Requirements

The requirements analysis was completed by a cross-functional team representing the key stakeholders. The critical requirements are:

  1. Service availability so that measured unplanned downtime is less than two hours a year.

  2. Applications are written to support an Oracle 9i RAC database.

  3. Components must be easily expandable to increase capacity without requiring a redesign of the application environment or data center infrastructure.

  4. In case of a disaster, the applications must be running on the secondary site within 6 hours. Planned transfer to the alternate site should occur in less than 30 minutes. Note that the unplanned disaster case has a greater time allowance than the planned disaster case. This is specified so that the disaster ...

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