Here’s an EMC video on Youtube about Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX. Very nice, check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtl6dU2P_E
Oracle RAC on VPLEX now certified
Last week EMC announced that Oracle RAC on VPLEX stretched clusters is now officially supported and certified by Oracle! News Summary: Oracle has certified that EMC® VPLEX™ METRO in a stretch cluster configuration can provide Oracle Real Application Clusters…
Oracle Stretched Cluster with VPLEX (update)
One request I got back after my series on Oracle RAC stretched clusters is if I could summarize again why anybody would choose VPLEX for storage replication over other solutions. My attempt was to describe the principles of VPLEX in…
Eliminate Hot Backup with EMC consistency technology
For many years, EMC customers have been using storage replication technology to create copies of entire databases. Using storage cloning has many advantages over other mechanisms (file copy, tape restore, and the like). Most significant is that EMC storage can…
Stretched Clusters – Alien storage
In my previous posts I described how Oracle ASM can be used to build stretched clusters. I also pointed to some limitations of that scenario. But I am by far not the first one in doing so – and some…