Oracle Partner: Consolidating Database Servers With Oracle RAC
Posted by Tania LeVoi on Fri, Nov 19, 2010
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As Micheal Kruse, Senior Oracle Specialist writes in his whitepaper: "Consolidation is not a new concept within IT. For decades, IT managers have been attempting to reduce costs by consolidating resources – making more efficient use of a smaller amount of these resources, while also attempting to simplify and standardise the IT infrastructure, thereby providing ease of administration – reducing the support cost."
Several layers of consolidation exist – some of which have moved from being “best practice” to “normal practice”, others which are driving the modern age of “Consolidation Projects”; and some which are still considered to be a “one step too far”.
The concept of server consolidation using Oracle RAC is slightly different to other approaches, as it not only consolidates servers, but also at the cluster layer – thereby gaining not only the cost benefits of Server Consolidation, but also the technical capabilities of modern Grid computing.
Download the White Paper: Consolidation, without Virtualising: ‘Gaining all the benefits of server consolidation & more - using Oracle RAC’ -
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This paper discusses the possibilities of Oracle RAC to achieve hardware consolidation – achieving all the benefits of more common methods such as virtualisation.
But not only does consolidation using Oracle RAC add technical benefits over and above the traditional benefits of server consolidation – it is also a very simple process compared to other methods of consolidating servers. In order to demonstrate this, we will walk through two scenarios, utilising Oracle RAC to consolidate a number of existing Oracle database servers. First, however, an explanation of some of the features of Oracle RAC which make this strategy possible…
Micheal Kruse is an Oracle database technology specialist with 10 years' experience across a range of industries. His passion is in envisioning and providing innovative solutions to meet difficult and unique requirements. Micheal is a Senior Oracle Consultant with DSP Managed Services.