We are sharing with you some certifications information on IBM AIX for Oracle 11g and 10g (Oracle ASM, GPFS 3.2, Power HA 5.4.1,etc..) and more (Oracle and IBM System Storage, IBM technical documents)
Companies rely on an Oracle grid infrastructure to provide a solid yet flexible base for their applications.
The only EBS R12 official benchmarks published are on IBM Power. Last Summer 2008 Oracle with IBM conducted a benchmark in the Oracle/IBM Joint solution Center in Montpellier (France). This benchmark was Telco oriented.
Last week the Joint Solution Center ORACLE/IBM (Montpellier, France) offered opportunity for Oracle EMEA Appstech Community to install Oracle Apps Release 12 in a MAA environnement. 21 participants over 5 days took part in the hands-on labs for installation Oracle E-business Suite R12.0.4 on different IBM hardware available ( Linux 64.bit, AIX and Z-Linux). Students [...]
I will not present RAC on this post but I would like to share with us some information on new architecture asked by customers named “RAC Extended/Stretched Cluster“.
The benefits of RAC are :
Full utilization of resources, from 1 to n nodes for one and ONLY one physical database.
Protection against Nodes failure …
But what’s happen in [...]
Very often during Customer’s briefing at Oracle/IBM Joint Solution Center we have questions regarding how to backup Oracle RAC using Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management). ASM is a Database File System that provides cluster file system and volume management capabilities integrated into the Oracle database 10g at no additional cost. ASM lowers your total [...]
My collegues Frederic Michiara from Oracle and Thierry Plumeau from IBM working into ORACLE/IBM Joint Solutions Center did a fantastic document titled Oracle 11g RAC Release 1 with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on IBM System p and i Running AIX 5L with SAN Storage.
Inside this document they describe [...]