Remora designing a complete red stack solution

Remora has been contracted to to provide architecture advice to develop a complete optimised solution for Oracle's eBusiness Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

Remora's team of engineers sized and delivered a complete solution using three SPARC Enterprise M4000 Servers for database workload. Oracle T-servers, including a T5440, two T5140's and one T5120 application servers were deployed for Oracle eBusiness and Oracle Fusion Middleware worloads.

Combining Oracle's server infrastructure and Oracle SPARC virtualisation technologies, a complete solution was provided for production, user acceptance testing and disaster recovery using Solaris Containers and Logical Domains.

Showing the scalability of SPARC

Remora provided Oracle Enterprise M5000 Servers and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition for the provision of a human capital management system for over 15,000 employees.

Constraining Oracle Database licensing was key to the final solution, achieved with the use of Logical Domains to minimise licensing costs.

Installation and operational mentoring

Remora provided an installation service with a difference for Ford Motor Company of Australia, for one of their Oracle Sun M5000 servers.

In addition to physically installing the system into the rack, commissioning it and checking correct operation, we had the opportunity to provide Ford staff with on the spot training and mentoring in the various methods of administering Dynamic System Domains (DSD) on the server.

DSD allows authorised staff to re-allocate system resources--while they are live--to different workloads, called domains, inside the server. It is one of several virtualisation technologies provided in Oracle products.

Each Domain may be regarded as an independent box-within-a-box from both a hardware and software standpoint. DSD can be administered either by a secure web interface, or by the command line from a console session.

We even uncovered an undocumented feature of the interface on the day, and were able to provide Ford with additional information about it.

SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server

Oracle’s SPARC Enterprise M5000 midrange server delivers high scalability, mission-critical RAS, and advanced virtualization in a compact 10RU space. The ability to mix generations of processors provides excellent investment protection.