Chapter 6. Case Study 2—Database Cluster

This chapter contains a case study of a hypothetical company, referred to as the Company, that needs a database cluster. This case study defines the Company and its computing requirements—an Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster (Oracle 9i RAC) running on Sun Fire™ 4800 mid-range servers using Sun StorEdge T3 arrays as the shared storage.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Company Description

• Information Technology Organization

• Design Goals

• Business Case

• Requirements

• Design Priorities

• Cluster Software

• Recommended Hardware Configuration

• Summary