Run Oracle OLTP workloads in HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1.5

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Introduction
Run your mission critical applications like Oracle in an HP Converged Infrastructure to provide a flexible platform for
deployment of your virtualized enterprise applications for today and the next decade. HP Integrity systems combine
years of trusted availability and resiliency with efficiencies of HP blade systems for the foundation of the world’s first
mission-critical converged infrastructure. HP Integrity systems simplify and unify IT with a common modular
architecture and management for workloads running on all servers from HP ProLiant x86 servers to HP Integrity
Superdome 2.
HP Integrity systems provide the following advantages:
• Always-on resiliency
• Dynamic optimization
• Investment protection and stability
These characteristics are crucial to meeting the needs of your most demanding workloads, such as online transaction
processing (OLTP) with Oracle databases. HP-UX vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines (VMs) provide a flexible
infrastructure to meet your rapid test and development environment cycles, as well as meeting the demands of
production workloads.
This white paper describes the performance benchmarking of the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1.5 while running
an Oracle OLTP workload on an HP Integrity BL890c i2 Server Blade. It explains the performance and overhead
measurements observed when deploying the applications with different configurations. The paper shows how HP-UX
vPars and Integrity VM v6.1.5 running on Integrity servers are well positioned to handle Oracle OLTP workloads,
whether it’s: Oracle workloads running on vPars with near native performance or Oracle in a virtual machine for
ultimate flexibility.