Chapter 12: NT Clusters

Chapter 12: NT Clusters

Overview

This chapter was written by Ramu V. Sunkara, Director in Oracle System Products Division. He is responsible for Oracle Fail Safe Solutions.

In this chapter we discuss Oracle Database solutions for the NT Clusters Market (Oracle Fail Safe and Oracle Parallel Server), how to use NT clusters and the type of applications where this would be appropriate. We will also review when it is appropriate to use the Oracle Parallel Server.

NT Clusters and Oracle Solutions


	?	How much revenue is lost during downtime because you are unable to serve your customers?


	?	How many times have you rebooted your Windows NT systems (for example, during a software or hardware upgrade)?


	?	What happens to your business if the system fails and your database becomes inaccessible?


	?	Can you add more nodes (machines) to solve your database scalability problems?

No enterprise can afford to risk downtime of their database systems. Oracle database solutions for NT Clusters, Oracle Fail Safe and Oracle Parallel Server, solve these problems by providing high availability and scalability for Oracle databases. Oracle Fail Safe is a highly available single instance database and Oracle Parallel Server is a highly available, scalable multi-instance database. Both of these solutions are available for Oracle7 release 7.3.3 onwards and for Oracle8.

Figure 12.1 positions Oracle Database solutions for the NT Clusters market. An Oracle Fail Safe Database offers high availability compared to a standalone Oracle Database. An Oracle...

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