In last few months, more and more questions have come up about how to configure Oracle WebLogic Server to work with Oracle RAC. Oracle RAC 11 was released with enhanced features and some new support. Of interest, the release addresses the known XA limitations associated with the previous releases. Some of you have asked if it’s possible to make Oracle WegLogic Server 10.3 to work with Oracle RAC 11g.
We have created a sample and included all the detailed configuration and testing steps in a How-To here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/weblogic/howto/rac/index.html
Hopefully this will give you a good start and you will be able to do this your own following the configuration samples provided here.
Also, check out the white paper, which gives an overview of Oracle RAC, Oracle WebLogic Server and the details of Oracle RAC support configuration options in Oracle WebLogic Server JDBC multi data sources:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/weblogic/OracleWLS_RAC.pdf
Comments (5)
Hello Frances (nice name btw)
After looking the URL and the paper looks like the old Oracle recommendation for last few years when BEA and Oracle were competing and each wanted to move the "correct" connection method to their side it turns out BEA was right and Oracle was never right huh!?
Let me explain, for the last few years, in RAC and NON-XA, Oracle always recommended stick the whole JDBC connect strings including all rac nodes VIP and let the JDBC load balance and failover whereas BEA in their side was recommending using multiple datasource. I am not sure if you join Oracle when you was in BEA or you was already working for Oracle but this sort of movement is frustraing for the old Oracle ISV partners (not BEA's) because for example I have been working for a couple of partners for the last 6, 7 years and as an Oracle partner I was sort of advocate for Oracle recommendation and now this new paper is slapping my face in front of my customers! :-)
What I would like to ask is not about recommendations instead in the paper point out what are the advantages and disadvantages of using new recommendations and the old recommendations so the installed customer base who are using the Oracle recommendation can decide if they should move to the new reommnedations or not.
I know technology moves on and a recommendation is not forever but I think this paper is the consequences of Oracle's BEA adquisition and somehoe admitting their recommendation is wrong in the last few years.
Thank you
Alex
Posted by Alex_vaca | February 22, 2009 3:39 AM
Posted on February 22, 2009 03:39
Is there a way i can access version Weblogic Server 10 that can work on Solaris x86 platform?
Posted by Ajay | May 13, 2009 2:09 PM
Posted on May 13, 2009 14:09
Hi Alex,
Thanks for your comments. :)
Using Oracle RAC events and JDBC connection pool features,such as Fast Connection Failover (FCF) for failover and load-balancing was the right recommendation.
As the business strategy, we are recommending the customers to use Oracle WebLogic multi data sources to handle failover and load-balancing cases.
We will extend our HA/RAC story to include the functionalities of using Oracle RAC data/events and JDBC featrues with Oracle WebLogic Server in the future.
You may contact me directly if you have more questions regarding this topic. :)
Best Regards,
-Frances
Posted by Frances Zhao | June 1, 2009 3:47 PM
Posted on June 1, 2009 15:47
Oracle people, you need to learn to use hyperlinks. The links above should be clickable. Likewise, when you reference any Metalink articles they should always be clickable. We call that the "world wide web". Try it sometime.
Posted by Anonymous | June 17, 2009 7:40 AM
Posted on June 17, 2009 07:40
Oracle people, you need to learn to use hyperlinks. The links above should be clickable. Likewise, when you reference any Metalink articles they should always be clickable. We call that the "world wide web". Try it sometime.
Posted by Anonymous | June 17, 2009 7:41 AM
Posted on June 17, 2009 07:41