Stratus ztC Endurance® Fault-Tolerant Computing Platform with Oracle Linux OS
Simple, protected, autonomous approach to run business-critical Oracle Database Applications with no unplanned downtime
Business-critical Oracle database workloads require continuous availability and data integrity.
Traditional high-availability (HA) and fault-tolerant (FT) clusters introduce complexity and potential data loss during failovers, posing significant risks to business operations, especially at sites with limited IT staff or intermittent network connectivity.
The Stratus ztC Endurance computing platform with the Oracle Linux OS dramatically simplifies IT management and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) while maximizing compute reliability to support critical operations at the corporate edge or in the data center.
Oracle Linux OS on the Stratus ztC Endurance delivers a superior solution that achieves 99.99999% availability for Oracle Database workloads. This is accomplished through its built-in, fully redundant fault-tolerant architecture and the Stratus Automated Uptime Layer with Smart Exchange™.
Unlike complex clusters, Stratus ztC Endurance operates as a single, simplified system, providing a robust, zero-touch computing platform that ensures continuous operation and preserves data integrity for critical applications deployed anywhere.
Key features
99.99999% compute availability
Four redundant hot-swappable modules for serviceability
Intelligent, predictive fault tolerance with Stratus Automated Uptime Layer
Virtualization for workload consolidation and IT efficiency
Proactive health monitoring and zero-touch management
Multi-layered security
5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor performance
7-10-year serviceable lifespan
99.99999% reliability for Oracle Database Applications
Combining Oracle Linux with the Stratus ztC Endurance platform delivers optimized performance, unmatched availability, and significant operational efficiencies.
Continuous availability with no data loss: The platform’s fault-tolerant design eliminates downtime and protects data integrity. During a component failure, operations continue without interruption, and the full compute state is preserved, safeguarding in-flight transactions that could be lost in a typical HA cluster failover.
Workload consolidation for reduced complexity and IT footprint: Stratus ztC Endurance enables consolidation of multiple virtualized workloads onto a single compute platform, reducing hardware sprawl. Its single-system simplicity eliminates the need for complex clustering software, specialized scripts, and failover testing, simplifying management for both IT and OT personnel.
Optimized Oracle Database performance: Running Oracle Database on Oracle Linux provides access to performance-enhancing features like the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) and Database Smart Flash Cache support, ensuring applications execute with maximum efficiency.
Built-in hardware redundancy, one Oracle license: Stratus ztC Endurance meets Oracle's hard partitioning policies. The active/standby architecture of its compute modules ensures applications run on a single module at any given time, providing hardware redundancy with a single Oracle license.
Lower support costs: Consolidating Oracle workloads on a platform certified for Oracle Linux creates opportunities to streamline support contracts and reduce overall operational expenditures.
Supporting critical workloads from the edge to the data center
Stratus ztC Endurance is engineered to provide transparent fault tolerance for the most critical applications. The platform’s built-in redundancy and Automated Uptime Layer maintain a single system image for operating systems and applications, simplifying operations without compromising availability or data integrity. In the event of a component failure, the system automatically continues processing on the healthy module with no unplanned downtime or data loss. This stateful protection is critical for database operations, where preserving in-flight transactions is paramount.
The zero-touch architecture is ideal for remote edge locations where IT expertise is scarce, and network connectivity may be intermittent. Proactive health monitoring and simplified, hot-swappable components allow OT staff to perform service actions without specialized training, ensuring continuous operation. In the data center, Stratus ztC Endurance delivers the high-throughput, low-latency performance required for intensive database workloads while providing a simplified, resilient alternative to complex and costly HA clusters.
Advantages of running critical workloads on Stratus ztC Endurance
The Stratus ztC Endurance platform offers distinct advantages over traditional HA clustering solutions. Its single-system operation eliminates the need for failover scripting and the operational burden of managing a cluster, simplifying administration, and reducing the potential for human error. The platform’s ability to preserve the full compute state during a failover event provides stronger data protection than HA solutions, which often cannot protect in-flight data, leading to data loss and complex restoration scenarios.
This robust data integrity reduces business risk and improves operational agility, as upgrades and maintenance can be performed with greater confidence. The platform's capacity for workload consolidation significantly reduces both physical footprint and TCO. This functionality facilitates the efficient execution of demanding, real-time computational workloads. Additionally, the Stratus ztC Endurance platform offers powerful processing for customers looking to add AI capabilities, such as image classification and AI inferencing, to their database applications.
