Oracle9iAS High Availability

Modern companies are increasingly turning to application server software as the foundation for their mission-critical business applications and web sites. As this trend continues, the reliability and availability of the application server itself becomes increasingly important.

Oracle9i Application Server includes advanced clustering features to keep critical applications up and running 24x7 on low-cost commodity hardware. Oracle9i Application Server offers Zero Unplanned Downtime and Zero Planned Downtime through the Fast Start Fault Recovery Architecture: in case an instance goes down, you can recover more quickly and gracefully. Oracle9i Application Server's high availability infrastructure includes Oracle9iAS Web Cache clusters, Oracle HTTP Server (Apache), and Oracle9iAS Containers for J2EE. In addition, Oracle9iAS Infrastructure can take advantage of Hardware clustering techniques to make it highly available.

FAQ:

  HTML Oracle9iAS Release 2 High Availability FAQ, JUL 2003

Certification Information:

  HTML Oracle9iAS Release 2 High Availability Certification Matrix, UPDATED JUN 2003

Whitepapers:

  ZIP

Oracle9iAS Backup and Recovery, UPDATED DEC 2003
PDF: Download just the whitepaper.

  ZIP

Oracle9iAS Infrastructure: Improved Availability with Sun Hardware Clusters, UPDATED AUG 2003
PDF: Download just the whitepaper.
Note: This same solution has also been tested and certified on Veritas Cluster Server 3.5 on Solaris 8.
Linux TAR: Download to implement this solution on Linux. See included README file for Linux specific instructions,
UPDATED AUG 2003
HP-UX TAR: Download to implement this solution on HP-UX. See included README file for HP-UX specific instructions, UPDATED AUG 2003

  HTML Middleware Architecture Series: Clustering strategies for J2EE Application Servers, DEC 2002
What are the consideration points architects need to keep in mind when clustering J2EE components? This paper discusses options for adopting strategies to make applications highly available using clustering technologies.
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Middleware Architecture Series: Designing for High Availability, SEPT 2002
Learn the rules to follow when designing J2EE applications for high availability, and make the most of the clustering, transparent failover, load balancing and other high availability features in Application Servers

  PDF Oracle9iAS: Firewall and Load Balancer Architectures, AUG 2002
  PDF CTO Summit: Oracle9iAS - Designing for High Availability, MAY 2002
  PDF CTO Summit: Oracle9iAS - Architecting for J2EE Performance, MAY 2002
  PDF Oracle9i Application Server: Availability, Scalability and Manageability of J2EE and Web Cache Clusters, MAY 2002
  PDF mod_oc4j: A technical Overview, MAY 2002
This paper about mod_oc4j describes (among other things) how to create OC4J clusters without using Infrastructure.

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