Overview
Overview
Overview
HyperFabric is a HP high-speed, packet-based interconnect for node-to-node communications. HyperFabric provides higher speed, lower network latency and less CPU usage than other industry standard protocols (e.g. Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet). Instead of using a traditional bus based technology, HyperFabric is built around switched fabric architecture, providing the bandwidth necessary for high speed data transfer. This clustering solution delivers the performance, scalability and high availability required by:
•Parallel Database Clusters:
Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Oracle 8i Parallel Servers (OPS)
•Parallel Computing Clusters
•Client/Server Architecture Interconnects (for example, SAP)
•Multi-Server Batch Applications (for example, SAS Systems)
•Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
•Technical Computing Clusters
•Open View Data Protector (earlier known as Omniback)
•Network Backup
•Data Center Network Consolidation
•E-services
Notice of non support for Oracle 10g RAC
HyperFabric product suite was designed to optimize performance of Oracle 9i RAC database running on HP-UX clusters. With the industry moving to standards-based networking technologies for database clustering solutions, HP and Oracle have worked together to optimize features and performance of Oracle 10g RAC database with standards-based interconnect technologies including Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband.
To align with the market trend for standards-based interconnects, Oracle 10g RAC database is not currently supported on configurations consisting of HyperFabric product suite and it will not be supported in the future either. As a result, customers must switch to Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gigabit Ethernet or Infiniband technology if they plan to use Oracle 10g RAC.
Please note that configurations comprising HyperFabric and Oracle 9i continue to be supported.
