Data Sheet | 1 SIMPLIFY ORACLE HIGH AVAILABILITY

1 Sheet | 1 For many enterprises, ORACLE Database is the foundation for running the business. Mission-critical applications such as enterprise resource planning, transaction processing, and analytics rely on ORACLE Database often 24/7/365. Any risk of downtime, transaction disruption, or data loss is simply s AVAILABILITY solution is ORACLE Real Application Clusters (RAC). While clustering servers with a software solution is a common approach to enabling high AVAILABILITY , an ORACLE RAC deployment comes at a very high price in terms of both cost and complexity. Stratus offers the highest level of AVAILABILITY , but with a much simpler, lower-cost solution: Stratus ftServer systems.

2 With ftServer systems, you get five-nines AVAILABILITY for ORACLE Database right out of the box. Understanding the true cost of ORACLE RACO racle RAC is highly sophisticated clustering software, enabling you to run multiple instances of ORACLE Database on multiple servers, yet appear to end users as a single database. Should one server go down, the database continues to run on another. The problem with sophisticated software is that it comes with multiple price Benefits Continuous AVAILABILITY for ORACLE Database without the cost and complexity of clustering uptime with no special programming, tuning, or testing required Lower TCO as much as 28% compared to comparable cluster with ORACLE RAC Easy to install and manage runs Microsoft Windows , Linux , and VMware out of the box Automated uptime software detects, isolates.

3 And handles faults before they cause downtime 24/7/365 online monitoring proactively diagnoses and handles repairs, often before the business knows of the problemFirst, you have the licensing cost of ORACLE Database, which, depending on the size of your configuration, can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To achieve high AVAILABILITY , you will also have to spend tens of thousands of additional dollars on ORACLE RAC license fees. What s more, as the ORACLE environment expands you continue to incur both ORACLE Database and ORACLE RAC license fees for each additional ORACLE HIGH AVAILABILITYS tratus ftServer Systems for Mission-Critical ORACLE Database ApplicationsThe easy, low-cost alternative to ORACLE RAC for continuous AVAILABILITY and maximum performance data Sheet | 2 SIMPLIFY ORACLE High is also the people cost.

4 Without vigilant monitoring and tuning, most enterprises will find it difficult to achieve the full uptime potential that ORACLE RAC promises. Therefore, you will need to invest in hiring, training, and retaining highly skilled specialists who can install, configure, tune, test, and run the software. In addition, there is a less direct cost associated with ORACLE RAC in the form of degraded application performance. Because clustering requires synchronization across each instance of the database, computing cycles must be used to continuously move data back and forth between servers. The impact on performance can be substantial.

5 For example, a large financial services company that moved from ORACLE RAC to Stratus ftServer systems saw application performance nearly double. The Stratus ftServer solution for OracleStratus takes a completely different approach to delivering high AVAILABILITY for ORACLE . Instead of a complex cluster with multiple servers and database instances, ftServer systems are designed with a dual, redundant hardware architecture that eliminates any single point of failure while safeguarding data integrity and ensuring the continuous AVAILABILITY of your ORACLE ftServer systems, you get built-in fault tolerance and full support for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware vSphere operating systems.

6 Simply load ORACLE Database on an ftServer system and you instantly gain five-nines AVAILABILITY . There s no need for special programming or elaborate testing as with ORACLE RAC. And the environment is managed just like any other server except ftServer systems delivers absolute AVAILABILITY . Total cost of ownership analysisStratus conducted a detailed analysis, which showed the three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) for Stratus ftServer 6400 system running ORACLE Database Enterprise Edition to be 28% lower* than a comparable two-node cluster running ORACLE Database Enterprise Edition with an ORACLE RAC solution (Figure 1).

7 Figure 1 ORACLE Database Enterprise Edition on Stratus ftServer 6400 vs. Two-Node Cluster with ORACLE RAC* TCO analysis does not include cost of system administration, cost to implement the 2-node cluster, or any cost associated with ftServer systems, you get built-in fault tolerance and full support for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware vSphere operating Sheet | 3 SIMPLIFY ORACLE High AvailabilitySpecifications and descriptions are summary in nature and subject to change without and the Stratus Technologies logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd.

8 All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 2015 Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. All rights reserved. 151029 Putting ftServer systems to the testStratus ftServer systems are proven to deliver high performance and absolute AVAILABILITY in many of the most demanding application environments on the planet. So it s no surprise that an agency of the federal government chose ftServer systems to ensure high AVAILABILITY for its mission-critical ORACLE agency had previously relied on an ORACLE RAC solution, but it suffered multiple outages and could not meet service- level agreements (SLAs) for application response time.

9 Ultimately, the severity of these outages led the agency to evaluate alternative solutions, including the Stratus ftServer system. In an intensive performance test suite that bench-marked application response time, I/O, throughput, and transactions per second (TPS), the agency reported that the ftServer system hosting ORACLE Database far exceeded the results of the ORACLE RAC the agency ran the performance tests again while performing a surprise component removal from the ftServer system while ORACLE was actively running. Not only did the ftServer system continue running without missing a beat, it achieved the same performance metrics as previously recorded for the ORACLE Database environment.

10 The result: zero downtime; zero performance impact. That s the power of Stratus ftServer systems for ORACLE Database. About StratusStratus Technologies is the leading provider of infrastructure based solutions that keep your applications running continuously in today s always-on Technologies always-on solutions can be rapidly deployed without changes to your applications. Our platform solutions provide end-to-end operational support with integrated hardware, software and services. Our software solutions are designed to provide always-on capabilities to applications running in your chosen environment physical, virtualized or cloud.