Running Oracle OLTP workloads in HP Integrity VM 4.3

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Abstract
The mission-critical converged infrastructure is the foundation for the next decade of computing. The newest line of
HP Integrity systems combines years of trusted Integrity resiliency with HP BladeSystem efficiencies. As the foundation
of the world's first mission-critical converged infrastructure,
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Integrity systems:
• Simplify and unify IT with a common, modular architecture from x86 to HP Integrity Superdome 2
And provide:
• Always-on resiliency—a secure and reliable infrastructure from CPU to solution
• Dynamic optimization—integrated management and virtualization to scale resources optimally
• Investment protection and stability—sustained innovation, decades of support life, and compelling value
To optimize their environment dynamically, many customers are considering deploying HP Integrity Virtual Machines
(VM), in their development or test and production environments, to run demanding workloads such as online transaction
processing (OLTP) with Oracle databases. With the introduction of the new Integrity servers (HP Integrity BL8x0c i2
Server Blade (or Integrity i2 blades), HP Integrity rx2800 i2 Server, and Integrity Superdome 2), customers have asked
what they should expect in terms of performance and best practices in deploying Oracle in Integrity VM on the new
Integrity servers.
Several scalability improvements were introduced in Integrity VM (version 4.3) that allow customers to deploy
larger-scale Oracle workloads, including:
• Virtual CPUs limits increased to 16 per VM
• Memory limits increased to 256 GB per VM
• AVIO storage device limits increased to 256 per VM
In this white paper, we present an Oracle OLTP configuration running in an Integrity VM on an HP Integrity BL860c i2
Server Blade, along with performance and overhead measurements achieved for that configuration. We demonstrate
that Integrity VM and the new Integrity servers are well positioned to handle Oracle OLTP workloads.
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