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Dell/Oracle Best Practices for OracleAS
The following are some Best Practices for deploying Oracle Application Server 10g with
Dell hardware:
1. It is a best practice to distribute functions in middle tiers across OracleAS Farms.
For example, you could place J2EE and Web Cache components on one server,
Forms and Reports on a second server, and Portal and Wireless applications on a
third server. What makes all of these distributed components an OracleAS Farm
is that they share a common Metadata Repository. The main benefit of utilizing
OracleAS Farms is that load is distributed across more servers, so that higher total
throughput can be achieved.
2. It is also a best practice to achieve scalability of individual functions or sets of
functions in middle tiers through OracleAS clustering (or “cloning”).
3. When both OracleAS Farms and Clusters are implemented, this implies that
multiple servers will be used for middle tiers. It is a best practice to use multiple
small to medium servers to “scale out” middle tiers, rather than a few large
servers with several CPUs to “scale up.” This will tend to lead to more Dell
PowerEdge 2950 and 1950 servers for middle tiers, as opposed to Dell
PowerEdge 6850 and PowerEdge 6950 servers.