srvctl service perferred instance failover advise?
My production 2 node 11gr2 rac services has configured with preferred instance option for load balance on both nodes. Now i have concern whether it will failover to other available node or not ex: if node 1 i.e rprd1 goes down will it move connections to node 2 i.e rprd2 and vice verse? i tried to add the second node in available instance its not accepting andin client tns entry there is no failover or loadbalance option. Kindly advise which option i have to use for achieving loadbalance + failover connections in failure of node for 2 node rac?
srvctl config service -s orcl_s1 -d rprd
Service name: orcl_node1
Service is enabled
Server pool: rprd_orcl_s1
Cardinality: 1
Disconnect: false
Service role: PRIMARY
Management policy: AUTOMATIC
DTP transaction: false
AQ HA notifications: false
Failover type: NONE
Failover method: NONE
TAF failover retries: 0
TAF failover delay: 0
Connection Load Balancing Goal: LONG
Runtime Load Balancing Goal: NONE
TAF policy specification: NONE
Edition:
Preferred instances: rprd1,rprd2
Available instances: