Oracle RAC for SAP: Best Practices


	Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a supported solution for the database backend in an SAP installation. Using SAP with Oracle RAC provides high availability and scalability. The purpose of the following documents is to provide best practices on how to migrate an existing single-instance SAP installation to a multiple-instance Oracle RAC cluster database configuration with or without SAPCTL.

TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION

Configuration of SAP NetWeaver for Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters
Describes the implementation of RAC for SAP on Unix and Linux platforms.
SAP Netweaver / Oracle Database 10gR2 RAC on Windows 2003. A "Best Practices" Guide
Describes the implementation of RAC for SAP on Microsoft Windows.
Providing High Availability for SAP Resources (SAPCTL)
Describes how to use Oracle Clusterware to make the SAP Enqueue Service highly available.
SQL*Net Configuration for SAP Taking RAC as an Example
This white paper covers all necessary environment settings, configuration files, database parameters, and service definitions which are required to operate SAP with RAC.