Lone Star College
Lone Star College deployed an Elasticsearch cluster across two data centers
Summary
Lone Star College is recognized for deploying an Elasticsearch cluster across two data centers with full Elastic replication that is load balanced and serves five PeopleSoft application areas: Interaction Hub, Financial Management, Enterprise Learning Management, Human Capital Management, and Campus Solutions. All areas saw dramatic improvements in search response times after implementation.
Customer comments
At Lone Star College, we have successfully deployed an Elasticsearch cluster across two data centers with full Elasticsearch replication.
Implementing Elasticsearch for PeopleSoft applications has again placed Lone Star College as being an innovator and service excellence leader in higher education.
I believe we are the first Oracle customer to deploy an Elasticsearch cluster across two data centers. Five PeopleSoft applications currently use the cluster. They are FSM/HCM/ELM/IH/CS. They are load balanced by redundant F5 appliances. Lone Star’s data centers are located in two geographically different sites and have a response time of less than 1ms between them at a distance of approximately 38 miles. The data centers are connected by dual 20GB dark fiber, diverse links for a total network speed of 40GB network.
We saw a dramatic improvement in response time searches with Elasticsearch.
Campus Solutions uses Elasticsearch with PUM 6 for class search. When in production, this will offload those requests away from Oracle 12c RAC databases. We register over 100,000 students per semester. PeopleSoft Performance Monitor has registered over 40,000 concurrent users during peak usage on our Campus Solutions production environment.
