Sunday, May 10, 2020

Oracle Standard Edition High Availability Released - A Quick Summary of New Features

Oracle released a High Availability version of Oracle Standard Edition (SE2) recently.

There is a very good blog post by Markus Michalewicz Senior Director Oracle Product Management summarizing the following new features. Here is a quick recap of what's new with SE2.
  • With SE2 Cluster-based failover using Oracle Clusterware is now available for single-instance Standard Edition Oracle Databases. 
  • With this latest release of Oracle Standard Edition, you can now use standard Oracle Clustering features such as Automatic Storage Management (ASM), ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) & Oracle Clusterware on Oracle Standard Edition.
  • Oracle Standard Edition is completed integrated with 19c RU 19.7.
  • However, Oracle Standard Edition High Availability DBs are NOT RAC enabled - to RAC enable your Oracle databases, you still do need Real Application Clusters (RAC) option enabled.
  • There is no direct upgrade path for a single instance or a pre-19c RAC Standard Edition 2 Database
  • The Standard Edition High Availability option can be failed over to an unlicensed machine for up to 10 days.
  • SE2 is available on Windows, Linux & Solaris family of Operating Systems.
Enjoy the SE2 version of Oracle.

Cheers.

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