Creating a highly available GoldenGate configuration using Oracle Clusterware and DBFS

In this recipe we will go through the steps needed to create a GoldenGate configuration in an Oracle RAC environment using Oracle Clusterware and DBFS.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we have a two-node Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 database in the source environment. We have also created a database called dbfsdb, which will be used to create the DBFS repository according to the following specifications:

  • Flashback should be disabled for the DBFS database
  • Compatible Parameter must be set to 11.2.0.2 or higher
  • Database Character Set should be set to AL32UTF8
  • Parallel_Max_Servers should be set to 2

For this illustration, we have created the database on the same diskgroup as racdb ...

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