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The following table describes the hardware and software configuration details of an Amazon EC2 instance used as PowerFlex SDC instance:
Hardware | Configuration |
EC2 instance type | c5n.9xlarge |
vCPUs | 36 (3.5 GHz all core turbo Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series (Skylake-SP) processor) |
Memory (GiB) | 96 |
root device volume (GB) | 100 GB (Amazon EBS) |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) | 50 |
Software | Version |
Operating system (AMI) | RHEL 8.4 |
PowerFlex SDC | 4.5.1 |
Oracle Database | 21c |
Benchmark Tool | SLOB 2.5.4 |
Note: The metrics in Table 7 are taken from the Oracle database statistics report (AWR). They are the actual performance metrics that the database experienced relative to IOPS and latencies.