FlashGrid Cluster
for Oracle Failover HA on AWS
Failover HA for Oracle Databases on AWS
FlashGrid Cluster is a virtual appliance that leverages proven failover technology based on native Oracle Clusterware. It minimizes downtime resulting from infrastructure failures by automating failover. All components of the database infrastructure stack are extensively tested for compatibility, reliability, and failure handling.
Multi-AZ deployment protects against data center failures
Deploy database nodes across two availability zones to increase the resilience of your stack. The data is mirrored synchronously across availability zones. If a data center outage occurs, the system will automatically failover to the passive node in the second AZ, with zero RPO. For more information, see our architecture documentation.
Reduce engineering costs
Running a self-built database HA solution, such as Data Guard FSFO, requires committing engineering resources for the lifetime of the systems. Still, it will be hard to avoid mistakes and costly outages. Testing various loads and failure scenarios, validating software updates and configuration changes, and troubleshooting test failures and production failures – FlashGrid engineering and support teams do this for you. With FlashGrid Cluster, you can rely on our experience running mission-critical Oracle databases on AWS across many customer environments.
Proven configuration for Oracle on AWS
The reliability of a database HA architecture depends on the correct configuration of the VMs, disks, network, and operating system. Default configuration options are not suitable for HA architectures. FlashGrid Cluster uses configuration best practices that have been extensively proven for running mission-critical Oracle databases on AWS since 2017.
Active Reliability Framework
Infrastructure failures, configuration errors, and software bugs do happen. Do not let a storage failure or an accidental out-of-memory error take down your database service and disrupt your organization. FlashGrid’s Active Reliability Framework is a collection of runtime services, monitoring tools, diagnostic tools, and health checks that help you minimize the risk of failures and disruptions caused by failures.
Higher performance and larger capacity
FlashGrid Cluster is compatible with high-performance instances such as R6in, R7iz, R7i, R7a, U7i, and High Memory. Storage throughput can be as high as 12.5 GBPS. The high storage throughput and aggregation of multiple EBS volumes enables extra-large databases with 200+ TB of data.
Compared to Amazon RDS
FlashGrid Cluster enables automatic Failover HA for Oracle Database while allowing maximum flexibility and control similar to a self-managed Oracle Database on EC2. Extra-large databases up to 500+ TB. High storage throughput of up to 12500 MBPS. Full control of the OS and database software. Oracle licensing optimization with Dedicated Hosts or bare-metal EC2 instances. For more details, see this comparison table.
Automated deployment in 90 minutes
Reduce your project’s implementation time and risks. FlashGrid Cluster is delivered as a CloudFormation or Terraform template. FlashGrid Launcher lets you customize and deploy the template in your AWS account with just a few clicks. This saves time configuring storage, OS, and Grid Infrastructure software, and the deployment process is fully automated and repeatable, preventing human error.
Tasks automated with FlashGrid Launcher:
DBA friendly
Stay in control
24/7 Support
In the event that something goes wrong, it is vital to have immediate access to skilled engineers with proven experience in AWS infrastructure, Linux, and Oracle Database. FlashGrid’s 24/7 technical support covers the entire infrastructure stack, including:
Simple billing through AWS
FlashGrid uses AMIs listed in AWS Marketplace. The marketplace software fees are charged by the hour and include FlashGrid software license subscription and 24/7 support. For your convenience AWS handles billing and payment processing.
Pricing information is available on the AWS Marketplace product pages. You need to have your own license for using Oracle Database and its features (BYOL). For production deployments, we recommend having an Oracle Database support subscription.
