VENDOR UPDATE | 18 March 2019

Dbvisit Standby Version 8 (8.0.26) Latest Updates

Dbvisit Standby Supported Platforms

 

Latest release 8.0.26 (18th March 2019)

Dbvisit Standby Supports the following platforms:

• Linux
  • Linux 64bit (OEL (5,6,7), RHEL (5,6,7) and SLES (11,12)
• Windows
  • MS Windows 64bit (MS Windows 2008, 2008r2, 2012, 2012r2, 2016)
• Solaris
  • x86_64 v10 and above, SPARC v10 and above
• IBM
  • AIX 5.3 and above

 

Oracle Database Support

 

Supported Oracle Database Editions

Dbvisit Standby Supports the following Oracle Editions:

• Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE)
• Oracle Database Standard Edition One (SE1)
• Oracle Database Standard Edition One (SE2)
• Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE)
• Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)

 

Supported Oracle Database Versions

The following Oracle Database versions are supported with Dbvisit Standby version 8.0.x:

• Oracle Database 10g (10.2.0.5)
  • Supported only from Dbvisit Standby Version 8.0.22.
• Oracle Database 11g
  • 11.2.0.1 is the base version supported
  • Oracle 11.2.0.4 and above patch level recommended
• Oracle Database 12c
  • Oracle SE/SE1 up to 12.1.0.1
  • Oracle SE2 and EE 12.1.0.2 and above
  • Oracle SE2 and EE 12.2 are supported from Dbvisit Standby 8.0.12
• Oracle Database 18c
  • Oracle SE2 - excluding Oracle RAC configurations
  • Oracle EE - excluding Oracle RAC configuration as well as any specific Enterprise Edition features

 

Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Support

• When installing Dbvisit Standby on an environment using ASM for database storage, Oracle Grid Infrastructure version 11.2 and higher is recommended.
• Recommended 11g version to use 11.2.0.4 including the latest patch updates.
• Recommended 12c version 12.1.0.2 and above, including latest patch updates.

 

Oracle RAC

The following Oracle RAC configurations are supported:

• Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) 11g
• Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) 12c
• Oracle Fail-Safe

 

Standby Version 8 Latest Changes

 

8.0.26 (18th March 2019) Changes:

1. DS-1487: Improve the copy of repository (standby/conf/dbname.db file) between primary and standby
2. DS-1486: Update query used during Graceful Switchover to obtain temp files
3. DS-1476: Update certificates supplied with installation
4. DS-1473: Fix internal JSON related parsing causing dbvagent failure
5. DS-1452: Internal improvement to logging
6. DS-1485: Internal update to allow certain spfile parameter values to be carried over to standby database during Create Standby Database (CSD) - these were specific to values that was set to a 0 (zero) value.
7. DS-1494: Update internal timeout value in Central Console and link to sessionTimout in configuration file
8. DS-1495: Internal update to DDC template default values
9. DS-1498: Resolve issue where tracefile were not attached to error email notification
10. DS-1499: Update database disconnect at end of dbvctl run. This resolves potential "Segmentation fault" after a successful execution
11. DS9-140: Internal updates to better cater for environments where standby database is created on ACFS based filesystems
12. DS-1500: Resolve issue where "Error parsing config file" reported in dbvnet or dbvagent
13. DS-1503: Internal fix to resolve error creating support package when dbvnet is not installed and ssh is used 

 

Further Help and Assistance

For further advice about Dbvisit Standby and Dbvisit Replicate, including product sales, installation and support services, please contact one of our pre-sales technical team on 0330 332 6223 or visit our website nlightn-IT.com