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About Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)

A cluster is a collection of interconnected servers that appear as one server to the end user and to applications. Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) is Oracle's solution for high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance. It is based on clustered servers that share the same storage.

Oracle RAC is a single Oracle database installed on a cluster of hardware servers. Each server runs an instance of the database and all the instances share the same database files.

For more details about Oracle RAC, refer to the Oracle Clusterware Guide and the Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide in the Oracle documentation set of your release.

In this chapter, the following Oracle RAC example is used:

  • Oracle RAC database name: UCMDBRAC

  • Machine names: Server1, Server2

  • On each machine there is an Oracle instance of UCMDBRAC:

    • SID on Server1: RAC1

    • SID on Server2: RAC2

  • On each machine there is a virtual IP (Server1-Vip and Server2-Vip):

    • Server1-Vip is assigned to Server1

    • Server2-Vip is assigned to Server2

    The virtual IP is in addition to the static IP assigned to the machine.

  • The listeners on both servers are listening on the default port 1521 and support the database service UCMDBRAC.