Chapter 11. Enabling RAC for EBS

Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is one of the key players in the Enterprise Resource Product (ERP) market along with SAP, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft. Corporate ERP systems provide the engine that powers the operations of large corporate global financial and manufacturing systems. As availability, performance, and data protection are even more critical in today's world of 24x7x365 ERP systems, the requirements for disaster recovery solutions such as Oracle Data Guard and Oracle RAC are even more critical for the Oracle E-Business Suite. Fortunately, Oracle EBS can be implemented with RAC and Data Guard, so that these systems remain online without costly downtime in the event of disasters such as earthquakes, power outages, and terrorist attacks.

The massive volumes of data processing performed by Oracle EBS environments pose a unique challenge in terms of overall performance requirements to satisfy business and operational Service Level Agreements (SLAs). With...