FlexFrame for Oracle

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FlexFrame for Oracle is an IT - infrastructure solution from Fujitsu Technology Solutions for Oracle environments. With the software it is possible to dynamically change the use of hardware for database and application servers .

history

FlexFrame for Oracle was created as a joint project between Oracle and Fujitsu Siemens Computers (now Fujitsu Technology Solutions). Following the example of FlexFrame for SAP , a solution based on the should Grid computing properties of Oracle 10g products are created.

At the beginning of 2006 the first version of FlexFrame for Oracle was released for the following Oracle products: Oracle Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

Solely storage systems from NetApp were in the first version NAS technology and blade servers with Intel - processors supported. Since autumn 2006, the software has also been certified for servers with AMD processors.

FlexFrame for Oracle is a pre-integrated IT infrastructure that dynamically assigns servers to Oracle services. Oracle software and operating system are located on a central storage system and can be started on any server in the FlexFrame pool within a few minutes, with installation and maintenance costs being dramatically reduced.

Load peaks are dealt with quickly by adding additional systems. In the event of a server failure, the Oracle service is automatically restarted on another system.

Components

The system consists of two servers working as a cluster, called Control Center , with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9, which monitor the work servers and are used for configuration.

The operating systems and applications are located as images on Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems, from which, according to the manufacturer, they can be transferred to any server in just 10 minutes and started there.

The servers themselves on which the application and database servers are operated are referred to as application nodes . The operating systems provided here are SLES 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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