On other architectures you would have more products available.

On zseries I fear you have few alternatives to RAC.
Heartbeat + Mon could be an option... the other is to use the oracle
clusterware for an active passive configuration.

Probably both are not certified.

Regards
Fabrizio

On 7/27/06, Yu Safin <calanet@(protected):
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> I was suggested to join this list from the OpenSuse list.
> I am in the process of setting up Oracle under Linux from an AIX/Oracle
> set up.
> At the same time, I have been asked to look into high availability.
> The application in question is making calls from a Java JAR to Oracle.
> I am trying to avoid using RAC due to its complexities and what might
> be an over kill.
> I was wondering if anybody had suggestion on how to proceed or
> experiences that can be shared.
> I run Linux under zVM on a z-Series IBM mainframe. The external disk
> is EMC Symmetric.
> The application is from an aix p-570 server with 10 cpu. The
> mainframe runs zVM on 2 IFL. The benchmarks are showing a similar
> result in terms of performance, query response time, elapsed times and
> CPU utilization.
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