Affords High Availability for the Database, OS, Storage System
Learn the installation steps for a 3-node Sun Cluster 3.2 01/09 (or later) configuration running with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) / Cluster Ready Services (CRS) 11.1.0.7 and a Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System for high availability in the database, the OS, and the storage system.
A How-to that Eliminates the Unpleasant Surprises
The task of installing a multi-node RAC cluster of Oracle 11g R2 on Solaris 10 with an EMC PowerPath has acquired the reputation of being a troublesome assignment. In the interests of sparing readers some of the tribulations, Dossy Shiobara has written a guide to the installation that gathers heretofore difficult to find suggestions in a single, how-to source.
Just the Ticket for Rapidly Growing Company
StubHub, an eBay affiliate, and the world’s largest ticket marketplace, upgraded a mission-critical, online transaction processing (OLTP) database from Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) to Oracle 10g RAC. To take advantage of high scalability and mainframe-class performance, StubHub also moved the database from a 32-bit platform to a 64-bit platform with Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System.
Beats IBM Performance by 26%, HP’s by 87% 
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Cluster is number one in the Top Ten TPC-C List by Performance as of Nov. 24, 2009. Using 12 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers, 60 Sun Storage F5100 Flash arrays and Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Partitioning, Sun delivered a world record TPC-C benchmark result of 7,646,486.7 tpmC and $2.36 $/tpmC (USD). TPC-C is an online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark.
Over Infiniband on Solaris 10
Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) using Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) on Solaris 10 is the subject of a Sun BluePrints article that describes the software and hardware configurations along with the steps necessary to install and configure the components. Authors Uday Shetty and Peter Sciarra also explain the testing used to validate the example configurations defined in the article.
Sun BluePrints Describes Architecture, Provides Performance Information
A Sun BluePrints Online article discusses the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution, describing the architecture and performance characteristics for determining proper sizing of systems. According to the authors, the Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 with Oracle solution provides an integrated platform to deploy a highly reliable Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure that delivers simplicity, speed, and savings. Read the BluePrints piece to learn more.
Sun BluePrint: “Running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun Logical Domains”
Read this Sun BluePrints for running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers set up with Sun Logical Domains (LDoms). Learn about implementing a solution that runs in both development and production environments. Imagine virtualization technology available that comes with Sun LDoms that allows the creation of multiple virtual systems. However, these LDoms run on a single physical system. With this technology, users can set up the fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.
