This document discusses integrating Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and multitenant architecture with Oracle Data Guard. It explains that with RAC and multitenant, the container database itself is a RAC database, allowing pluggable databases to remain available even if an instance crashes. Services are used to control which pluggable databases are mounted and accessed on each RAC instance. While multitenant architecture provides benefits like simplified administration, it also means that in a Data Guard configuration, the entire container database must have the same role rather than individual pluggable databases.