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Why should I use RAC One Node instead of Oracle Fail Safe on Windows?

April 26, 2017fail Node Oracle RAC safe Windows

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Why should I use RAC One Node instead of Oracle Fail Safe on Windows?

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Oracle RAC One Node provides better high availability than Oracle Fail Safe. RAC One Node’s ability to online relocate a database offers protection from both unplanned failures and maintenance outages. Fail Safe only protects from failures and cannot online relocate a database. RAC One Node supports online maintenance operations such as online database patches, online OS patches and upgrades, online database relocation for load balancing, online server migrations, and online upgrade to full RAC. In an environment where it is difficult to get windows of downtime for maintenance, this is a big advantage. Also, where Fail Safe is only available on Windows, RAC One Node is available on all platforms. A customer with a mixed platform environment would benefit from having a standard HA solution across all their platforms.