Oracle Fail Safe Integration with Windows

Oracle Fail Safe ensures that Oracle Database (and also other Oracle and third-party applications) can be configured and managed for high availability on Windows clusters. An instance runs on only one node at a time.

A cluster is a group of independent computing systems that operates as a single virtual system, eliminating individual host systems as points of failure. Oracle Fail Safe works with Microsoft Windows Failover Clusters to ensure that if a failure occurs on one cluster system, then workloads running on that system fail over quickly and automatically to a surviving system. Oracle Database combined with Oracle Fail Safe on a Windows cluster ensures protection from both hardware and software failures.

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Windows server operating systems support the clustering technology. You can install Oracle Fail Safe Manager client on Windows Server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 x64) and on client systems (such as Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1).