HyperFabric Configuration Guidelines

Overview

HyperFabric is a HP high-speed, packet-based interconnect for

node-to-node communications. HyperFabric provides higher speed, lower

network latency and uses less CPU 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 (e.g. SAP)

• Multi-Server Batch Applications (e.g. SAS Systems)

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

• Technical Computing Clusters

• HP Message Passing Interface (MPI) based applications

• OpenView Data Protector (earlier referred to as Omniback)

• Network Backup

•NFS

• Data Center Network Consolidation

•E-services

Notice of non support of 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