Performance Study of iSCSI in an OLTP-Based Oracle 9i RAC Database Environment With NetApp iSCSI Filers

Overview

An increasing number of applications demand high-availability combined with online scalability and bounded response times. The growing fields of electronic commerce, world-wide business, and telecommunications all require databases that are highly available for all kinds of operations at any time. This makes continuous computing availability an operational necessity in today's global economy. Downtime is no longer an option, whether it is unplanned (due to hardware or software failure) or planned (due to scheduled backup or system upgrade).