Why Sun Cluster software is the best deployment platform for Oracle 9i and 10g RAC on the Solaris Operating System.
The availability of an application service depends on the ability of the deployment environment to recover from a failure with a minimum amount downtime and an absence of data corruption.
Sun Cluster 3.1 software offers Oracle9i RAC and 10g RAC customers
world-class availability by helping to ensure the lowest amount of
downtime.
The new Sun Cluster Advanced Edition for Oracle RAC provides
enterprises increased manageability for Oracle
Real Application Clusters (RAC) deployments on the Sun Java Availability
Suite for both SPARC and x64 platforms. This product leverages the
industry-leading Sun Cluster software
to deliver best-in-class high availability, manageability and
performance for Oracle RAC customers in enterprise and database grid
markets. This end-to-end Sun stack comprised of StorEdge QFS
software, Sun Cluster RAC agent and Solaris Volume Manager extensions,
makes it easier than ever to manage Oracle 10g RAC database.
Here are three good reasons why Sun Cluster 3.1 software offers one of the best deployment platforms for Oracle9i and 10g RAC.
Low Cost without sacrificing resiliency and performance. Sun Cluster 3.1 software licenses are competitively priced. Sun does not charge extra for differentiating benefits such as Sun Cluster Remote Shared Memory (RSM) technology that boosts Oracle RAC performance. Sun eliminates the need for using third-party software products by supporting Oracle RAC and Sun Cluster deployments on the high-performance StorEdge QFS file system or the Solaris Volume manager. By using an integrated and high-performance Sun software stack, customers realize savings over utilizing a third-party software solution stack.
Sun also supports Sun Cluster/Oracle RAC deployments on its low-end servers, giving customers dependable low cost options without sacrificing resiliency and performance. Sun also lowers customer risk by coupling its software offerings with dependable and competitively priced services- enabling a true low total cost of ownership.
Mature, Easy to Manage Solution. Superior Sun Cluster 3.1 and Oracle RAC performance and manageability is the result of more than a decade of joint technology development between Sun and Oracle. The continuous amount of technical breakthroughs, such as RSM, by both companies has resulted in a finely tuned and highly-optimized Sun Cluster and Oracle RAC solution that gives customers the benefit of a stable and mature Oracle solution.
With the ability to deploy Oracle RAC datafiles on a shared Sun StorEdge QFS filesystem, Sun Cluster users can easily manage their Oracle RAC deployments. With its key availability functionality tightly integrated with the Solaris OS kernel, Sun Cluster 3.1 technology offers an advanced degree of resiliency to applications such as Oracle.
Thriving Sun-Oracle Relationship. For business-critical environments, it is important to deploy solutions from vendors who work in mutually successful partnerships- as is the case with Sun and Oracle. The companies work closely together on products and support to provide customers with the optimized solutions that address real customer challenges. Through Sun and Oracle's close collaboration, a streamlined support process is offered to expedite problem resolution.
Not only does Oracle work closely with Sun on developing new software technologies, Oracle also depends on Sun Cluster to provide availability for their worldwide ERP system. For more information on this deployment, please see the story or the flash demontration on sun.com.
The thriving Sun-Oracle partnership results in high performance, and lowered downtime for Sun Cluster 3.1/Oracle deployments.
Read more about the many companies that benefit from high availability environments enabled by Sun Cluster 3.1 and Oracle RAC implementations.
