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

Native and vPar/Integrity VM host configuration

The Integrity BL890c i2 Server Blade is configured as follows:

Hardware configuration

• CPU: 8 Intel Itanium Processor 9350s (1.73 GHz, 24 MB) 32 cores (4 per socket) HT = OFF at OS level and ON at

firmware level

• Memory: 256 GB

• Storage: One dual-port 8 Gb/s FC mezzanine card, each port connected to an 8 Gb/s FC interconnect module in an

HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure.

• Networking: One 10GbE LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) interface. All network virtual switches are created using AVIO.

The 10GbE interface settings are as follows:

– Large receive offload = on

– TCP segmentation offload = on

– Transmit checksum offload = on

– Receive checksum offload = on

– Multi-queue = 8

Software configuration

• HP-UX 11i v3 September 2012 Data Center OE

• HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1.5 bundles (VSP software bundle, BB068AA, and vPars/VM software bundle and

VirtualBase)

• Kernel tunable settings

– VSP automatically tunes the kernel with an appropriate set (not applicable for native).