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This test case shows the performance of Oracle 21c database instances using PowerFlex volumes running in AWS. The PowerFlex storage pool uses Amazon EBS with five x 2 TB volumes on each PowerFlex SDS instance. If EBS is chosen for the storage drives, the Instance is assigned five volumes, totaling 5, 10, 20 TB or 40 TB per instance. The EBS gp3 volumes have reserved throughput (1,000 MB/s) and I/O (16,000). With six PowerFlex SDS instances, the PowerFlex total and free storage capacity is 40 TB and 14 TB respectively. We have created four ASM disk groups for the Oracle database. The DATA disk group for storing database files, the LOG disk group for storing redo log members, FRA disk group for storing archive logs, and TEMP disk group for strong temp files.