Manual

Consolidating Oracle Databases on the Dell PowerEdge R820 Server Using Oracle VM

Summary

Any server consolidation project must be preceded by a well-planned effort to predict the energy

consumption and performance capacity of the new platform as compared to the legacy environment.

In this study, we showed that the new PowerEdge R820 is an ideal platform for consolidation from

legacy PowerEdge 2950 environments. This is apt as the server supports the latest Intel Sandy Bridge

processor architecture, and comes with the latest features such as PCIe gen 3 supports, enhanced

memory support, and flexible network card support. We also showed the performance gains and power

savings that can be achieved with consolidation.

Customers running Oracle 9i or 10g RAC environments on legacy servers and storage can follow the

guidelines and procedures outlined in this whitepaper to consolidate power-hungry RAC nodes into

fewer, faster, and more energy-efficient nodes. The resulting legacy RAC node consolidation can also

drive down Oracle licensing costs, resulting in savings that you can use to fund additional backend

storage resources to improve average query response time, implement disaster recovery sites and

additional RAC testbed sites for application development and testing. The reduced number of nodes

does not compromise performance when paired with PowerEdge R820 servers. Instead, the result is less

cluster overhead, simplified management, and positive movement toward an objective of simplifying IT

and reducing complexity in data centers.

Specific TCO possibilities include:

 10:1 to 12:1 consolidation possibility

 50% Power Consumption Savings

 License fee savings from server consolidations

References

1. Dell PowerEdge R820

http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r820/pd

2. Dell Compellent

http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/555/campaigns/compellent-storage-

center?c=us&l=en&s=biz&cs=555&delphi:gr=true

3. Dell Oracle tested and validated configurations

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-solutions/w/oracle_solutions/1429.current-

release.aspx

Appendix

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