High Availability White Papers
Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology
Overview Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees the tobacco industry in Beijing. Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable online information sharing and collaboration. The challenge was to utilize any spare capacity to improve system performance and simplify IT maintenance to reduce costs. The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to build a powerful database environment to support 24/7 operations and ensured high availability by adopting a clustered server solution, which distributes workload across multiple machines to maintain stable system performance.
| Publisher | Oracle | File Format | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date Published | March 2008 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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Accelerated Information Integrity With Data and Storage Management and High Availability Solutions From Symantec and Network Appliance
Designing high-performance race cars is a science that relies on a huge amount of data collected from cars in action. The Renault F1 Team relies on a combination of Symantec...
TechNet Webcast: High Availability With Hyper-V (Level 300)1
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a key feature of Windows Server 2008, is a hypervisor-based technology that provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. It is part of the...
MAA / Data Guard 10g Release 2 Setup Guide - Creating a RAC Logical Standby for a RAC Primary
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle's best practices blueprint based on proven Oracle high-availability technologies and recommendations. The goal of MAA is to remove the complexity in designing the...
VERITAS Cluster Server: High Availability for VMware ESX Virtual Machines
This paper explores using VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) as a clustering solution for providing high availability for applications running within virtual machines. VCS accomplishes this by failing over virtual machines...
Using VMware High Availability and VMotion With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Machines on Dell PowerEdge Servers
When running applications in a virtualized environment, such as VMware Infrastructure 3, there are new capabilities that are made possible by the virtualization layer. In some cases, it is these...



