Monday, March 10, 2014

Benefits of Using RAC

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) enables high utilization of a cluster of standard, low-cost modular servers such as blades.

RAC offers automatic workload management for services. Services are groups or classifications of applications that comprise business components corresponding to application workloads. Services in RAC enable continuous, uninterrupted database operations and provide support for multiple services on multiple instances. You assign services to run on one or more instances, and alternate instances can serve as backup instances. If a primary instance fails, the Oracle server moves the services from the failed instance to a surviving alternate instance. The Oracle server also automatically load-balances connections across instances hosting a service.

RAC harnesses the power of multiple low-cost computers to serve as a single large computer for database processing, and provides the only viable alternative to large-scale symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) for all types of applications.

RAC, which is based on a shared disk architecture, can grow and shrink on demand without the need to artificially partition data among the servers of your cluster. 
 
RAC also offers a single-button addition of servers to a cluster. Thus, you can easily add a server to or remove a server from the database.

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