Contents

Case Study: Oracle Global IT and the Oracle Grid Operations Lifecycle

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

PART 1: BEST PRACTICES IN DATA CENTER OPERATIONS

What is Grid Computing?

Introducing the Oracle Grid Operations Lifecycle

The Fundamental Concept of Server Virtualization

Managing IT Assets on a Large Scale

PART 2: THE GRID OPERATIONS LIFECYCLE IN DETAIL

Step 1: Configure

Step 2: Provision

Step 3: Live Migrate

Step 4: Grow

Steps 5 and 6: Parking and Rapid Activation

Step 7: Grid Grow

Step 8: High Availability Failover

Step 9: DR Migrate

Conclusion

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