If your business is expanding and you need to support more users accessing your databases, it’s time to act. Upgrading your database infrastructure with a flash storage-based solution is a smart way to improve performance without adding more servers or taking up very much rack space, which comes at a premium. The Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases addresses this by providing strong performance when combined with your existing infrastructure or on its own.
We found that adding a highly available DAAD solution to our database application provided up to 3.01 times the Oracle Database 12c performance, which can make a big difference to your bottom line. Additionally, the DAAD delivered 3.14 times the database performance when replacing traditional storage completely, which could enable your infrastructure to keep up with your growing business’ needs.
AWS EC2 M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated...Principled Technologies
At multiple instance sizes, M6i instances classified more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen processors or M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Consolidate SAS 9.4 workloads with Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 and Intel SSD t...Principled Technologies
A key to modernizing your data center is to consolidate your legacy workloads through virtualization, which can help reduce complexity for your business. Fewer servers require fewer physical resources, such as power, cabling, and switches, and reduce the burden on IT for ongoing management tasks such as updates. In addition, integrating newer hardware technology into your data center can provide new features that strengthen your infrastructure, such as RAS features on the processor and disk performance improvements. Finally, using SAS 9.4 ensures that you have the latest features and toolsets that SAS can offer.
Compared to a legacy server, we found that a modern four-socket server powered by Intel Xeon processors E7-8890 v3 with Intel SSD DC P3700 Series provided 12 times the amount of SAS work, nearly 14 times the relative performance, and a shorter average time to complete the SAS workload. Running 12 virtual SAS instances also left capacity on the server for additional work. Consolidating your SAS workloads from legacy servers onto servers powered by Intel Xeon processors E7 v3 and SAS 9.4 can provide your business with the latest hardware and software features, reduce complexity in your data center, and potentially reduce costs for your business.
A single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 solution delivered better value on a...Principled Technologies
If your company is running important business applications in VMware vSAN clusters of servers that are several years old, chances are good that you’re considering upgrading to newer hardware. Our testing demonstrated that our clusters of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 servers and clusters of dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers could both improve upon the database performance of a legacy cluster with five-year-old servers by more than 50 percent, with the Dell EMC cluster achieving 93.4 percent of the performance of the HPE cluster.
Get higher transaction throughput and better price/performance with an Amazon...Principled Technologies
In addition, the EBS gp3-backed EC2 r5b.16xlarge instance delivered a lower average transaction latency to offer more consistent transactional database performance than two Microsoft Azure E64ds_v4 VM configurations
By automating high-touch, routine tasks, Dell EMC OME integrations and plugins empower IT admins to deliver effective and efficient systems management from a single console.
Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database: Benefits of upgrading with NVMe ...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R920 provides strong performance in its base configuration with 24 SAS hard disks, but this performance gets an enormous boost when running the configuration containing NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs. In our testing, the upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R920 delivered 14.9 times the database performance of the base configuration. In addition, in testing the raw I/O throughput of the NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs, we saw as much as 192.8 times the IOPS as compared to the base configuration. Given that the storage subsystem is critical in servers and specifically database applications, the performance improvements offered by NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs can lead to great service improvements for your customers, making this upgrade a very wise investment.
AWS EC2 M6i instances with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors accelerated...Principled Technologies
At multiple instance sizes, M6i instances classified more frames per second than M5n instances with previous-gen processors or M6a instances with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Consolidate SAS 9.4 workloads with Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 and Intel SSD t...Principled Technologies
A key to modernizing your data center is to consolidate your legacy workloads through virtualization, which can help reduce complexity for your business. Fewer servers require fewer physical resources, such as power, cabling, and switches, and reduce the burden on IT for ongoing management tasks such as updates. In addition, integrating newer hardware technology into your data center can provide new features that strengthen your infrastructure, such as RAS features on the processor and disk performance improvements. Finally, using SAS 9.4 ensures that you have the latest features and toolsets that SAS can offer.
Compared to a legacy server, we found that a modern four-socket server powered by Intel Xeon processors E7-8890 v3 with Intel SSD DC P3700 Series provided 12 times the amount of SAS work, nearly 14 times the relative performance, and a shorter average time to complete the SAS workload. Running 12 virtual SAS instances also left capacity on the server for additional work. Consolidating your SAS workloads from legacy servers onto servers powered by Intel Xeon processors E7 v3 and SAS 9.4 can provide your business with the latest hardware and software features, reduce complexity in your data center, and potentially reduce costs for your business.
A single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 solution delivered better value on a...Principled Technologies
If your company is running important business applications in VMware vSAN clusters of servers that are several years old, chances are good that you’re considering upgrading to newer hardware. Our testing demonstrated that our clusters of single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R7515 servers and clusters of dual-socket HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers could both improve upon the database performance of a legacy cluster with five-year-old servers by more than 50 percent, with the Dell EMC cluster achieving 93.4 percent of the performance of the HPE cluster.
Get higher transaction throughput and better price/performance with an Amazon...Principled Technologies
In addition, the EBS gp3-backed EC2 r5b.16xlarge instance delivered a lower average transaction latency to offer more consistent transactional database performance than two Microsoft Azure E64ds_v4 VM configurations
By automating high-touch, routine tasks, Dell EMC OME integrations and plugins empower IT admins to deliver effective and efficient systems management from a single console.
Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database: Benefits of upgrading with NVMe ...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R920 provides strong performance in its base configuration with 24 SAS hard disks, but this performance gets an enormous boost when running the configuration containing NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs. In our testing, the upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R920 delivered 14.9 times the database performance of the base configuration. In addition, in testing the raw I/O throughput of the NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs, we saw as much as 192.8 times the IOPS as compared to the base configuration. Given that the storage subsystem is critical in servers and specifically database applications, the performance improvements offered by NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs can lead to great service improvements for your customers, making this upgrade a very wise investment.
Maximizing Oracle Database performance with Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SS...Principled Technologies
If your organization runs critical, high-demand databases in environments such as Oracle Database, strong performance is not an option: it’s a must-have. Additionally, getting that necessary strong performance out of a single server can be essential for running a space and cost-efficient datacenter. In the Principled Technologies labs, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R930 offered strong performance for such transactional databases when configured with SATA SSDs. When we upgraded the servers to Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs, performance doubled, increasing by 2.17 times, or 117 percent. If your datacenter needs a new powerhouse server, purchasing your Dell PowerEdge R930 with Intel NVMe SSDs for a cost increase of only 18 percent can double the performance you get from each server. This increases what your infrastructure can do within the same amount of space and lets you ultimately save money that would otherwise be spent purchasing additional servers and software.
Get insight from document-based distributed MongoDB databases sooner and have...Principled Technologies
With additional drive bays and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers handled more Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) operations per second than previous-generation servers and handled them more efficiently
Get improved performance and new features from Dell EMC PowerEdge servers wit...Principled Technologies
We put 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to the test with a variety of workloads to see the benefits and features your organization could expect from this latest offering
Create useful data center health visualizations with Dell iDRAC Telemetry Ref...Principled Technologies
Dell EMC™ has recently released Telemetry Reference tools for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). The Telemetry Reference toolset enables data center engineers to ingest and structure telemetry data streams for visualization with Elastic Stack software. This report serves as a how-to guide for setting up and configuring these components within your own environment.
VMware vCloud Automation Center, which has been renamed vRealize Automation as part of the vRealize Cloud Management Platform, automates the process of provisioning database virtual machines, and is designed by VMware to help IT without sacrificing control, security, or flexibility. Automating time-consuming processes has the potential to enable growth, improve service quality, and free IT resources for innovation and process improvement. As businesses continue to evolve and grow, DBAs and IT departments must be able to keep up with demand. Quick and easy access to self-service portals, a streamlined provisioning process that incorporates IT best practices and security policies, and fast delivery of VMs all attribute to avoiding delays and providing for increasing demands. DBAs and IT retain control of the content, upgrades, provisioning, and accessibility of the database VMs while still able to quickly provide virtualized environments to meet the needs of their business.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
Slow performance and unavailable critical applications can impinge a company’s progress. You can apply patches and updates to improve application quality and user experience, but these changes need to be tested in resource-intensive environments before deployment. Keeping these applications accessing data is vital, too, as on-premises events can put availability at risk.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. As we added VMs designed for test/dev environments, the production workload maintained an acceptable level of IOPS and achieved an average storage latency of less than a millisecond. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime and no performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. To run critical database applications of your company, consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F for your datacenter.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
Dell PowerEdge R920 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Migration and Benefits GuidePrincipled Technologies
The latest Dell PowerEdge R920 server is designed to provide highly scalable performance for large enterprises, with greater memory capacity, improved and expanded attached storage options, and processor architectures designed for high availability. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the perfect companion software to take advantage of the Dell PowerEdge R920’s impressive specifications. Upgrading has never looked more attractive, and with hardware/software upgrades must come data migration.
Migrating legacy database applications to the latest database technologies on newer Dell server platforms is a common task for businesses upgrading their hardware/software stack. As this guide shows, the process is straightforward and the cost benefits can be enormous. We calculated the savings attainable from multiple consolidation ratios, as well as how long it would take to pay off the replacement server. We found that a consolidation ratio of 13 to 1 could yield $531,725 in software savings, many times the cost of the replacement hardware itself. So not only will the business benefit from the massively-scalable current-generation Dell server technology paired with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 running SQL Server 2014, but you can save money in the process.
Each server configuration we tested enabled us to do more work than our baseline without risking performance. Compared to the total cost of a server, the initial cost of a processor upgrade is easily offset by the performance boost each processor drives. Each upfront investment means you’ll be able to meet rising customer demands better and, in some cases, gives your business room to grow.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014: ...Principled Technologies
As this guide has shown, installing and configuring a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 powered by the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases is a straightforward procedure. A key benefit from implementing DAAD 2.0 into your infrastructure is the ability to accelerate workloads without a complete storage area network redesign. This can be ideal for businesses that have snapshot and deduplication features within their software stack or are looking to improve database performance without investing in large storage solutions that may contain features they do not need. Consider DAAD 2.0 for your business—a storage acceleration solution that requires only 4U of rack space and can potentially give your database workloads a boost.
Boosting virtualization performance with Intel SSD DC Series P3600 NVMe SSDs ...Principled Technologies
When it comes time to make your server purchase or if you’re looking for an easy way to boost performance of existing infrastructure, consider upgrading your server’s internal storage. As our hands-on tests with a Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 environment running VMware Virtual SAN proved, Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs could increase virtualized mixed-workload performance by as much as 59.9 percent compared to SATA SSDs while allowing you to run a large additional number of VMs. When you improve performance for your virtualized workloads, your employees and customers will benefit. By increasing performance with Intel NVMe SSDs on your Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers, you can potentially slash wait times and do more work on your servers without having to expand your infrastructure with additional storage arrays, which can translate to happier users and a more efficient infrastructure.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
This document describes the steps to create a Vertica cluster on AWS. To run a Vertica
cluster on AWS requires creating Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs). The instructions in
this document apply to AMIs built with Vertica Version 7.2.x
The Vertica Community Edition is installed on the AMI. Community Edition is limited to
three nodes and up to 1 TB of data. Each AMI includes a Community Edition license.
Most of the remainder of this document describes the details of how to prepare your
AWS environment, launch AMI instances, and combine instances to create a cluster. To
set up your Vertica cluster on AWS, follow the detailed directions that follow, or use the
summarized set of tasks in Quick Start to Setting Up Vertica AWS
Strong Oracle Database 12c performance is vital to the state of your business. Virtualizing such important workloads requires a reliable and high-performing virtualization platform, along with the right servers and storage. EMC, Cisco and VMware offer proven technologies to meet this need. In addition, newer technologies like vFRC can have a positive impact on database performance by offloading some of the storage I/O onto the local server. This can be beneficial to the intended application and has the potential to improve all applications in a mixed workload environment over time by relieving pressure on shared storage resources.
In our tests, we found that the new release of VMware vSphere 5.5 provided a new feature, vSphere Flash Read Cache, that decrease TPC-H-like OLAP workload processing time by 14 percent. We also found that running these workloads on Oracle Database 12c with the new feature didn’t affect the ability of administrators to complete routine vMotion tasks; with vSphere Flash Read Cache enabled during a vMotion, the migration went smoothly and vFRC continued to cache after the migration completed. This means that the combination of VMware vSphere 5.5 platform, Cisco UCS B200 M3 servers, and EMC VMAX 10K storage was able to provide improved Oracle Database 12c performance using the new vSphere Flash Read Cache feature, which improves the reliability and database response times you deliver for customers and employees alike.
Cancer is a life-taking disease typically characterized by uncontrollable growth of cells. There are more than 100 types of identified cancers and all these types are classified according to the type of cells that are affected initially.
Maximizing Oracle Database performance with Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SS...Principled Technologies
If your organization runs critical, high-demand databases in environments such as Oracle Database, strong performance is not an option: it’s a must-have. Additionally, getting that necessary strong performance out of a single server can be essential for running a space and cost-efficient datacenter. In the Principled Technologies labs, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R930 offered strong performance for such transactional databases when configured with SATA SSDs. When we upgraded the servers to Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs, performance doubled, increasing by 2.17 times, or 117 percent. If your datacenter needs a new powerhouse server, purchasing your Dell PowerEdge R930 with Intel NVMe SSDs for a cost increase of only 18 percent can double the performance you get from each server. This increases what your infrastructure can do within the same amount of space and lets you ultimately save money that would otherwise be spent purchasing additional servers and software.
Get insight from document-based distributed MongoDB databases sooner and have...Principled Technologies
With additional drive bays and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 servers handled more Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) operations per second than previous-generation servers and handled them more efficiently
Get improved performance and new features from Dell EMC PowerEdge servers wit...Principled Technologies
We put 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor-powered Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to the test with a variety of workloads to see the benefits and features your organization could expect from this latest offering
Create useful data center health visualizations with Dell iDRAC Telemetry Ref...Principled Technologies
Dell EMC™ has recently released Telemetry Reference tools for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). The Telemetry Reference toolset enables data center engineers to ingest and structure telemetry data streams for visualization with Elastic Stack software. This report serves as a how-to guide for setting up and configuring these components within your own environment.
VMware vCloud Automation Center, which has been renamed vRealize Automation as part of the vRealize Cloud Management Platform, automates the process of provisioning database virtual machines, and is designed by VMware to help IT without sacrificing control, security, or flexibility. Automating time-consuming processes has the potential to enable growth, improve service quality, and free IT resources for innovation and process improvement. As businesses continue to evolve and grow, DBAs and IT departments must be able to keep up with demand. Quick and easy access to self-service portals, a streamlined provisioning process that incorporates IT best practices and security policies, and fast delivery of VMs all attribute to avoiding delays and providing for increasing demands. DBAs and IT retain control of the content, upgrades, provisioning, and accessibility of the database VMs while still able to quickly provide virtualized environments to meet the needs of their business.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
Slow performance and unavailable critical applications can impinge a company’s progress. You can apply patches and updates to improve application quality and user experience, but these changes need to be tested in resource-intensive environments before deployment. Keeping these applications accessing data is vital, too, as on-premises events can put availability at risk.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. As we added VMs designed for test/dev environments, the production workload maintained an acceptable level of IOPS and achieved an average storage latency of less than a millisecond. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime and no performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. To run critical database applications of your company, consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F for your datacenter.
Database performance and memory capacity with the Intel Xeon processor E5-266...Principled Technologies
The Dell PowerEdge M620 offers 24 memory slots, 50 percent more than the 16 slots offered by the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, which enables the Dell solution to provide greater performance while delivering memory error protection. We found that the Dell PowerEdge M620 solution, built on the new Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v2 Series, delivered 182.2 percent more database performance and 92.0 percent faster response times than the previous version Intel Xeon E5-2640 processor-based HP ProLiant BL460c Gen 8 solution, while providing 12.5 percent more available memory and error protection. The additional memory capacity of the Dell solution allowed us to engage FRM technologies and still have more overall RAM capacity compared to the 16-slot HP server. The Dell PowerEdge M620 offered maximum memory capacity and protection with Fault Resilient Memory to keep your database workloads running strong and available for your business needs.
Dell PowerEdge R920 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Migration and Benefits GuidePrincipled Technologies
The latest Dell PowerEdge R920 server is designed to provide highly scalable performance for large enterprises, with greater memory capacity, improved and expanded attached storage options, and processor architectures designed for high availability. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 is the perfect companion software to take advantage of the Dell PowerEdge R920’s impressive specifications. Upgrading has never looked more attractive, and with hardware/software upgrades must come data migration.
Migrating legacy database applications to the latest database technologies on newer Dell server platforms is a common task for businesses upgrading their hardware/software stack. As this guide shows, the process is straightforward and the cost benefits can be enormous. We calculated the savings attainable from multiple consolidation ratios, as well as how long it would take to pay off the replacement server. We found that a consolidation ratio of 13 to 1 could yield $531,725 in software savings, many times the cost of the replacement hardware itself. So not only will the business benefit from the massively-scalable current-generation Dell server technology paired with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 running SQL Server 2014, but you can save money in the process.
Each server configuration we tested enabled us to do more work than our baseline without risking performance. Compared to the total cost of a server, the initial cost of a processor upgrade is easily offset by the performance boost each processor drives. Each upfront investment means you’ll be able to meet rising customer demands better and, in some cases, gives your business room to grow.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014: ...Principled Technologies
As this guide has shown, installing and configuring a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 powered by the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases is a straightforward procedure. A key benefit from implementing DAAD 2.0 into your infrastructure is the ability to accelerate workloads without a complete storage area network redesign. This can be ideal for businesses that have snapshot and deduplication features within their software stack or are looking to improve database performance without investing in large storage solutions that may contain features they do not need. Consider DAAD 2.0 for your business—a storage acceleration solution that requires only 4U of rack space and can potentially give your database workloads a boost.
Boosting virtualization performance with Intel SSD DC Series P3600 NVMe SSDs ...Principled Technologies
When it comes time to make your server purchase or if you’re looking for an easy way to boost performance of existing infrastructure, consider upgrading your server’s internal storage. As our hands-on tests with a Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 environment running VMware Virtual SAN proved, Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs could increase virtualized mixed-workload performance by as much as 59.9 percent compared to SATA SSDs while allowing you to run a large additional number of VMs. When you improve performance for your virtualized workloads, your employees and customers will benefit. By increasing performance with Intel NVMe SSDs on your Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers, you can potentially slash wait times and do more work on your servers without having to expand your infrastructure with additional storage arrays, which can translate to happier users and a more efficient infrastructure.
A company’s success depends on critical application performance and availability. Upgrades and patches can improve application efficiency and user experience, but making the necessary changes requires resource intensive environments to test updates before deploying them. What’s more, these applications need to continue accessing data even in the event of an on-premises crisis.
Our Dell EMC VMAX 250F and PowerEdge server solution supported test/dev environments and production database applications simultaneously without affecting the production applications’ performance. Storage latency for the VMAX 250F peaked at a millisecond in our testing while IOPS stayed within an acceptable range. The solution also kept data highly available with no downtime or performance drop when we initiated a lost host connection for the primary storage. Consider the Dell EMC VMAX 250F array for your datacenter to support the critical database applications that drive your company.
This document describes the steps to create a Vertica cluster on AWS. To run a Vertica
cluster on AWS requires creating Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs). The instructions in
this document apply to AMIs built with Vertica Version 7.2.x
The Vertica Community Edition is installed on the AMI. Community Edition is limited to
three nodes and up to 1 TB of data. Each AMI includes a Community Edition license.
Most of the remainder of this document describes the details of how to prepare your
AWS environment, launch AMI instances, and combine instances to create a cluster. To
set up your Vertica cluster on AWS, follow the detailed directions that follow, or use the
summarized set of tasks in Quick Start to Setting Up Vertica AWS
Strong Oracle Database 12c performance is vital to the state of your business. Virtualizing such important workloads requires a reliable and high-performing virtualization platform, along with the right servers and storage. EMC, Cisco and VMware offer proven technologies to meet this need. In addition, newer technologies like vFRC can have a positive impact on database performance by offloading some of the storage I/O onto the local server. This can be beneficial to the intended application and has the potential to improve all applications in a mixed workload environment over time by relieving pressure on shared storage resources.
In our tests, we found that the new release of VMware vSphere 5.5 provided a new feature, vSphere Flash Read Cache, that decrease TPC-H-like OLAP workload processing time by 14 percent. We also found that running these workloads on Oracle Database 12c with the new feature didn’t affect the ability of administrators to complete routine vMotion tasks; with vSphere Flash Read Cache enabled during a vMotion, the migration went smoothly and vFRC continued to cache after the migration completed. This means that the combination of VMware vSphere 5.5 platform, Cisco UCS B200 M3 servers, and EMC VMAX 10K storage was able to provide improved Oracle Database 12c performance using the new vSphere Flash Read Cache feature, which improves the reliability and database response times you deliver for customers and employees alike.
Cancer is a life-taking disease typically characterized by uncontrollable growth of cells. There are more than 100 types of identified cancers and all these types are classified according to the type of cells that are affected initially.
Workstation heat, sound, and power usage: Lenovo ThinkStation S30 and the Del...Principled Technologies
A workstation that runs in a quiet and cool manner and uses less power is a great boon to workers and the companies they work for. In our tests, both when idle and when under load, the Lenovo ThinkStation S30 ran more quietly and at lower surface temperatures than the Dell Precision T3600 workstation and used less power. These findings make the Lenovo ThinkStation S30 an excellent choice for those who want to provide a reliable, comfortable work environment while using less power.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to PCIe storage us...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R930 provided strong performance with 22 SAS HDDs, but this performance improved when we replaced all of the drives with SAS solid-state drives. It improved further when we used a mix of HDDs and SDDs along with SanDisk DAS Cache. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight PCIe SSDs with SanDisk DAS Cache. The upgraded configuration of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with PCIe SSDs and SanDisk DAS Cache delivered 11.1 times the database performance of the all-HDD configuration. This makes the new Dell PowerEdge R930 a powerful platform with scalable storage options that can potentially translate into significant service improvements for your business and your customers, which helps in maximizing ROI.
In the Principled Technologies labs, the space-efficient FX2 solution enabled with SanDisk DAS Cache supported over four times as many VMs than the Dell PowerEdge R820 with CacheCade supported. Because each VM delivered greater performance, this FX2 solution delivered up to 43 times the total performance of a Dell PowerEdge R820 server.
Consolidating your Dell PowerEdge R820 servers onto with a new Dell PowerEdge FX2 enclosure with an FC830 server, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3, and FD332 storage blocks using SanDisk DAS Cache can give you a significant performance boost while saving precious data center space. A company can optimize precious data center space by replacing older servers with the Dell PowerEdge FX2 converged architecture, which takes up just 2U, and simultaneously achieve greater VM performance.
Database server comparison: Dell PowerEdge R630 vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD550Principled Technologies
We tested the OLTP performance of a 1U Dell PowerEdge R630, powered by Intel Xeon processors E5-2660 v3, running Microsoft Hyper-V and virtual machines running SQL Server 2014, and compared it to that of the Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 running the same software. For each server, we selected the maximum SATA SSD count that was configurable for each model. The Dell PowerEdge R630 outperformed the Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 by 14.9 percent and offered more than one and a half times the storage space for data in our configuration.
By selecting a server that handles more orders per minute and offers significantly more storage capacity potential than the competition, you get a not only faster, efficient experience for your database users, but also have the scaling potential for your storage needs ahead of your business growing.
File server performance on the Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd ...Principled Technologies
Many growing businesses employ a combination of HDDs and SSDs in their datacenters to provide storage for users. Software-defined storage additions, such as Windows Storage Spaces, can help improve workload performance by using tiering and caching technologies with enabling hardware. When combined with this software, the new Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730xd can provide storage support for the increasing workload performance of your business. We found that the PowerEdge R730xd provided support for 16.5 times more file server IOPS, and up to 94.7 lower latency, than the PowerEdge R720xd. If your business needs storage and performance to support its growth, consider the new Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
The PowerEdge R750 solution boosted performance compared to a previous-generation PowerEdge R740 with PERC 10
Conclusion
Companies increasingly turn to big data applications to solve business problems such as understanding customer habits and behavior, maintaining electronic health records, and detecting fraud. In a 2022 survey of executives, 97.0 percent had invested in big data initiatives, and 73.7 percent said their organizations had appointed a Chief Data Officer (CDO), up from 12 percent in 2012.
With so much data at play, storage becomes an essential consideration for companies as they select hardware platforms to run their vital workloads. Two primary requirements for storage are fast performance and redundancy. Companies seek storage that can quickly put actionable insights into the hands of decision makers. At the same time, it is a fact of life that storage media occasionally fails, and no company wants to risk the potentially very large expense of losing vital business data.
In our testing with a disk-intensive TeraSort big data workload, we found that a current-generation Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Broadcom-based Dell PERC 11 RAID controller with NVMe SSDs outperformed a previous-generation PowerEdge R740 server with a Dell PERC 10 RAID controller. The newer PowerEdge R750 solution completed the workload in 13.9 percent less time and with 16.3 percent better throughput, indicating that it could speed the delivery of insights to decision makers. With its PERC 11 RAID controller, it also offers RAID support for today’s speedy NVMe SSDs. Data-driven organizations must weigh the cost savings of putting off purchases of newer servers against the benefits of investing in those same newer, more powerful servers with RAID support for NVMe drives. Our testing shows that with the Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Broadcom technology-based Dell PERC 11 RAID controller, buyers need not choose between redundancy and high performance.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle Database 12c pluggable databases achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 was able to do nine times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server while the power and cooling costs dropped by 64 percent when compared to the nine servers it could replace. At 17 percent less, three-year software licensing savings were so dramatic that they paid back the new server costs in just six months, and over three years could save just under $300,000.
Apache Cassandra performance advantages of the new Dell PowerEdge C6620 with ...Principled Technologies
The PowerEdge C6620 with PERC 12 delivered lower latency and higher throughput than an HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 server with an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller
Conclusion
Data proliferation today is rapid, and its growth shows no signs of stopping. For businesses that can take advantage of that data, there is tremendous potential value. One recent McKinsey study notes that “companies that are using data-driven B2B sales-growth engines report above-market growth and EBITDA increases in the range of 15 to 25 percent.” With data flooding in so quickly and in so many different forms, however, companies need high-performing big data solutions to have a chance at utilizing that data effectively.
We tested the performance of two platforms with a read-intensive Apache Cassandra database system bigdata workload to assess which might be better suited to speedily deliver the insights decision makers need. Compared to an older HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 server with an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller, the new Dell PowerEdge C6620 with Broadcom-based PERC 12 RAID controller delivered faster read and update latencies and more than twice the throughput. This improvement in performance can help you glean more value from your unstructured data more quickly. If you’re watching your stores of unstructured data grow but are still leaning on older servers for your critical Cassandra workloads, it may be time for an upgrade.
Scalability: Lenovo ThinkServer RD540 system and Lenovo ThinkServer SA120 sto...Principled Technologies
Enterprises and SMBs need servers that can provide reliable performance with the ability to scale out to match growth. The Lenovo ThinkServer RD540 and the ThinkServer SA120 DAS array can run transactional applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server while providing scalable storage to support these critical workloads. We found that in the HDD configuration, the ThinkServer RD540 and ThinkServer SA120 DAS device provided support for 3,800 Exchange users. When we added just two Intel 400GB SSDs as a CacheCade volume, the ThinkServer RD540 and ThinkServer SA120 not only supported 5,300 users—a 39.5 percent increase—but did so while improving response time 33.9 percent.
By upgrading from the legacy solution we tested to the new Intel processor-based Dell and VMware solution, you could do 18 times the work in the same amount of space. Imagine what that performance could mean to your business: Consolidate workloads from across your company, lower your power and cooling bills, and limit datacenter expansion in the future, all while maintaining a consistent user experience—the list of potential benefits is huge.
Try running DPACK, which can help you identify bottlenecks in your environment and inform you about your current performance needs. Then consider how the consolidation ratio we proved could be helpful for your company. The Intel processor-powered Dell PowerEdge R730 solution with VMware vSphere and Dell Storage SC4020, also powered by Intel, could be the right destination for your upgrade journey.
Dell PowerEdge R930 with Oracle: The benefits of upgrading to Samsung NVMe PC...Principled Technologies
Strong server performance is essential to companies running Oracle Database. The new Dell PowerEdge R930 provided strong performance with 22 SAS HDDs, but this performance improved when we replaced all of the drives with SAS solid-state drives. It improved further when we used a mix of HDDs and SDDs along with a caching solution. We saw the greatest performance boost when we used eight Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs. The upgraded configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R930 with Samsung-powered NVMe PCIe SSDs delivered up to 13.9 times the database performance of the all-HDD configuration. This makes the new Dell PowerEdge R930 a powerful platform with scalable storage options that can potentially translate into significant service improvements for your business and your customers, which helps in maximizing ROI.
Speeding time to insight: The Dell PowerEdge C6620 with Dell PERC 12 RAID con...Principled Technologies
The new PowerEdge C6620 delivered better performance—both higher throughput and lower latency—than a previous-generation PowerEdge C6520 with PERC 11
Conclusion
The vast amounts of unstructured data that people and organizations generate daily have the potential to bring incredible value to companies that can utilize it quickly and correctly. Buried in the data are insights about consumer preferences, product performance, environmental trends, and more—but to access those insights at the speed of business, you need high-performing NoSQL databases. Aging servers may be holding you back from the full value of your data.
We found that the new Dell PowerEdge C6620 with Broadcom-based PERC 12 RAID controller can speed read-intensive Apache Cassandra database workloads compared to an older server solution. Faster read and update latencies and higher throughput, as we saw the PowerEdge C6620 deliver, can speed the retrieval, processing, and analysis of your unstructured data, enabling you to more effectively extract its value. To more fully utilize your data to inform your everyday business operations, consider the Dell PowerEdge C6620 with Broadcom-based PERC 12 RAID controller.
Dell PowerEdge R750 servers: Stronger Apache Hadoop big data performance with high availability
Conclusion
Organizations of all sizes have incorporated big data applications into their workflows, and rely on them daily. The enormous volume of information that companies now contend with drives the need for effective storage solutions. These solutions must support strong performance by delivering speedy access to data, which helps companies make critical business decisions in a timely manner. In addition, effective storage solutions protect data and keep it available even if individual storage components stop working.
We ran a disk-intensive TeraSort big data workload on two server-and-storage solutions. Both solutions used RAID for redundancy, but only one of them used high-speed NVMe storage media. The current-generation Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Dell PERC 11 RAID controller and NVMe storage outperformed the previous-generation HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server with an HPE Smart Array P440ar Controller. The Dell solution completed a disk-intensive TeraSort workload in 27 percent less time and achieved a 36 percent greater throughput rate. These results show that by selecting the Dell PowerEdge R750 server with a Dell PERC 11 RAID controller, companies no longer need to choose between the data protection that comes with true redundant hardware RAID solutions and the performance benefits of the fastest NVMe drives. The Dell-Broadcom solution lets companies have both.
Database performance: Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs. Lenovo ThinkServer RD650Principled Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 users, take note. In our datacenter, we found that the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family with the Intel SSD DC S3610 Series handled up to 27.9 percent more orders per minute than the Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 did. With three times the SSDs, the PowerEdge R730xd delivered better response times—up to 24.6 percent for application latency and up to 93.1 percent for disk latency—than the ThinkServer RD650. Getting more performance per server and better response times means you can give customers a better, faster ecommerce experience. This can allow you to buy, store, and power fewer servers, helping stretch your IT budget further.
As our tests show, investing in the powerful new Dell PowerEdge R920 running Oracle VM Server 3.2.8 with Oracle Database 12c VMs achieves cost savings without compromising performance. In our testing, a single Dell PowerEdge R920 could perform five times the work of a single HP ProLiant DL385 G6 server; the costs to power and cool the Dell PowerEdge would be 43 percent less than the five servers it could replace. The three-year software licensing costs of the Dell PowerEdge R920 server would be 22 percent lower than the licensing costs for the five-server solution. These dramatic savings—which come out to $212,091 for our single test environment — could grow to millions of dollars in a larger consolidation effort.
Dell PowerEdge C6620 server with Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC 12) ana...Principled Technologies
Dell PowerEdge C6620 server with Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC 12) analyzed Cassandra database data more quickly than an HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9 server with an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller
Detailed, up-to-the-moment data analysis is becoming increasingly important for those who make business decisions. In our hands-on tests, a Dell PowerEdge C6620 server with a Dell PERC 12 RAID controller handled more operations per second for data analysis Cassandra workloads than an HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen9
server with an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller. By selecting the Dell solution, you could give the decisionmakers in your organization earlier access to in-depth, actionable intelligence, by finding anomalies quickly in unstructured data.
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Investing in GenAI: Cost‑benefit analysis of Dell on‑premises deployments vs....Principled Technologies
Conclusion
Diving into the world of GenAI has the potential to yield a great many benefits for your organization, but it first requires consideration for how best to implement those GenAI workloads. Whether your AI goals are to create a chatbot for online visitors, generate marketing materials, aid troubleshooting, or something else, implementing an AI solution requires careful planning and decision-making. A major decision is whether to host GenAI in the cloud or keep your data on premises. Traditional on-premises solutions can provide superior security and control, a substantial concern when dealing with large amounts of potentially sensitive data. But will supporting a GenAI solution on site be a drain on an organization’s IT budget?
In our research, we found that the value proposition is just the opposite: Hosting GenAI workloads on premises, either in a traditional Dell solution or using a managed Dell APEX pay-per-use solution, could significantly lower your GenAI costs over 3 years compared to hosting these workloads in the cloud. In fact, we found that a comparable AWS SageMaker solution would cost up to 3.8 times as much and an Azure ML solution would cost up to 3.6 times as much as GenAI on a Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. These results show that organizations looking to implement GenAI and reap the business benefits to come can find many advantages in an on-premises Dell solution, whether they opt to purchase and manage it themselves or choose a subscription-based Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. Choosing an on-premises Dell solution could save your organization significantly over hosting GenAI in the cloud, while giving you control over the security and privacy of your data as well as any updates and changes to the environment, and while ensuring your environment is managed consistently.
Workstations powered by Intel can play a vital role in CPU-intensive AI devel...Principled Technologies
In three AI development workflows, Intel processor-powered workstations delivered strong performance, without using their GPUs, making them a good choice for this part of the AI process
Conclusion
We executed three AI development workflows on tower workstations and mobile workstations from three vendors, with each workflow utilizing only the Intel CPU cores, and found that these platforms were suitable for carrying out various AI tasks. For two of the workflows, we learned that completing the tasks on the tower workstations took roughly half as much time as on the mobile workstations. This supports the idea that the tower workstations would be appropriate for a development environment for more complex models with a greater volume of data and that the mobile workstations would be well-suited for data scientists fine-tuning simpler models. In the third workflow, we explored tower workstation performance with different precision levels and learned that using 16-bit floating point precision allowed the workstations to execute the workflow in less time and also reduced memory usage dramatically. For all three AI workflows we executed, we consider the time the workstations needed to complete the tasks to be acceptable, and believe that these workstations can be appropriate, cost-effective choices for these kinds of activities.
Enable security features with no impact to OLTP performance with Dell PowerEd...Principled Technologies
Get comparable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with or without enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State
Conclusion
You’ve likely already implemented many security measures for your servers, which may include physical security for the data center, hardware-level security, and software-level security. With the cost of data breaches high and still growing, however, wise IT teams will consider what additional security measures they may be able to implement.
AMD SME and SEV-ES are technologies that are already available within your AMD processor-powered 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers—and in our testing, we saw that they can offer extra layers of security without affecting performance. We compared the online transaction processing performance of a Dell PowerEdge R7625 server, powered by AMD EPYC 9274F processors, with and without these two security features enabled. We found that enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State did not impact performance at all.
If your team is assessing areas where you might be able to enhance security—without paying a large performance cost—consider enabling AME SME and AMD SEV-ES in your Dell PowerEdge servers.
Improving energy efficiency in the data center: Endure higher temperatures wi...Principled Technologies
In high-temperature test scenarios, a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server continued running an intensive workload without component warnings or failures, while a Supermicro SYS‑621C-TN12R server failed
Conclusion: Remain resilient in high temperatures with the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 to help increase efficiency
Increasing your data center’s temperature can help your organization make strides in energy efficiency and cooling cost savings. With servers that can hold up to these higher everyday temperatures—as well as high temperatures due to unforeseen circumstances—your business can continue to deliver the performance your apps and clients require.
When we ran an intensive floating-point workload on a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 and a Supermicro SYS-621CTN12R in three scenario types simulating typical operations at 25°C, a fan failure, and an HVAC malfunction, the Dell server experienced no component warnings or failures. In contrast, the Supermicro server experienced warnings in all three scenario types and experienced component failures in the latter two tests, rendering the system unusable. When we inspected and analyzed each system, we found that the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server’s motherboard layout, fans, and chassis offered cooling design advantages.
For businesses aiming to meet sustainability goals by running hotter data centers, as well as those concerned with server cooling design, the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 is a strong contender to take on higher temperatures during day-to-day operations and unexpected malfunctions.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a Kubernetes container-based generative AI workload effectively
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a generative AI workload effectively
Conclusion
The appeal of incorporating GenAI into your organization’s operations is likely great. Getting started with an efficient solution for your next LLM workload or application can seem daunting because of the changing hardware and software landscape, but Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors could provide the solution you need. We started with a Dell Validated Design as a reference, and then went on to modify the deployment as necessary for our Llama 2 workload. The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift solution worked well for our LLM, and by using this deployment guide in conjunction with numerous Dell documents and some flexibility, you could be well on your way to innovating your next GenAI breakthrough.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
For organizations running clusters of moderately configured, older Dell PowerEdge servers with a previous version of VCF, upgrading to better-configured modern servers can provide a significant performance boost and more.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Realize 2.1X the performance with 20% less power with AMD EPYC processor-back...Principled Technologies
Three AMD EPYC processor-based two-processor solutions outshined comparable Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based solutions by handling more Redis workload transactions and requests while consuming less power
Conclusion
Performance and energy efficiency are significant factors in processor selection for servers running data-intensive workloads, such as Redis. We compared the Redis performance and energy consumption of a server cluster in three AMD EPYC two-processor configurations against that of a server cluster in two Intel Xeon Scalable two-processor configurations. In each of our three test scenarios, the server cluster backed by AMD EPYC processors outperformed the server cluster backed by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. In addition, one of the AMD EPYC processor-based clusters consumed 20 percent less power than its Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based counterpart. Combining these measurements gave us power efficiency metrics that demonstrate how valuable AMD EPYC processor-based servers could be—you could see better performance per watt with these AMD EPYC processor-based server clusters and potentially get more from your Redis or other data intensive applications and workloads while reducing data center power costs.
Improve performance and gain room to grow by easily migrating to a modern Ope...Principled Technologies
We deployed this modern environment, then migrated database VMs from legacy servers and saw performance improvements that support consolidation
Conclusion
If your organization’s transactional databases are running on gear that is several years old, you have much to gain by upgrading to modern servers with new processors and networking components and an OpenShift environment. In our testing, a modern OpenShift environment with a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers with 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs outperformed a legacy environment with MySQL VMs running on a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers with 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors and 25Gb Broadcom NICs. We also easily migrated a VM from the legacy environment to the modern environment, with only a few steps required to set up and less than ten minutes of hands-on time. The performance advantage of the modern servers would allow a company to reduce the number of servers necessary to perform a given amount of database work, thus lowering operational expenditures such as power and cooling and IT staff time for maintenance. The high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs in this solution also give companies better network performance and networking capacity to grow as they embrace emerging technologies such as AI that put great demands on networks.
Boost PC performance: How more available memory can improve productivityPrincipled Technologies
With more memory available, system performance of three Dell devices increased, which can translate to a better user experience
Conclusion
When your system has plenty of RAM to meet your needs, you can efficiently access the applications and data you need to finish projects and to-do lists without sacrificing time and focus. Our test results show that with more memory available, three Dell PCs delivered better performance and took less time to complete the Procyon Office Productivity benchmark. These advantages translate to users being able to complete workflows more quickly and multitask more easily. Whether you need the mobility of the Latitude 5440, the creative capabilities of the Precision 3470, or the high performance of the OptiPlex Tower Plus 7010, configuring your system with more RAM can help keep processes running smoothly, enabling you to do more without compromising performance.
Deploy with confidence: VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdg...Principled Technologies
A Principled Technologies deployment guide
Conclusion
Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdge servers brings together critical virtualization capabilities and high-performing hardware infrastructure. Relying on our hands-on experience, this deployment guide offers a comprehensive roadmap that can guide your organization through the seamless integration of advanced VMware cloud solutions with the performance and reliability of Dell PowerEdge servers. In addition to the deployment efficiency, the Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge solution delivered strong performance while running a MySQL database workload. By leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge servers, you could help your organization embrace cloud computing with confidence, potentially unlocking a new level of agility, scalability, and efficiency in your data center operations.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
Conclusion
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. We found that a Dell PowerEdge R760 server cluster running VCF 5.1 processed over 78 percent more TPM and 79 percent more NOPM than a Dell PowerEdge R750 server cluster running VCF 4.5. It’s also worth noting that the PowerEdge R750 cluster bottlenecked on vSAN storage, with max write latency at 8.9ms. For reference, the PowerEdge R760 cluster clocked in at 3.8ms max write latency. This higher latency is due in part to the single disk group per host on the moderately configured PowerEdge R750 cluster, while the better-configured PowerEdge R760 cluster supported four disk groups per host. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Based on our research using publicly available materials, it appears that Dell supports nine of the ten PC security features we investigated, HP supports six of them, and Lenovo supports three features.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS ...Principled Technologies
In our tests, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS outperformed similarly configured solutions from Vendor A, achieving more IOPS, better throughput, and more consistent performance on both NVMe-supported configurations and configurations backed by Elastic Block Store (EBS) alone.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS supports a full NVMe backed configuration, but Vendor A doesn’t—its solution uses EBS for storage capacity and NVMe as an extended read cache—which means APEX Block Storage for AWS can deliver faster storage performance.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWSPrincipled Technologies
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger and more consistent storage performance for better business agility than a Vendor A solution
Conclusion
Enterprises desiring the flexibility and convenience of the cloud for their block storage workloads can find fast-performing solutions with the enterprise storage features they’re used to in on-premises infrastructure by selecting Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.
Our hands-on tests showed that compared to the Vendor A solution, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger, more consistent storage performance in both NVMe-supported and EBS-backed configurations. Using NVMe-supported configurations, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS achieved 4.7x the random read IOPS and 5.1x the throughput on sequential read operations per node vs. Vendor A. In our EBS-backed comparison, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered 2.2x the throughput per node on sequential read operations vs. Vendor A.
Plus, the ability to scale beyond three nodes—up to 512 storage nodes with capacity of up to 8 PBs—enables Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS to help ensure performance and capacity as your team plans for the future.
Get in and stay in the productivity zone with the HP Z2 G9 Tower WorkstationPrincipled Technologies
We compared CPU performance and noise output of an HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation in High Performance Mode to Dell Precision 3660 and 5860 tower workstations in optimized performance modes
Conclusion
HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation users can change the BIOS settings to dial in the performance mode that best suits their needs: High Performance Mode, Performance Mode, or Quiet Mode. In good
news for both creative and technical professionals, we found that an Intel Core i9-13900 processor-powered HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation set to High Performance mode received higher CPU-based benchmark scores than both a similarly configured Dell Precision 3660 and a Dell Precision 5860 equipped with an Intel Xeon w5-2455x processor. Plus, the HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation was quieter while running CPU-intensive Cinebench 2024 and SPECapc for Solidworks 2022 workloads than both Dell Precision tower workstations. This means HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation users who prize performance over everything else can do so without sacrificing a quiet workspace.
Open up new possibilities with higher transactional database performance from...Principled Technologies
In our PostgreSQL tests, R7i instances boosted performance over R6i instances with previous-gen processors
If you use the open-source PostgreSQL database to run your critical business operations, you have many cloud options from which to choose. While many of these instances can do the job, some can deliver stronger performance, which can mean getting a greater return on your cloud investment.
We conducted hands-on testing with the HammerDB TPROC-C benchmark to see how the PostgreSQL performance of Amazon EC2 R7i instances, enabled by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, stacked up to that of R6i instances with previous-generation processors. We learned that small, medium-sized, and large R7i instances with the newer processors delivered better OLTP performance, with improvements as high as 13.8 percent. By choosing the R7i instances, your organization has the potential to support more users, deliver a better experience to those users, and even lower your cloud operating expenditures by requiring fewer instances to get the job done.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
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Boosting performance with the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases
1. MAY 2015
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Dell Inc.
BOOSTING PERFORMANCE WITH THE DELL ACCELERATION APPLIANCE
FOR DATABASES
Anything you can do to help your customers place an order or access the
information they’re looking for more quickly improves your business. Just because you
have powerful database servers doesn’t mean you should overlook other ways to
support expanding user counts as your business grows.
The new highly available Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases (DAAD) 2.0 is
a standalone appliance built on Intel Xeon processors E5-2667 v3 that is easily
integrated into existing infrastructure. By eliminating OLTP database performance
bottlenecks with this storage appliance, you can avoid the costly process of replacing
sprawling legacy storage or revamping your entire infrastructure. A highly available
DAAD 2.0 solution pairs two servers for redundancy to reduce the possibility of costly
downtime.
In the Principled Technologies datacenter, we set up an Oracle Database 12c
environment on a Dell PowerEdge R720 server paired with a traditional external storage
array. We found that adding a highly available DAAD 2.0 solution yielded 3.01 times the
database performance. Replacing traditional storage completely with the DAAD solution
yielded 3.14 times the performance, so it can also help you reclaim precious datacenter
space that traditional storage takes up. If you need your servers to support an
expanding user count, our tests show that the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases
solution can give your important databases a significant boost.
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HOW IT WORKS
The Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 is a pre-integrated
server/software combination consisting of one or two Dell PowerEdge R730 servers with
Intel Xeon processors E5-2667 v3 , DAAD ION ION Accelerator® software, and Fusion
SX300 ioMemory® drives, which are high-capacity NAND Flash PCIe® SSDs. Available in
12.8TB and 25.6TB capacities, DAAD 2.0 supports Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and
Infiniband/SRP front-end fabrics. Designed to work with many database platforms and
front-end servers, DAAD makes appliance resources available to the application server
and uses I/O acceleration to optimize database requests, leveraging DRAM to improve
performance. Boosting database performance with DAAD can help you work within your
existing infrastructure, so you don’t have to purchase more disk or compute resources,
incur additional database licensing costs, or take up vast amounts of extra datacenter
space. To learn more about the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases, visit
en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-
solutions/m/oracle_db_gallery/20441362/download.
In this study we configured two 25.6TB DAAD appliance nodes as an HA cluster
pair. For information about the DAAD and our other test components, see Appendix A.
For detailed system configuration, see Appendix B. For step-by-step testing details, see
Appendix C.
WHAT WE FOUND
About the results
In our tests, we found that the highly available Dell Acceleration Appliances for
Databases solution worked as advertised: Adding the DAAD to our traditional storage
environment increased our Oracle Database 12c performance by 3.01 times, and
replacing the traditional storage solution with the DAAD increased performance by 3.14
times (see Figure 1).
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Figure 1: The highly available
Dell Acceleration Appliance for
Databases solution delivered
up to 3.14 times the database
performance of an
environment using traditional
storage.
While the Dell PowerEdge R720 with Intel Xeon processors E5-2650 v2
performed admirably with a traditional storage appliance, adding a highly available
DAAD to the existing environment provided a significant performance boost, and
replacing the traditional storage with the DAAD also yielded big performance
advantages. By using a high availability DAAD to improve database performance, you
can avoid having to make major changes to your database infrastructure as your user
demands increase with your growing business.
The ability of the DAAD solution to maintain high availability through redundant
pairs works to ensure that your databases keep going, even if a piece of hardware fails.
This is critical to a successful database infrastructure, because any downtime where
your hardware isn’t working can be very costly as business stops.
CONCLUSION
If your business is expanding and you need to support more users accessing
your databases, it’s time to act. Upgrading your database infrastructure with a flash
storage-based solution is a smart way to improve performance without adding more
servers or taking up very much rack space, which comes at a premium. The Dell
Acceleration Appliance for Databases addresses this by providing strong performance
when combined with your existing infrastructure or on its own.
We found that adding a highly available DAAD solution to our database
application provided up to 3.01 times the Oracle Database 12c performance, which can
make a big difference to your bottom line. Additionally, the DAAD delivered 3.14 times
the database performance when replacing traditional storage completely, which could
enable your infrastructure to keep up with your growing business’ needs.
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APPENDIX A – ABOUT THE COMPONENTS
About the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases 2.0 hardware
The 2U Dell PowerEdge R730 rack servers used in the highly available DAAD configuration are each powered by
two Intel Xeon processors E5-2667 v3, 384 GB of DDR4 RAM, and QLogic QLE2662 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs, providing
functional flexibility in the datacenter. The Dell PowerEdge R730 rack servers are each powered by four 6400 GB SanDisk
SX300 ioMemory PCIe SSDs to reduce storage bottlenecks.
With redundant power supply units, hot-swappable hardware, and Dual SDTM card for Failsafe Hypervisors, the
Dell PowerEdge R730 supports hardware high availability. The PowerEdge R730 comes standard with iDRAC8 with
Lifecycle Controller and Dell OpenManage, which all work to streamline management. For more details on the Dell
PowerEdge R730, visit http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r730/pd. For more details on the Intel Xeon
processor E5-2600 v3 series, visit www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/xeon-e5-
brief.pdf.
About the benchmark we used - HammerDB
HammerDB is an open-source benchmark tool that tests the database performance of many databases,
including Oracle Database, Microsoft® SQL Server®, PostgreSQL®, MySQL™, and more. The benchmark includes built-in
workloads derived from industry-standard benchmarks, such as a transactional (TPC-C-derived) workload and a data
warehouse (TPC-H-derived) workload. For this study, we used the transactional workload. The TPC-C HammerDB
workload is derived from TPC-C and as such is not comparable to published TPC-C results. For more information, visit
www.hammerora.sourceforge.net.
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APPENDIX B – SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Figure 2 provides detailed configuration information for the test systems.
System Dell PowerEdge R720
Dell Acceleration Appliance for
Databases 2.0
Power supplies
Total number 1 2 (HA pair)
Vendor and model number Dell 05NF18X02 Dell 0G6W6KX02
Wattage of each (W) 750 750
General
Number of processor packages 2 2
Number of cores per processor 8 8
Number of hardware threads per
core
2 2
System power management policy Performance Performance
CPU
Vendor Intel Intel
Name Xeon Xeon
Model number E5-2650 v2 E5-2667 v3
Socket type LGA 2011 FCLGA2011-3
Core frequency (GHz) 2.6 3.2
Bus frequency 7.2 GT/s 9.6 GT/s
L1 cache 32 + 32 KB (per core) 32 + 32 KB (per core)
L2 cache 256 KB (per core) 256 KB (per core)
L3 cache 20 MB 20 MB
Platform
Vendor and model number Dell PowerEdge R720 Dell PowerEdge R730
Motherboard model number 0M1GCR 0599V5
BIOS name and version 2.4.3 1.1.4
BIOS settings Defaults Defaults
Memory module(s)
Total RAM in system (GB) 128 384
Vendor and model number Hynix HMT31GR7BFR4A-H9 Hynix HMA42GR7MFR4N-TFT1
Type PC3-10600 PC4-17000
Speed (MHz) 1,333 2,133
Speed running in the system (MHz) 1,333 2,133
Size (GB) 8 16
Number of RAM module(s) 16 24
Chip organization Double-sided Double-sided
Rank 2Rx4 2Rx4
Operating system
Name Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® DAAD ION Accelerator
Build number 6.6 2.5.1-413
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System Dell PowerEdge R720
Dell Acceleration Appliance for
Databases 2.0
File system ext4 btrfs
Kernel 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64
3.0.101-0.15.1.6651.0.PTF-default
(x86_64)
Language English English
RAID controller
Vendor and model number Dell PERC H710P Mini Dell PERC H730P Mini
Firmware version 21.3.0-0009 25.2.1.0037
Cache size (GB) 1 2
RAID configuration 1 × RAID50 1 × RAID 1
Hard disk types
Hard disks (OS)
Vendor and model number Dell ST9146852SS Dell ST300MM0006
Number of disks 16 2
Size (GB) 146 300
RPM 15K 10K
Type SAS SAS
PCI-e SSDs
Vendor and model number N/A Fusion ioMemory SX300
Number of disks N/A 4
Size (GB) N/A 6400
Type N/A PCI-e
Ethernet adapters
Vendor and model number
Intel I350 Quad-port 1Gb Daughter
card
Broadcom® NetXtreme® BCM5720
Quad-port 1 GbE
Firmware 14.5.9 7.10.18
Type rNDC rNDC
Fibre Channel adapters
Vendor and model number
QLogic® QLE2672 16Gb Fibre Channel
Adapter
QLogic QLE2672 16Gb Fibre Channel
adapter
Firmware 03.11.09 03.11.09
Type PCI-e PCI-e
USB ports
Number 4 4
Type USB 2.0 USB 2.0
Figure 2: System configuration information for the test systems.
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APPENDIX C – CONFIGURING THE ORACLE DATABASE INFRASTRUCTURE
Configuration and test details
Traditional solution
For the traditional storage setup, we configured a Dell PowerEdge R720 server
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6. We then configured a standalone Oracle Database
12c Enterprise Edition installation with a 5,000-warehouse database leveraging Oracle
Automatic Storage Management, storing our data, logs, and backups on LUNs created
on the traditional storage appliance. For our storage area network (SAN), we attached
the R720’s Fibre Channel HBA as well as the traditional solution’s Fibre Channel HBAs to
a Brocade SW6505 Fibre Channel switch. See Figure 3 for the layout of this
configuration.
Figure 3: The traditional storage configuration we tested.
Combined DAAD/traditional storage solution
One of the benefits of the DAAD solution is being able to add it to your existing
database infrastructure. We combined the highly available DAAD with our traditional
storage solution, putting them into the same Fibre Channel SAN. We moved our backup
and data LUNs to the DAADs, and the logs LUNs to the traditional storage for this
configuration. See Figure 4 for the layout of this configuration.
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Figure 4: The combined traditional storage/highly available DAAD configuration we tested.
Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases solution
For the Dell Acceleration Appliance for Databases solution, we replaced the
traditional storage appliance with a highly available DAAD, storing our data, logs, and
backups on LUNs created on the DAADs. We then attached the DAAD’s 16Gb Fibre
Channel HBAs to our infrastructure’s Brocade Fibre Channel switch. See Figure 5 for the
layout of this configuration.
Figure 5: The highly available DAAD configuration we tested.
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Setting up storage on the DAAD
1. In a terminal, ssh into one of the DAAD nodes with the admin credentials.
2. Enter the following commands to create mirrored volumes across the DAAD nodes, an initiator group, and then 8
LUNs to be presented to the database server:
profile:create direct
volume:create -n ion01 -n ion02 fcion_v_a1 50% jbod_pool-1
volume:create -n ion02 -n ion01 fcion_v_a2 100% jbod_pool-1
volume:create -n ion01 -n ion02 fcion_v_b1 50% jbod_pool-2
volume:create -n ion02 -n ion01 fcion_v_b2 100% jbod_pool-2
volume:create -n ion01 -n ion02 fcion_v_c1 50% jbod_pool-3
volume:create -n ion02 -n ion01 fcion_v_c2 100% jbod_pool-3
volume:create -n ion01 -n ion02 fcion_v_d1 50% jbod_pool-4
volume:create -n ion02 -n ion01 fcion_v_d2 100% jbod_pool-4
inigroup:create ig_all 20:01:00:0e:1e:09:d6:1c 20:01:00:0e:1e:09:d6:1d
lun:create fcion_v_a1 ig_all -b 512 –a
lun:create fcion_v_a2 ig_all -b 512 -a
lun:create fcion_v_b1 ig_all -b 512 -a
lun:create fcion_v_b2 ig_all -b 512 -a
lun:create fcion_v_c1 ig_all -b 512 -a
lun:create fcion_v_c2 ig_all -b 512 -a
lun:create fcion_v_d1 ig_all -b 512 –a
lun:create fcion_v_d2 ig_all -b 512 -a
Setting up storage on the traditional storage solution
We created four 300GB data LUNs, four 100GB logs LUNs, and two 1,000GB backup LUNs, and configured them
for use over Fibre Channel.
Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Database 12c
We installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Dell PowerEdge R720 server and configured settings as we specify
below.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1. Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 DVD into the server, and boot to it.
2. Select Install or upgrade an existing system.
3. If you are unsure of the fidelity of your installation disk, select OK to test the installation media; otherwise, select
Skip.
4. In the opening splash screen, select Next.
5. Choose the language you wish to use, and click Next.
6. Select the keyboard layout, and click Next.
7. Select Basic Storage Devices, and click Next.
8. Click Yes, discard any data at the Storage Device Warning.
9. Insert your hostname, and click Next.
10. Select the nearest city in your time zone, and click Next.
11. Enter your root password, and click Next.
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12. Select Create Custom Layout, and click Next.
13. Select the install drive and click Create. (Create the following volumes and size: Root = 300GB, Home = 500GB, Boot
= 200MB, SWAP = 20GB)
14. Click Next.
15. Click Write changes to disk.
16. Select the appropriate Data Store Devices and select where the Bootloader will go, and click Next.
17. Select Software Basic Server, and click Next. Linux installation begins.
18. When the installation completes, select Reboot to restart the server.
Performing initial configuration tasks
Complete the following steps to provide the base functionality that Oracle Database requires. We performed all
of these tasks as root.
1. Disable SELINUX.
vi /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled
2. Set CPU Governor type.
vi /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed
GOVERNOR=performance
3. Disable the firewall for IPv4 and IPv6.
chkconfig iptables off
chkconfig ip6tables off
4. To update the operating system packages, type the following:
yum update -y
5. To install additional packages, type the following commands:
yum install -y acpid cpuspeed wget vim nfs-utils openssh-clients man
lsscsi unzip smartmontools numactl ipmitool OpenIPMI
6. Reboot the server.
reboot
7. Install additional packages with the following commands:
yum install -y
binutils
compat-libcap1
compat-libstdc++-33
compat-libstdc++-33.i686
device-mapper-multipath
gcc
gcc-c++
glibc
glibc.i686
glibc-devel
glibc-devel.i686
ksh
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9. Apply the changes with the following command:
sysctl -p
10. Edit the security limits configuration.
vim /etc/security/limits.conf
oracle soft nofile 1024
oracle hard nofile 65536
oracle soft nproc 2047
oracle hard nproc 16384
oracle soft stack 10240
oracle hard stack 32768
grid - nofile 65536
grid - nproc 16384
grid - stack 32768
oracle soft memlock 536870912
oracle hard memlock 536870912
11. Add the necessary groups and users.
groupadd -g 1001 oinstall
groupadd -g 1002 dba
groupadd -g 1003 asmadmin
groupadd -g 1004 asmdba
useradd -m -u 1002 -g oinstall -G dba,asmadmin,asmdba oracle
useradd -m -u 1003 -g oinstall -G dba,asmadmin,asmdba grid
12. Add the following lines to the .bash_profile file for the oracle user:
export TMP=/tmp
export TMPDIR=$TMP
export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=hostname
export ORACLE_UNQNAME=ORCL
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export GRID_HOME=/u01/app/12.1.0/grid
export DB_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1
export ORACLE_HOME=$DB_HOME
export ORACLE_SID=orcl
export ORACLE_TERM=xterm
export BASE_PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$BASE_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
export
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib
13. Add the following lines to the .bash_profile file for the grid user:
export TMP=/tmp
export TMPDIR=$TMP
export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=hostname
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/grid
export GRID_HOME=/u01/app/12.1.0/grid
export ORACLE_HOME=$GRID_HOME
export ORACLE_SID=+ASM1
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export ORACLE_TERM=xterm
export BASE_PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$BASE_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
export
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib
14. Create the following directories, and assign the following permissions.
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
mkdir /u01/app/grid
chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app
chmod -R g+w /u01/app
15. Create passwords for the oracle and grid accounts with passwd.
16. Edit the hosts file.
vim /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 R720 R720.localhost.localdomain localhost
localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 R720 R720.localhost.localdomain localhost
localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
17. Edit the /etc/fstab file.
vim /etc/fstab
Adding this line:
tmpf /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=89G 0 0
18. Edit the 90-nproc.conf file.
vim /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf
Modifying this line:
* soft nproc 1024
To reflect this change:
* - nproc 16384
19. Download ION Tuner from Fusion-Io and install with rpm -i iontuner_1.1.0_1.el6.noarch.rpm.
This is available to download from www.fusionio.com/files/ion-optimization-scripts.
20. Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
Append this to the kernel line:
intel_idle.max_cstate=0 processor.max_cstate=0
21. Enable the multipath configuration file and start the multipath daemon:
mpathconf --enable --with_multipathd y
22. For the DAAD configurations, edit /etc/multipath.conf to add the following:
vim /etc/multipath.conf
defaults {
user_friendly_names yes
queue_without_daemon no
}
devices {
device {
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vendor "FUSIONIO"
features " 3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries 50"
hardware_handler "1 alua" path_grouping_policy
group_by_prio path_selector "queue-length 0"
failback immediate
path_checker tur
prio alua
fast_io_fail_tmo 15
dev_loss_tmo 60
}
}
23. Perform a Loop Initialization Protocol and rescan the Fibre Channel interconnects with echo "1" >
/sys/class/fc_host/hostX/issue_lip, replacing X with each of the hosts being used on the system.
24. Restart the multipath service with service multipathd restart.
25. Verify that multipath is working with multipath -ll.
26. Create a primary partition with the fdisk utility on each multipath disk with the following:
a. fdisk /dev/mapper/mpathX, where X is the identifier of the disk in question.
b. n
c. p
d. 1
e. 1
f. Press Enter.
g. w
27. Reboot the server to make the kernel use the new table.
28. Edit the scsi_id file.
echo "options=-g" > /etc/scsi_id.config
Providing LUNs to ASM
We used the steps below to configure the multipathed storage LUNs prior to setting up ASM.
1. Edit the 99-oracle-asmdevices rules file.
vim /etc/udev/rules.d/99-oracle-asmdevices.rules
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-26230373534643030",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADdata1", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-26565316265346439",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADdata2", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-23261306136633365",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADdata3", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-23436316433663237",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADdata4", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-26235623336316364",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADdata5", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-26364393665633631",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADdata6", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-26539376463663337",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADlogs1", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-23736666233353565",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/DAADlogs2", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
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KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-23534343539323132",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALdata1", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e6939",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALdata2", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e6941",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALdata3", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e6943",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALdata4", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e6945",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALlogs1", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e6947",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALlogs2", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e6949",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALlogs3", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e694b",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALlogs4", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba", MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e694d",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALbackup1", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba",
MODE="0660"
KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{DM_UUID}=="mpath-360a980004431455a345d4733696e694f",
SYMLINK+="oracleasm/TRADITIONALbackup2", OWNER="oracle", GROUP="dba",
MODE="0660"
2. Execute udevadm and start udev.
udevadm control --reload-rules
start_udev
3. List the ASM devices.
ls -l /dev/oracleasm/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADdata1 -> ../dm-17
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADdata2 -> ../dm-18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADdata3 -> ../dm-13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADdata4 -> ../dm-19
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADdata5 -> ../dm-14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADdata6 -> ../dm-20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADlogs1 -> ../dm-15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 DAADlogs2 -> ../dm-16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALbackup1 -> ../dm-10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALbackup2 -> ../dm-11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALdata1 -> ../dm-3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALdata2 -> ../dm-4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALdata3 -> ../dm-2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALdata4 -> ../dm-5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALlogs1 -> ../dm-7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALlogs2 -> ../dm-6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALlogs3 -> ../dm-8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 20 11:29 TRADITIONALlogs4 -> ../dm-9
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure for Standalone Server 12c
Prior to starting the steps below, we downloaded the Oracle 12c Grid installation and extracted it to the /grid
directory.
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1. Run the GUI installer for Oracle Database using the following commands:
ssh –Y grid@R720_IP_address
cd /grid
./runInstaller
2. Launch the Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation wizard.
3. In Software Updates, select Skip software updates, and click Next.
4. In Installation Options, select Install and Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server, and click Next.
5. In Product Languages, select English, and click the right-pointing arrow between the two selection panels to add
English to the Selected languages panel. Click Next.
6. In Create ASM Disk Group, set the Disk group name to DATA.
7. Click Change Discovery Path.
8. Enter /dev/oracleasm for the Disk Discovery Path, and click OK.
9. Check the boxes for the data disks, and Click Next.
a. For the DAAD-only configuration, select only the DAADs’ data disks.
b. For the traditional storage configuration, select only the traditional storage’s data disks.
10. In ASM Password, select Use same passwords for these accounts. Enter and confirm the password, and click Next.
11. In Operating System Groups, set Oracle ASM Administrator Group to asmadmin, and Oracle ASM DBA Group to
asmdba, and click Next.
12. In Installation Location, accept the default locations provided, and click Next.
13. In Create Inventory, accept the defaults, and click Next.
14. In Root Script Execution, check the box for Automatically run configuration scripts.
15. Select Use “root” user credential, and provide the root password. Click Next.
16. In Summary, review the information, and click Install to begin installation.
17. Click Yes to confirm using the privileged user for the installer.
18. In Finish, click Close to exit the installer.
Installing Oracle Database 12c
Prior to starting the steps below, we downloaded the Oracle Database 12c installation and extracted it to the
/database directory.
1. Run the GUI installer for Oracle Database using the following commands:
ssh –Y oracle@R720_IP_address
cd /database
./runInstaller
2. Launch the Oracle Database 12c Release 1 Installer.
3. In Configure Security Updates, uncheck the I wish to receive security updates via My Oracle Support checkbox. Click
Next.
4. Click Yes to confirm no email provided, and continue.
5. In Software Updates, select Skip software updates, and click Next.
6. In Installation Options, select Install database software only, and click Next.
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7. In Grid Installation Options, select Single instance database installation, and click Next.
8. In Product Languages, select English and click the right-pointing arrow located between the two selection panels to
add English to the Selected languages panel. Click Next.
9. In Database Edition, select Enterprise Edition, and click Next.
10. In Installation Location, accept the default locations provided, and click Next.
11. In Operating System Groups, accept the defaults, and click Next.
12. In Summary, review the information, and click Install to begin installation.
13. When prompted, follow the instructions to execute the scripts. Click OK when the scripts have completed.
14. In Finish, click Close to exit the installer.
Creating Oracle ASM disk groups for the database
1. Log into the system as the grid user.
2. Start the ASM configuration assistant, asmca.
3. On the Disk Groups tab, click Create.
4. On the Create Disk Group pop-up screen, enter LOGS for the Disk Group Name.
5. Select External (None) for Redundancy.
6. Select /dev/oracleasm/ for the Disk Path.
7. Select the logs disks.
a. To start with the DAAD-only configuration, select only the DAADs’ logs disks.
b. When switching to another configuration later, launch asmca again, and perform the Drop Disks and Add
Disks operations as necessary to achieve the correct arrangements.
i. For the traditional storage configuration, the DATA disk group should contain the traditional
storage’s data disks, the LOGS disk group should contain the traditional storage’s logs disks, and the
BACKUP disk group should contain the traditional storage’s backup disks.
ii. For the mixed configuration, the DATA disk group should contain the DAAD disks, the LOGS disk
group should contain the traditional storage’s disks, and the BACKUP disk group should still contain
the traditional storage’s backup disks.
iii. For the DAAD-only configuration, the DATA disk group should contain six of the DAAD disks, the
LOGS disk group should contain the other two DAAD disks, and the BACKUP disk group should still
contain the traditional storage’s backup disks.
8. Click OK to create the LOGS disk group, and click OK on the completed-task pop-up screen.
9. Repeat steps 4-8 to create a BACKUP disk group with the remaining BACKUP disks.
10. Click Exit to close the ASM configuration assistant.
Creating the Oracle Database (using DBCA)
1. Log into the system as the oracle user.
2. Launch the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA).
3. In Database Operations, select Create Database, and click Next.
4. In Creation Mode, select Advanced Mode, and click Next.
5. In Database Template, select the Template for General Purpose or Transaction Processing, and click Next.
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6. If prompted about continuing without upgrade, click Yes.
7. In Database Identification, type orcl for the Global Database Name.
8. Type orcl for the SID. Click Next.
9. In Management Options, select Configure Enterprise Manager (EM) Database Express. Click Next.
10. In Database Credentials, select Use the Same Administrative Password for All Accounts.
11. Enter and confirm the administrative password, and click Next.
12. In Network Configuration, check the boxes for all listeners, and click Next.
13. In Storage Locations, select ASM for Database Storage Type.
14. Select User Common Location for All Database Files, and type +DATA into the Database Files Location field.
15. Select ASM for Recovery files Storage Type.
16. Specify Fast Recovery Area. Type +BACKUP in the Fast Recovery Area field.
17. Set the Fast Recovery Area size to 1850 GB, and click Next.
18. In Database Options, accept the defaults, and click Next.
19. In Initialization Parameters and under typical settings, set the Memory Size to 40%, and click Next.
20. In Creation Options, select Create Database.
21. Click Next.
22. Review the Summary. To complete the database creation, click Finish.
23. Review the information on the screen, and click Exit.
24. To exit the DBCA, click Close.
Configuring the Oracle Tablespace and redo logs
Alter the tablespace and redo logs as follows:
ALTER DATABASE ADD LOGFILE GROUP 4 ( '/tmp/temp1.log' ) SIZE 50M;
ALTER DATABASE ADD LOGFILE GROUP 5 ( '/tmp/temp2.log' ) SIZE 50M;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM CHECKPOINT;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 1;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 2;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 3;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM CHECKPOINT;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 1;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 2;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 3;
-- DELETE LOGS IN ASM HERE --
ALTER DATABASE ADD LOGFILE GROUP 1 ( '+LOGS/ORCL/ONLINELOG/redo01.log' ) SIZE 20G;
ALTER DATABASE ADD LOGFILE GROUP 2 ( '+LOGS/ORCL/ONLINELOG/redo02.log' ) SIZE 20G;
ALTER DATABASE ADD LOGFILE GROUP 3 ( '+LOGS/ORCL/ONLINELOG/redo03.log' ) SIZE 20G;
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ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM CHECKPOINT;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 4;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 5;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE;
ALTER SYSTEM CHECKPOINT;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 4;
ALTER DATABASE DROP LOGFILE GROUP 5;
HOST rm -f /tmp/temp*.log
CREATE BIGFILE TABLESPACE "TPCC"
DATAFILE '+DATA/orcl/tpcc.dbf' SIZE 400G AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 1G
BLOCKSIZE 8K
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;
CREATE BIGFILE TABLESPACE "TPCC_OL"
DATAFILE '+DATA/orcl/tpcc_ol.dbf' SIZE 150G AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 1G
BLOCKSIZE 16K
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE
SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;
ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+DATA/ORCL/DATAFILE/UNDOTBS1.260.873465895' RESIZE
32760M;
Configuring the Oracle pfile
Alter the Oracle pfile as follows:
orcl.__oracle_base='/u01/app/oracle'#ORACLE_BASE set from environment
_enable_NUMA_support=TRUE
_kgl_hot_object_copies=2
_shared_io_pool_size=512m
audit_file_dest='/u01/app/oracle/admin/orcl/adump'
audit_trail='NONE'
compatible='12.1.0.2.0'
control_files='+DATA/ORCL/CONTROLFILE/current.261.873465981','+BACKUP/ORCL/CONTRO
LFILE/current.256.873465981'#Restore Controlfile
db_16k_cache_size=16g
db_block_size=8192
db_cache_size=64g
db_create_file_dest='+DATA'
db_domain=''
db_name='orcl'
db_recovery_file_dest_size=1850g
db_recovery_file_dest='+BACKUP'
diagnostic_dest='/u01/app/oracle'
disk_asynch_io=TRUE
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dispatchers='(PROTOCOL=TCP) (SERVICE=orclXDB)'
dml_locks=500
fast_start_mttr_target=300
java_pool_size=4g
job_queue_processes=0
large_pool_size=1g
local_listener='LISTENER_ORCL'
lock_sga=TRUE
log_buffer=536870912#log buffer update
log_checkpoint_interval=0
log_checkpoint_timeout=0
log_checkpoints_to_alert=TRUE
open_cursors=3000
parallel_max_servers=0
pga_aggregate_target=6g
recovery_parallelism=4
remote_login_passwordfile='EXCLUSIVE'
resource_manager_plan='FORCE'
shared_pool_size=3g
undo_management='AUTO'
undo_retention=1
undo_tablespace='UNDOTBS1'
use_large_pages='ONLY'
Setting up the HammerDB client
We used a dual-socket server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 for the HammerDB client. We followed the
installation steps at the beginning of this appendix to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and also installed the GUI. We
then installed the HammerDB client software.
Installing HammerDB
Download and install version 2.16 on the Red Hat client. We downloaded HammerDB from the following
location: hammerora.sourceforge.net/download.html. We installed HammerDB according to the installation guide
(hammerora.sourceforge.net/hammerdb_install_guide.pdf).
Installing HammerDB Oracle libraries
Complete the following steps on the application server.
1. Launch the Oracle Client Installer.
2. In Select Installation Type, select Administrator (1.8 GB) as the installation type, and click Next.
3. In Software Updates, select Skip software updates, and click Next.
4. In Select Product Languages, select English and click the right-pointing arrow located between the two selection
panels to add English to the Selected languages panel. Click Next.
5. In Specify Installation Location, accept the default locations provided, and click Next.
6. In Create Inventory, accept the defaults, and click Next.
7. In Summary, review the information, and click Install to begin installation.
8. In Install Product, follow the instructions to execute the scripts. Click OK when the scripts have completed.
9. In Finish, click Close to exit the installer.
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Configuring the database
We used the TPC-C build schema build options for Oracle inside HammerDB to build the database. We set the
following options in the build schema:
Oracle Service Name = R720_IP_address/orcl
System User = SYSTEM
System User Password = Password1
TPC-C User = tpcc
TPC-C User Password = tpcc
TPC-C Default Tablespace = tpcc
Order Line Tablespace = tpcc_ol
TPC-C Temporary Tablespace = temp
TimesTen Database Compatible = unchecked
Partition Order Line Table = checked
Number of Warehouses = 5000
Virtual Users to Build Schema = 20
Use PL/SQL Server Side Load = unchecked
Server Side Log Directory = /tmp
Running HammerDB
We ran HammerDB by filling in the appropriate information for the driver options. We tested with 10,000,000
transactions per user, a 20-minute ramp up time, and a 20-minute test duration. We used 101 virtual users with 0-ms
user delay and repeat delay. We used rman to back up the database before testing, and we ran restores between runs.
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