White Paper Abstract:
This document describes how the Cisco Unified Computing System™ can be used in conjunction with EMC® CLARiiON® storage systems to implement an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) solution that is an Oracle Certified Configuration. The Cisco Unified Computing System provides the compute, network, and storage access components of the cluster, deployed as a single cohesive system. The result is an implementation that addresses many of the challenges that database administrators and their IT departments face today, including needs for a simplified deployment and operation model, high performance for Oracle RAC software, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The document introduces the Cisco Unified Computing System and provides instructions for implementing it; it concludes with an analysis of the cluster‘s performance and reliability characteristics.