CHAPTER 9

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Network Practices

by Riyaj Shamsudeen, Kai Yu

Reliable and scalable network architecture is a critical element in Real Application Cluster (RAC) infrastructure design. The availability of applications in a RAC database depends heavily on the reliability of the network infrastructure. Many design aspects of a RAC cluster’s underlying network should be considered before implementing a cluster in a production environment, since making changes to the RAC cluster after production go-live is never easy. As nodes in a cluster are monitored by exchanging short messages between the Clusterware daemons, any network disconnect can lead to messaging ...

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