NOTE: Brocade ServerIron ADX Series switches have been certified in Oracle's load balancing interoperability labs. Oracle experts executed a variety of tests against Brocade switches. Contact Brocade for details about the testing, and to learn more about the benefits delivered by Brocade ADX switches when deployed in an Oracle application infrastructure.

Oracle Application Server is an industry-leading software platform that delivers business-critical Web services and applications. The Brocade ADX Series of application delivery switches features customized support for Oracle Application Servers to maximize the benefits of load balancing and application switching for Oracle enterprise and e-commerce customers. These high-performance switches are the leading choice for the world’s most demanding networks, providing increased availability, scalability, and security of business-critical applications.

Application Traffic Management

Brocade ADX Series switches measure server availability, load, response time, and user-configured performance metrics to efficiently distribute all incoming client requests to the “best” available server. The Brocade ADX Series increases application uptime, maximizes server farm utilization, and shields Oracle application servers from malicious attacks.

Always-on Availability for Application Servers

By performing sophisticated and customizable “health checks” on the servers and the Oracle Application Servers, Brocade ADX Series switches quickly identify downed resources in real time and redirect client connections to other available servers.

Capacity and Performance on Demand

Server capacity can be increased or decreased on demand without impacting the applications and client connections. When demand grows, IT engineers can simply “slide” in new server resources and increase the capacity and performance of the Brocade ADX switch without disrupting production traffic. They can then use the new servers for new client connections.

Application Layer 7 Content Inspection

Brocade ADX Series switches are application-aware and can inspect many types of application-level content to perform intelligent switching of client requests to appropriate servers. Application switching eliminates the need to replicate content and application functions on all servers, and optimizes overall resource utilization, application performance, and availability. Brocade ADX switches support switching based on broad content types, including URL, HTTP headers, HTTP cookies, SSL session IDs, and XML tags.

Server Connection Offload

With support for the "Server Connection Offload" feature, Brocade ADX switches reduce connection management overhead on the servers and dedicate their resources to application processing, which further improves overall performance and capacity of the server farms. On-demand and unlimited virtual server farm scalability eliminates the need for forklift upgrades, and dramatically improves the ROI on the server infrastructure. Downtime associated with security breaches and scheduled maintenance is eliminated, resulting in improved availability and a potential savings of tens of thousands to millions of dollars a year.

The Brocade ADX Series can deliver immediate ROI by helping to maximize the utilization of Oracle applications and server infrastructure, enabling existing server resources to support more users and significantly higher levels of application traffic.

• Data Sheets

  • Brocade ServerIron ADX Series 1000, 4000, and 10000 Switches (2.7 MB)

• Solution Briefs

  • Brocade and Oracle FMW SOA 11G Solutions (617.4 KB)

• Solution Guides

  • ServerIron ADX Validated Integration With Oracle Enterprise Manager (118.7 KB)