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Oracle RAC 10g

Reference Architecture Guide

Abstract

This document provides an overview of the architecture of the EMC solution for Oracle
RAC 10g on Dell/EMC CX3 Series arrays over FPC. This solution was developed by
the EMC Commercial Solutions Practice.

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Contents

Preface...............................................................................................................................x

Chapter 1 Solution Overview..........................................................................................................1-1

The business challenge...................................................................................................1-2

The technology solution .................................................................................................1-2

Solution advantages................................................................................................1-2

Chapter 2 Solution Architecture......................................................................................................2-1

Overall architecture ........................................................................................................2-2

General characteristics............................................................................................2-3

Storage network architecture..........................................................................................2-4

FCP 2-4

Storage architecture........................................................................................................2-4

High availability and failover.................................................................................2-4

RAID type and RAID group configuration ............................................................2-5

LUN setup...............................................................................................................2-8

ASM and OCFS2....................................................................................................2-8

Database server architecture...........................................................................................2-9

Oracle Database 10g server FCP network architecture ..........................................2-9

Oracle Database 10g server IP network architecture..............................................2-9

Oracle cluster ready services (CRS).....................................................................2-10

High availability and failover...............................................................................2-10

Application architecture ...............................................................................................2-10

Chapter 3 Hardware and Software Resources.................................................................................3-1

Hardware resources ........................................................................................................3-2

Software resources..........................................................................................................3-2

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Figures

Figure 2-1 Overall architecture of all Oracle RAC 10g Dell/EMC CX3 Series FCP
solutions other than test/dev

Figure 2-2 Overall architecture of the Oracle RAC 10g Dell/EMC CX3 Series FCP
test/dev solution

..............................................................................................................2-3

Figure .......................................2-6 2-5 Configuration 1: 3 FC shelf RAID 1-0 / RAID 1

Figure ..........................................2-6 2-6 Configuration 2: 3 FC shelf RAID 5 / RAID 1

Figure .......................................2-7 2-7 Configuration 3: 2 FC shelf RAID 1-0 / RAID 1

Figure ..........................................2-8 2-8 Configuration 4: 2 FC shelf RAID 5 / RAID 1

...........................................................................................2-2

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Tables

Table ...................................................................................1-2 1-1 Solution advantages

Table ..........................................2-2 2-1 Oracle RAC 10g FCP Solution configurations

Table ...............................2-5 2-2 Oracle RAC 10g FCP Solution RAID Configurations

Table ......................................................................................2-9 2-3 File system layout

Table .....................................2-10 2-4 Database server network interface configuration

Table .............................................................................3-2 3-1 Hardware specifications

Table ..............................................................................3-2 3-2 Software specifications

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