Serviceguard Solutions for Business Continuity

Built on the functionality of HP Serviceguard, SGeRAC uses a networked group of HP Integrity servers to create highly available clusters that support Oracle RAC. Integrated tightly, these two products provide the best features of HP enterprise clusters and Oracle relational database servers. You gain high availability, data integrity, flexibility, and scalability in your Oracle RAC environment—all of which are essential to protect your infrastructure and enhance business uptime.

SGeRAC works together with Oracle Clusterware to provide an improved high-availability solution that can address your concerns over unplanned downtime. It delivers rapid automatic detection and recovery from a wide range of hardware, software, network, and storage errors helps increase the availability of your applications. SGeRAC also provides a superior level of protection by enabling you to withstand multiple node failures. Since Serviceguard Solutions are part of the HP Virtual Server Environment, you also can now maintain service-level objectives during planned and unplanned downtime.

The tight integration between SGeRAC and Oracle RAC also enables faster detection and failover, and you can even achieve nearly continuous application availability by implementing a fully-disaster tolerant solution.

SGeRAC uses advanced clustering mechanisms and robust volume managers to eliminate data corruption and preserve data integrity. You’ll also benefit from data integrity protection among nodes, both inside and outside of the cluster. Flexibility is paramount, so SGeRAC supports four storage management options for Oracle RAC: Cluster file system (CFS), Shared Logical Volume Manager (SLVM), Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and Automated Storage Management (ASM) on SLVM and raw volumes.