. The software supports the following data replication products:

• EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility

• MySQL

• Oracle Data Guard, for use with HA for Oracle and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) only

• Geographic Edition script-based plug-ins, to integrate user-written replication modules

• The Availability Suite feature of Oracle Solaris

• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance from Oracle

Geographic Edition software supports HA for Oracle and Oracle Real Application Clusters with Oracle Data Guard.

The Geographic Edition product provides highly available services within a cluster by utilizing Oracle Solaris Cluster resource management features.