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Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting By Jonathan Gennick, Hugo Toledo
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Part II: Net8 Configuration
Net8 supports two important advanced features: failover and load balancing. These options are actually related , and they are usually used in Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) environments. Failover allows you to configure Net8 such that failure to connect to one instance results in a connection attempt to a backup instance. Failover is used in high-availability environments to ensure that clients are always able to connect to a database. Load balancing allows you to distribute client connections among the various nodes accessing an OPS database.