FlashGrid Cluster is an engineered cloud system designed for database high availability. FlashGrid Cluster is delivered as a fully integrated Infrastructure-as-Code template that you can customize and deploy to your IaaS cloud account with a few mouse clicks.

• Run your most critical databases in Azure
• Highly available clustered database with 2, 3, or more nodes
• Proven Oracle RAC database engine
• Multi-AZ deployment for maximum availability
• Repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code deployment
• Performance optimized for the most demanding workloads
• 24/7 support

This VM image is designed for use with FlashGrid Cluster Launcher, an online tool that generates Azure Resource Manager templates in a few mouse clicks.

FlashGrid Cluster solves the problem of achieving strict uptime SLAs for mission critical databases and enables lift-and-shift migrations of existing Oracle RAC clusters from a traditional data center to the Azure cloud. Compared to "build your own" fail-over designs using various replication techniques, FlashGrid Cluster offers an engineered, well-tested, and repeatable solution based on proven Oracle RAC active-active database engine.

For a CIO, FlashGrid Cluster offers the most seamless approach for a complete move to the Azure cloud of application stacks that must have a highly available database backend.

For a DBA or a System Administrator, FlashGrid Cluster provides a familiar database, clusterware, and Linux OS environment that allows full control of database features, security, and patching.

FlashGrid Cluster uses the following Azure Cloud elements and features:

• Virtual Machines
• Managed Premium SSD disks
• Accelerated Networking
• Availability Zones or Availability Sets
• Azure Resource Manager templates