Chapter 6. Case Study 2—Database Cluster

This chapter contains a case study of a hypothetical company, referred to as the Company, that needs a database cluster. This case study defines the Company and its computing requirements—an Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster (Oracle 9i RAC) running on Sun Fire™ 4800 mid-range servers using Sun StorEdge T3 arrays as the shared storage.

This chapter contains the following sections:

  • Company Description

  • Information Technology Organization

  • Design Goals

  • Business Case

  • Requirements

  • Design Priorities

  • Cluster Software

  • Recommended Hardware Configuration

  • Summary

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