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