Composite Active Cluster                 CIS Active Cluster Datasheet

The Composite Active Cluster Option allows you to substantially scale your Composite deployments and maintain continuous availability of your data services. The Active Cluster Option is native to Composite, providing several advantages over third-party alternatives including:

• Simplifying of your IT architecture,
• Minimizing the number of products you need install, and
• Reducing your information technology total cost of ownership.

CIS Active Cluster Option requires the use of a load balancer.  Active Cluster enables you to fulfill service level agreements by easily increasing capacity on demand, simplifying scaling, and improving manageability of your data services environment.

Clustering Composite Servers

Key capabilities include:

• Active/active clustering
  o Provides maximum scalability of the enterprise platform and allows companies expand capacity on-demand by simply adding new servers to the cluster
  o Minimizes downtime associated with hardware and application failure with automatic server failover
  o Enforces automatic metadata synchronization across all cluster nodes, achieving application and data governance
  
  
• Shared cluster cache
  o Improves overall cluster performance by coalescing redundant data source hits and reducing data latency
  o Reduces load on back-end data sources, improving availability and capacity of overall IT infrastructure
  
  
• Centralized metadata repository
  o Simplifies deployment of large clusters and improves manageability of the overall solution
  o Allows utilization of highly available data sources such as Oracle RAC to achieve end-to-end solution availability
  o Reduces costs of disaster recovery