Clusters provide a solution if your business demands operational
systems 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
By using clustering, you can greatly reduce
the number and duration of unplanned outages and the duration of planned outages,
thereby ensuring that your systems, data, and applications are continuously
available.![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
The major benefits that clusters can offer your business are:
- Continuous availability
- Clusters ensures that your systems, data and applications
remain continuously available.
- Simplified administration
You can manage a group of systems as a single system or
single database, without having to sign on to individual systems. You can
use a cluster administrative domain to more easily manage resources that are
shared within a cluster. ![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
- Increased scalability
- Seamlessly add new components as your business growth requires.