Best Practices When Deploying Linux on the HP ProLiant DL980 (updated December 2012)

Test Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (or
later) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 SP3/SP4 workloads with Hyper-
Threading (HT) 16
Disable x2APIC with Intel Xeon E-7
series processors 17
Verify 40-bit mode before OS
installation 18
Use NOOP in the I/O scheduler 20
Increase crash kernel size 20
Known issues and workarounds 20
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X and SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 11 SPX best
practices 21
Test Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X and
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SPX
workloads with Hyper-Threading (HT) 21
Enable 44-bit System Address Mode
with more than 1 TB Memory 21
Increase crash kernel size 23
Oracle database best practices 23
Test Hyper-Threading 24
Use HugePages 24
Enable Oracle NUMA optimizations 25
For more information 26
Documentation feedback 26