Dear sirs,
I have the following situation:
- Primary single instance database (12.2) with file-system data files (no ASM)
- A two nodes RAC database with ASM (same version 12.2)
- I need to use data guard (physical standby) to replicate the single instance database into RAC one, then perform switch-over in order to make the RAC database as primary database.
Questions:
- Is this possible ?
- What about standby logfiles, how to create standby logfiles for both threads (because it's 2 nodes database) on primary database (the single instance one) or this is not required ?
- Do the parameters (log_file_name_convert and db_file_name_convert) help to avoid the difference in directory names (/u01/... to +DATA/... for example) ? .. can I make successful switch-over even if storage options are different?
Kindly advice and thanks ..