With the introduction of 10g, Oracle delivered management software specifically designed for enterprise grid computing – the ability to add capacity on demand to provide superior manageability, scalability, availability and ROI.
This white paper describes the practical issues associated with implementing and operating an Oracle Grid environment using HP EVA storage and ProLiant servers. In addition to Oracle Grid Control, there is detailed information describing HP’s Enterprise Management capabilities and specifics describing how to use these within an Oracle Grid.
The white paper addresses the following fundamental deployment and operational issues:
- How Oracle Grid Control can be used to manage an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) environment
- The differences and benefits of Grid Control compared to the previous management framework, Oracle Enterprise Manager
- How Grid Control can be used to respond to ad-hoc needs for additional storage capacity, and the specific procedures to add this capacity
- How to use Grid Control in conjunction with Oracle’s Automatic Storage Manager (ASM)
- How Grid Control can be used to respond to needs for additional server capacity, and the specific procedures to add a server to a RAC configuration
- How to use Grid Control to see the effects of the changes made to the environment
- The recommended HP management components and how they are used with Grid Control to deliver synergies to HP environments running Oracle Grid
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