This section will provide you with an overview of the new release updates of Dbvisit Standby MultiPlatform v11 (StandbyMP).
StandbyMP v11 is a major update with an new multi platform architecture, all-new user interface, and support for Microsoft SQL Server.
Due to the volume of improvements and changes a changelog has not been provided.
Key new features include:
Multi platform architecture enables Oracle and SQL Server Disaster Recovery from one common control center.
Highly intuitive GUI, where all DR configurations can be viewed and managed from a single page.
Intelligent activate for Oracle allows failover to a specific “safe” activation points when using a log application delay.
Multi-database actions, even across platforms.
Real-time, distributed, event-driven communication.
Greater scalability with the ability to manage hundreds of database hosts and DR configurations.
Dbvisit Standby MultiPlatform caters for the following operating systems:
Linux
Oracle Linux 6, 7 and 8 (64 bit)
Red Hat 6, 7 and 8 (64 Bit)
Windows (See known issues below)
Windows Server 2012 and above (64bit)
Dbvisit Standby MultiPlatform supports the following Oracle Database versions:
Oracle Database 10gR2 (10.2.0.5 recommended) - If using ASM 11gR2 version required for Graceful Switchover
Oracle Database 11gR2
Oracle Database 12cR1 and R2
Oracle Database 18c
Oracle Database 19c
Oracle Database 21c
Oracle Multi-tenant for Oracle SE2 is supported
New pluggable databases can be added to an existing primary database, which will be propagated to the standby database when you send and apply archivelogs.
Max of 3 pluggable databases is allowed in the primary databases. If you are adding more than 3 pluggable databases, please contact Dbvisit support.
Dbvisit Standby MultiPlatform supports the following Microsoft SQL Server Database versions:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Onwards
All versions of Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Platforms.
Support for Oracle SE2HA (Standard Edition2 High Availability) will be available only from the next release.
Graceful Switchover with SQL Server InMemory tables is not supported.
Multiple standby databases for SQL Server are not supported in the current release.
Dbvisit Standby currently only supports ipv4, not ipv6.
Dbvisit Standby includes Oracle 12.2 Instant Client libraries by default. If your system has a different version of Oracle installed, it is possible under some rare circumstances for a library version conflict to occur. If you experience any errors similar to "PRKN-1008: Unable to load the shared library orasrvmhas12.dll", you can usually resolve them easily by renaming this library in the dbvisit/standby folder to "orasrvmhas12.dll.12.2" or by using replacing the Instant Client libraries in $DBVISIT_BASE/standbymp/oracle or $DBVISIT_BASEdbvisit/standbymp/oracle/lib (depending on your operating system).
Multi-language support (Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)
Full Oracle SEHA support
New APIs for 3rd party integration
New CLI (Control Center and Agents)
SQL Server: Automatic "New Database on Instance" Detection + Configuration and Standby Database Creation
SQL Server: Multiple standby databases for a single source database
SQL Server: Introducing the SQL Server Graceful Switchover Cascade: seamlessly switchover and then switchback a SQL Server Database Configuration with multiple standby databases while always retaining log shipping between all affected databases.
Significant improvements made to CPU load/process efficiency/process management, vastly improving memory/CPU consumption
Full SMTP connection debug info is now available
Better handling for Windows PATH misconfigurations
SQL Server Apply Delay now works as expected
Missing logs now generate common-sense errors straight away instead of creating notifications on apply
Improvements for Oracle Cascades
CSD is now available as a multi-configuration Action for SQL Server
Automatic Standby Update is now disabled when activating standby for DR testing in Oracle
Fixed licence update UI & improved messaging for licence errors
Warnings added for Switchover + Snapshots interaction
The dashboard now shows the correct Instance state for Oracle RAC Configurations with multiple active nodes
Improved custom backup location handling for 2+ Configurations sharing the same primary
HOSTNAME_CMD files are now correctly migrated during upgrades
It is now possible to use non-standard local addresses for SQL Server Instance discovery
Added several new Events and notifications for various issues (Automated Standby Update failing, various log gap states, etc)
Major performance improvements to UI rendering, which should now be much faster and more responsive when working with large numbers of Configurations & Tasks.