Oracel Real Application Clusters

An Oracle White Paper

June 2013

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Oracle Database 12c Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Executive Overview ........................................................................... 1

Oracle Real Application Clusters – Overview..................................... 2

Business Continuity and High Availability .......................................... 5

Scalability and Agility ......................................................................... 6

Cost-effective Workload Management ............................................... 7

Standardized Deployment and System Management ...................... 11

Oracle Real Application Clusters New Features .............................. 12

Oracle RAC Support for Oracle Multitenant ................................. 12

Application Continuity and Transaction Guard ............................. 13

Oracle Flex ASM ......................................................................... 15

What-If Command Evaluation ...................................................... 17

Policy-managed Database and Cluster Management .................. 18

Summary and Conclusion................................................................ 20

Oracle Database 12c Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Executive Overview

Business continuity, high availability, scalability, flexibility and agility combined with easy

management are the pillars of successful IT infrastructure and cloud deployments. The

Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC) has been the solution of choice for

thousands of Oracle customers for their database systems for more than a decade. Oracle

Real Application Cluster 12c continues this success, providing significant enhancements

in all of the areas that matter to your business success.

Originally focused on providing improved database services, Oracle RAC has evolved over the

years and is now based on a comprehensive high availability (HA) stack that can be used as

the...