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Using Standby as an Alternate for Far Sync (12c): Limitations and Considerations

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Based on Oracle 12.1 The Recommended Data Guard configuration is in Maximum Availability mode, when using Far Sync which is located near the Primary: Primary Database  à Far Sync Instance - Network input/output (I/O) is synchronous (Sync). Far Sync Instance  à  Standby Database – Network I/O is asynchronous (Async). Primary Database  à  Standby Database  – As an alternate (when Far Sync is not reachable), network I/O is asynchronous (Async). Using SQL If you do not use Data Guard Broker (dgmgrl), use the parameters specified below. ·         Primary On the Primary Database Mandatory Parameters Parameter Value Remarks LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_2 point to Far Sync service Alternate log_archive_dest_3 Switches to the standby destination, after the number of failures specified in the next parameter is reached. max_failure 1 This value must be higher than 0 (infinite number of retries), but shoul

Drop/remove Far-Sync Configurations from broker 12.1

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Show current overall configuration DGMGRL> show configuration Configuration - dr  Protection Mode: MaxAvailability  Members:  PRMRY - Primary database    FRSNC - Far sync instance      STNDBY - Physical standby database Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED Configuration Status: SUCCESS   (status updated 49 seconds ago) Show current Primary redo routes settings DGMGRL> show database PRMRY RedoRoutes  RedoRoutes = '(LOCAL : FRSNC SYNC)' Changing to MAXPERFORMANCE to be able  to modify the RedoRoutes DGMGRL> EDIT CONFIGURATION SET PROTECTION MODE AS MAXPERFORMANCE ; Succeeded. Replace Primary RedoRoutes to point to Standby instead of Far Sync DGMGRL> edit database PRMRY set property RedoRoutes='(LOCAL : STNDBY SYNC)'; Property "redoroutes" updated Show current Standby redo routes settings DGMGRL> show database STNDBY RedoRoutes  RedoRoutes = '(LOCAL : FRSNC SYNC)' Replace Standby RedoRoutes to p