Where to start with ServiceGuard

[Andrew Moody_1]

Dear All

I'm currently looking at trying to provide a more robust environment for our Oracle E-Business Suite and I'm trying to understand how best to do it.

What I'd like please, are pointers to documentation on what ServiceGuard will actually give me, and it's implementation. Particularly in a mixed hardware environment of rp7410, rp5470, rp3440. Furthermore I'm trying to understand if there is a performant model/config for ServiceGuard where the resources of the entire cluster can be pooled to provide more performance or is it just a resiliance product (and in that case would performance be limited to standard of the least performant node).

Also if anyone knows or has experience of Oracle 9i Rack or 10g Grid and ServiceGuard I'd be interested to see documents and hear experience of how this all works.

With thanks

Andrew

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Andrew,
I would start at the hp documentation.

For example:
"What is Service Guard"
http://docs.hp.com/en/B3936-90100/ch01s01.html

Which is part of:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B3936-90100/index.html

[melvyn burnard]

For standard Serviceguard, start here:
http://docs.hp.com/en/ha#Serviceguard

and if you then wish to investigate Serviceguard Extensions for Oracle RAC, go here:
http://docs.hp.com/en/ha#Serviceguard%20Extension%20for%20Real%20Application%20Cluster%20%28ServiceGuard%20OPS%20Edition%29

These will give you a lot of documents to choose from.
If you are after "sales" type stuff you vcan also go here:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6469-0-0-0-121.html

[Andrew Moody_1]

Thanks Gents, I think I'll also be paying a visit here

http://h41156.www4.hp.com/education/details.aspx?cc=uk&ll=en&id=3087

[melvyn burnard]

A very good place to start, if you can arrange it.
And then a further course you may be interested in:
http://h41156.www4.hp.com/education/details.aspx?cc=uk&ll=en&id=3085