Oracle Database, RAC, and MySQL

Many factors can slow or prevent user access to enterprise applications and data. Database maintenance, data replication, and scaling applications for globally dispersed users can all affect performance. In addition, providing mobile users with fast, remote access while protecting the increasing amounts of data that travel over the web has become more complicated. F5 and Oracle have worked together to create solutions for these issues. By using F5 products with Oracle Database, you can provide fast, consistent, and secure service to users, even under the most challenging conditions.

Benefits of F5's Application Ready Solution for Oracle Database

• Improved operations and agility.
  Use the network to monitor and service the database with ease and without disruption.
• Faster replication.
  Accelerate data replication over the WAN by up to 9x by compressing, deduplicating, and optimizing traffic.
• Global scaling.
  Architect applications and the database to simultaneously optimize the user experience and data integrity worldwide.
• End-to-end security.
  Provide comprehensive protection—from client, to application, to database—to secure data and the business.

F5 provides specific guidance to help you easily and successfully deploy F5 products with Oracle Database. For straightforward configuration, F5 offers custom-built policies and configuration objects designed specifically for Oracle Database technologies such as 11g, RAC, Streams, Data Guard, and Recovery Manager. F5 has tested products with Oracle Database and documented the results in best-practice deployment guides that show how to configure F5 products with Oracle Database. 

For database operations and management, BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) enables a quick response to outages, improves monitoring of database health, and offers new database management tools. For business continuity and disaster recovery, BIG-IP LTM with BIG-IP^® WAN Optimization Module™ (WOM) accelerates data replication and backups over the WAN, saves bandwidth, and helps your business meet operations and regulatory requirements. To help you build a globally distributed application and database architecture, BIG-IP^® Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM), BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP WOM, and VIPRION improve scale, performance, and user response time while adding redundancy and optimizing database replication. For application and data security, BIG-IP^® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) works with Oracle Database products to correlate application and database security events, unify security information management, and protect applications and databases from unauthorized access.