RAC to RAC duplicate....Is this possible?
I have oracle 11.1.7 on solaris 64 and am running a 2 node RAC system. I'd like to duplicate this to a different server(s) in a RAC environment (test system). (Rac to Rac duplicate). Both systems will be pretty much identical using ASM. (2 node for production and 2 different nodes for test)
I've done a duplicate of single instance to single instance and RAC to single instance with no problems. However, I've been reading that it's more difficult to do RAC to RAC.
Research that I've done shows it may not be possible to do a straight RAC to RAC duplicate and that you would first need to duplicate to a single instance and then convert the single instance into a RAC cluster. Is this accurate?
I have read from one user that you can go RAC to RAC as long as you comment out the RAC related parameters on the auxillary.
Right now I have my test environment already has the clusterware, RAC, and ASM installed and just doesn't have any databases associated with it. I was hoping I could just do a duplicate into this environment and would be okay.
Does anyone have experience with RAC to RAC and whether this is possible or whether I might need to go RAC to single instance and then convert to RAC?
thanks