Failover
By default VIPs and database services automatically failover to a surviving instance in the case of a crash or node eviction. The VIP will automatically failback to its "home" node once the failed database instance restarts. VIPs and database services can also be manually relocated for maintenance reasons using the Oracle Server Control utility's srvctl relocate
command, allowing a node to be taken off-line without affecting user connections to the database.
Automatic failover
What does this mean to the GoldenGate Manager process running on one node in a clustered environment?
To help answer this question, Oracle Clusterware can also be installed on other servers apart from the database servers to form a single cluster. For example, you can use four database servers and two additional Oracle GoldenGate servers in the single cluster. The Oracle Database would run on the four database servers and GoldenGate would run on one of the two remaining servers, with failover to its dedicated...