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Oracle 12c Databases on

Hyper Converged Infrastructure

using VMware vSphere 6 T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R

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Oracle 12c Databases on Hyper Converged Infrastructure using VMware vSphere 6

Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

HPE Hyper Converged 380 family .............................................................................................................. 4

Solution overview ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Solution components ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Hardware .................................................................................................................................................... 6

Software ...................................................................................................................................................... 7

Application software .................................................................................................................................... 8

Test configuration and test scenarios ............................................................................................................... 8

Capacity and sizing ........................................................................................................................................ 10

Scale-up scenario ..................................................................................................................................... 11

Scale-out scenario .................................................................................................................................... 13

Consolidation scenario .............................................................................................................................. 14

Live migration of Oracle database using VMware vMotion ....................................................................... 14

Best practices and configuration guidance for the solution ............................................................................ 15

Analysis and recommendations ................................................................................................................ 17

Summary ....................................................................................................................................................... 18

Appendix A: Oracle Virtual machine configuration ......................................................................................... 18

Resources and additional links ...................................................................................................................... 25

About the Authors .......................................................................................................................................... 26

Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................ 26

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Executive summary

Target audience:

Document purpose:

Introduction






HPE Hyper Converged 380 family

Solution overview

Figure 1.






HPE Hyper

Converged 380

Cluster

HPE Hyper

Converged 380

Cluster

HPE Hyper

Converged 380

Cluster

HPE StoreVirtual VSA

ESXi Node

1

ESXi Node

2

ESXi Node

3

ESXi Node

4

HPE Hyper Converged 380 Cluster

HPE Hyper

Converged 380

Cluster

VMware

vSphere

6

HC 380 Nodes

Managemnt

VM

ESXi Network

Storage

Network

Oracle VM1

Oracle VM2

Oracle VM3

Oracle VM

Network

Oracle Load Generator

Servers

Oracle VM4

Figure 2.






Figure 3.

Solution components

Hardware

Figure 4.






Figure 5.

Figure 6.

Software






Application software

Table 1.

Software Version

Test configuration and test scenarios

Table 2.

Datastore VSA volume name Adaptive Optimization Size






Figure 7.

Figure 8.






Appendix B

Table 3.

Capacity and sizing

hammerdb.com/hammerdb_transactionintro.pdf


http://www.hammerdb.com/hammerdb_transactionintro.pdf





Scale-up scenario

Figure 9.






Figure 10.

Figure 11.






Scale-out scenario

Figure 12.






Consolidation scenario

Figure 13.

Live migration of Oracle database using VMware vMotion






Figure 14.

Best practices and configuration guidance for the solution

vMotion Start vMotion End






Resources and additional links

On all servers, the following BIOS settings were enabled:

For volumes created on HPE StoreVirtual VSA:

For VMware vSphere:

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2069356

Appendix B.

For the Oracle Database:

Appendix C

For RHEL 7.2:

Appendix D








Analysis and recommendations






Summary

Appendix A: Oracle Virtual machine configuration

Figure 15.






Reserve all guest memory (All locked)

Figure 16.






CPU Hot Add Enable CPU Hot Add

Figure 17.






Figure 18.






SCSI controller 0 LSI Logic SAS VMware Paravirtual

Figure 19.






VMXNET 3 Adapter Type

Figure 20.






Manage Storage

Round Robin (VMware)

Figure 21.

for i in `esxcfg-scsidevs -c |awk '{print $1}' | grep naa.*`; do esxcli storage nmp psp roundrobin

deviceconfig set --type=iops --iops=1 --device=$i; done






Resources and additional links HPE Hyper Converged systems

hpe.com/info/hyperconverged

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/convergedsystems/hyper-converged/pip.hyper-converged-

300.1008591219.html

http://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c05102727

http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-9000ENW


hpe.com/info/RA

hpe.com/servers

hpe.com/storage

hpe.com/networking

hpe.com/us/en/services/consulting.html

vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-oracle-databases-on-vmware-best-

practices-guide.pdf


http://www.hpe.com/info/hyperconverged

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/convergedsystems/hyper-converged/pip.hyper-converged-300.1008591219.html

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/convergedsystems/hyper-converged/pip.hyper-converged-300.1008591219.html


http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-9000ENW


http://www.hpe.com/info/RA

http://www.hpe.com/servers

http://www.hpe.com/storage

http://www.hpe.com/networking

http://www.hpe.com/us/en/services/consulting.html

http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-oracle-databases-on-vmware-best-practices-guide.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-oracle-databases-on-vmware-best-practices-guide.pdf





About the Authors

HS Siddalinga Aradhya, Oracle Engineer, HPE Bob Augustine, Lead Oracle Engineer, HPE Karen Dorhamer-Fadden, Lead Oracle Engineer, HPE Kannan Mani, WW Principal Product Manager/Architect – Enterprise Data Platforms, HPE Sudhir Balasubramanian, Staff Solutions Architect, VMware Don Sullivan, Product Line Marketing Manager for Business Critical Applications, VMware

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Scott Salyer (VMware), Joe Sullivan, Don Wilson, Kimberly Kato, Said A. Syed, Rudy Castillo, Jodie Jordanger and Janet Runberg (HPE)


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