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This reference architecture guide explains how to deploy Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on the PowerFlex platform to implement a reliable and highly available solution to meet your current business demands.
This guide also provides the best practices and guidelines for configuring the Oracle RAC database workload and PowerFlex software-defined storage to meet the scalability needs of your business with optimal performance.
This reference architecture guide is intended for Oracle database administrators, system administrators, system architects, and technical administrators of IT environments, and anyone who is interested in installing and configuring an Oracle RAC database using PowerFlex.
Readers should have a basic knowledge of PowerFlex and Oracle database technologies and should be familiar with storage, compute, and networking technologies and topologies.