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Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture

The Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) from Oracle provides high data availability and protection across all technology layers by minimizing planned and unplanned downtime. MAA uses Oracle's high availability technologies according to best practices to create redundant primary and secondary sites that can failover if the primary site goes down. Using technologies like Oracle Real Application Clusters, Data Guard, and Active Data Guard, the secondary site acts as a synchronized standby to take over the primary role in the event of an outage while continuing to serve queries to enhance performance. MAA provides flexibility to optimize high availability architectures for specific business needs.

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Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture

The Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) from Oracle provides high data availability and protection across all technology layers by minimizing planned and unplanned downtime. MAA uses Oracle's high availability technologies according to best practices to create redundant primary and secondary sites that can failover if the primary site goes down. Using technologies like Oracle Real Application Clusters, Data Guard, and Active Data Guard, the secondary site acts as a synchronized standby to take over the primary role in the event of an outage while continuing to serve queries to enhance performance. MAA provides flexibility to optimize high availability architectures for specific business needs.

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Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture - Overview

The Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) provides superior data protection and availability by
minimizing or eliminating planned and unplanned downtime at all technology stack layers
including hardware or software components. Data protection and high availability are achieved
regardless of the scope of a failure event - whether from hardware failures that cause data
corruptions, or from catastrophic acts of nature that impact a broad geographic area.

MAA also eliminates guesswork and uncertainty when implementing a high availability
architecture utilizing the full complement of Oracle HA technologies. MAA Best Practices are
described in a series of technical white papers and documentation to assist in designing,
implementing, and managing an optimum high availability architecture.

For example, the following diagram represents an HA architecture involving the Oracle Database
and Oracle Application Server.

Example of an HA Configuration using MAA Best Practices


This architecture involves identically configured primary and secondary sites. The primary site
contains multiple application servers and a production database using Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC) to protect from host and instance failures. The secondary site also contains
similarly configured application servers, and a physical standby database kept synchronized with
the primary database by Oracle Data Guard. Clients are initially routed to the primary site. If a
severe outage affects the primary site, Data Guard quickly fails over the production database role
to the standby database, after which clients are directed to the new primary database to resume
processing. The Active Data Guard Option with Real-Time Query (Oracle Database 11g) enables
the physical standby database to be open-read only while apply is active; enhancing primary
database performance by offloading overhead from ad-hoc queries and reporting to the
synchronized standby database at the secondary site. Data Guard 11g Snapshot Standby also
makes standby databases an ideal QA system, without compromising data protection. Thus all
computing resources are actively utilized, even those that are in a "standby" role - providing
maximum return-on-investment along with data protection and availability.

The architecture presented above is only one example of an MAA implementation. The rich set of
Oracle High Availability features provide customers with the flexibility to implement an MAA
architecture optimized for specific business requirements.

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