Design and Architecture of an Oracle RAC/ASM Clustered Solution

The ability to extract information from today’s large scale data warehouse environment requires a flexible, highly scalable storage solution that can demonstrate return on investment required in today’s competitive environment. EMC VNX MCx Multi-Core platform provides a balance of performance, capacity, capital cost, and operating cost that is unrivaled in the industry.

This Knowledge Sharing article presents the challenges facing businesses running large scale Oracle RAC data warehouse environments. In it, Armando Rodriguez describes a scale out, building block approach for a Storage Grid architecture utilizing VNX with an Oracle RAC data warehouse solution.

The article provides a reference architecture with the EMC VNX platform that allows a business to scale out to multi-petabyte capacity and 100’s or even 1000’s of gigabyte per second of storage bandwidth. Armando explores reference design, manageability, supportability and architecture details.

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