{"id":781,"date":"2020-08-10T19:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fernandosimon.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2020-10-19T19:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:52:30","slug":"maa-blueprints-and-on-premise-architecture-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernandosimon.com\/blog\/maa-blueprints-and-on-premise-architecture-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"MAA, Blueprints and On-Premise Architecture Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is the correct way to protect your Oracle database environment (and investment). It covers from a simple single instance<\/em> to Exadata\/Engineered Systems RAC<\/em> and a multi-site database<\/em> with Data Guard protection. But do you know that to reach the MAA (whatever the architecture level that you are protecting) you need to use ZDLRA?<\/p>\n

So, I will start a series of posts to cover the MAA and ZDLRA. Discussing what you need to do (and how) to reach the maximum level of availability as is at the MAA architecture (as defined in the documentation and best practices: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Blueprints for On-Premises<\/a>,  MAA Best Practices – Oracle Database<\/a>, and Maximum Availability with Oracle Database 19c<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Why ZDLRA?<\/h2>\n

The question is why ZDLRA is needed? The point from ZDLRA is that it can (and needed to be used) to protect and reach zero RPO to all architectures. ZDLRA is more (much more) than just a backup appliance<\/strong>, is the core of every MAA design. You can\u2019t reach zero RPO without using it.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So, in the posts, I will discuss every architecture design and how to increase the reliability, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) of the database. And of course, how to be safe in outages using ZDLRA Real-Time Redo, ZDLRA Replication, Data Guard, and Golden Gate.<\/p>\n

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All the images were taken from https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/a\/tech\/docs\/maa-overview-onpremise-2019.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for the next posts ( I will edit the post in the future to put the direct links here too):<\/p>\n

ZDLRA + MAA, Protection for Bronze Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

ZDLRA + MAA, Protection for Silver Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

ZDLRA + MAA, Protection for Gold Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

ZDLRA + MAA, Protection for Platinum Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>: \u201cThe postings on this site are my own and don\u2019t necessarily represent my actual employer positions, strategies or opinions. The information here was edited to be useful for general purpose, specific data and identifications were removed to allow reach the generic audience and to be useful for the community.<\/em> Post protected by copyright.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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