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Oracle RAC is one of the most predominant distributed enterprise database management systems available on the IT industry market. Oracle RAC is seen as a valuable solution for business-critical applications by many customers, including financial services, healthcare, education, media, governments, and more.
Dell PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure design to deliver elastic and scalable high-performance and capacity on demand. The Dell PowerFlex R6525 compute nodes featuring the AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors are capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as databases, data warehouses, and high-performance computing (HPC).
This paper details performance best practices for Oracle RAC databases that are deployed on PowerFlex R6525 compute nodes. It demonstrates linear scalability and high bandwidth for sequential workloads, and linear scalability and high IOPS while maintaining sub-milliseconds latency for transactional workloads.