Qlogic SANblade QLA2342L Supplementary Manual

Brand: Qlogic

Model: SANblade QLA2342L

Type: Supplementary Manual

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C A S E S T U D Y

Oracle

Data Access and Integration

[Clustered Availability]

Solution

SAN Components

QLogic SANbox2

™

-64 Switch

QLogic QLA234x HBA

EMC Symmetrix

Applications

Oracle E-Business Suite (11i)

Oracle 9i RAC cluster database

Oracle 9iAS clustered application servers

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server

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Oracle and QLogic have created a best-of-class partnership designed to

support their customers’ competitive edge by delivering information fast

and enabling a SAN infrastructure that adapts quickly to changing demands.

Showcasing the partnership at Oracle’s Enterprise Technology Center (ETC)

in Atlanta, Georgia, Oracle provides new levels of business intelligence with

Oracle E- Business Suite, while QLogic provides the pathways for information

to ﬂow through the organization—fast.

The Oracle E-Business Suite provides the most functionally-complete set of

business applications available today, using a single, uniﬁed data schema

and an out-of-the-box solution that adapts to the organization’s business

processes. The innovative approach of Oracle E-Business Suite eliminates

the need to build custom interfaces, improves integration, and offers

unprecedented scalability to handle growth. Because QLogic simpliﬁes the

networking process with the industry’s only end-to-end storage area network

(SAN) infrastructure, the QLogic partnership with Oracle brings unprecedented

solutions to centralized systems management for global IT environments.

QLogic produces the controller chips, host bus adapters (HBAs), network

switches and management software that work together to move data from

the storage device through the fabric to the server. With more than 15 years of

enterprise storage experience, QLogic delivers fast data access for the most

demanding business intelligence solutions.

The power of Oracle E-Business Suite and the scalable architecture of QLogic

Fibre Channel HBAs and switches offer unbeatable performance. In fact,

QLogic runs its own business using Oracle E-Business Suite. The QLogic

proven storage network architecture and the leading E-Business Suite from

Oracle team up to deliver high availability of hardware resources and mission-

critical enterprise data that you can count on.

“Using QLogic, we realized new levels of performance and scalability. Our test

engineers put the entire E-Business Suite with Oracle 9i RAC cluster database

and Oracle 9iAS clustered application servers through rigorous testing with QLog-

ic—and QLogic delivered on its promise to support data integration requirements,

moving all the right information at lightning speed.”

— Jim Olsen, Director of the Oracle Enterprise Technology Center

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C A S E S T U D Y

Deliver Business Intelligence with Oracle and QLogic

Both Oracle and QLogic know that your enterprise data depends on

getting the right business intelligence to the decision-makers who

need it every day. At the Enterprise Technology Center in Atlanta,

Oracle and QLogic engineers create and test real-world scenarios

that put the E-Business Suite to task on a highavailability SAN solution

Building on a winning combination of high port scalability and ease of

integration, engineers at the Enterprise Technology Center connected

the QLogic SANbox2-64 to an EMC Symmetrix storage solution. With

e-port compatibility between the SANbox2-64 and Symmetrix, the

Oracle E-Business Suite delivers its uniﬁed information architecture

faster than ever. Running Oracle 9i RAC and Oracle 9iAS with the

E-Business Suite across a 20-node Linux cluster, the QLogic

SANblade(TM) HBAs offer best-in-class performance and functionality

for demanding storage area networks, available in 2 Gb speeds. The

Oracle data schema stores information for all applications, ensuring

that everyone in the organization operates from the latest information,

each and every time.

Oracle 9i RAC allows multiple Linux machines to be clustered together

forming a single database, which is accessed by the E-Business Suite

application. This clustered database provides scalability and ensures

high availability of the database.

Oracle 9iAS allows multiple Linux servers to be clustered together

providing a highly-scalable and highly-available middle-tier

application environment.

Oracle E-Business Suite connects and automates the entire ﬂow

of business processes across both front and back ofﬁce operations,

streamlining the enterprise supply chain, from sales and marketing to

manufacturing, ﬁnancials, and human resources.

QLogic SANblade Fibre Channel HBAs are the most widely-

deployed host adapter solutions for server, networking, storage, and

clustering solutions.

QLogic SANbox Series is the world’s broadest and most innovative

line of Fibre Channel switch products. The QLogic SANbox switches

offer all the beneﬁts of both edge and Director technology in a highly-

scalable architecture.

With components like these in the Oracle-QLogic solution, availability

of enterprise business intelligence is always at its peak. QLogic and

Oracle set new standards for interoperability, data integration, and

enterprise-level performance.

©2003 QLogic Corporation. All rights reserved. The QLogic logo, SANsurfer and SANbox are trademarks of QLogic Corporation, which may be registered in some jurisdictions. All other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of

their respective holders. Information supplied by QLogic Corporation is believed to be accurate and reliable. QLogic Corporation assumes no responsibility for any errors in this brochure. QLogic Corporation reserves the right, without notice, to make changes

in product design or speciﬁcations.

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