EMC Corporation has announced that Oracle has certified its Symmetrix enterprise storage subsystems as part of a complete cluster configuration to support the Oracle Parallel Server. Graham Prime, senior product manager at EMC SA, says the company worked in conjunction with Dell Computer to complete the Oracle programme. "This certification proves that EMC Symmetrix fully supports Oracle Parallel Server as part of a certified Dell cluster configuration." Oracle`s certification assures users that certain NT configurations will work with Oracle Parallel Server `out of the box.` "By using Oracle Parallel Server for [Windows] NT clusters Microsoft Cluster Servers (MSCS), processing power and storage capacity can simply be added as databases grow," he adds. "Multiple NT servers are also easily connected to a single Symmetrix storage subsystem to provide enterprise-class availability, performance and capacity storage." Kevin Walsh, vice president, Intel Technologies Division at Oracle, says the company`s work with EMC has ensured that its parallel database solution can scale to the highest levels. "As Windows NT databases grow in size and popularity, Oracle is working [with EMC] to certify that its databases can be easily deployed on NT clusters using EMC enterprise storage." The certification tests were conducted and audited in the Windows NT Technology Centre at Oracle`s Redwood Shores, California, headquarters. The configuration consisted of two Dell 6100 Servers with an EMC Symmetrix 3300 Enterprise Storage system running the Oracle database and the Oracle Parallel Server Option. Prime continues: "This certification is further validation that EMC Enterprise Storage and software play a critical role in the deployment of Oracle databases on NT platforms. The combination of Intel- based servers, Oracle databases and Symmetrix intelligent storage, provides a scalable NT solution. "EMC Enterprise Storage provides NT system administrators with a centralised storage subsystem which is easily scaleable, configured, simple to manage and capable of providing high levels of information protection."
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