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The following tables describe the hardware components that were used for this solution:
Table 2. PowerFlex compute-only node
Components | Details |
Server | PowerFlex R6525 |
Processors | 2 x 24 AMD EPYC 74F3 24-Core Processor @ 3.20 GHz |
Memory | 512 GB, 16 x 32 GB 3200 MT/s |
NIC | 2 x Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN 25 GbE Dual-port SFP28 Adapter |
Components | Details |
Server | PowerFlex R640 |
Processors | 2 x 14 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6132 CPU @ 2.60 GHz |
Memory | 384 GB, 12 x 32 GB 2666 MT/s |
NIC | 2 x Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX 25 GbE SFP Adapter |
Physical disks | 10 x 1.92 TB (KIOXIA Toshiba KPM5XVUG1T92) |
Components | Details |
Server | PowerEdge R640 |
Processors | 2 x 16 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226 R CPU @ 2.90 GHz |
Memory | 192 GB, 12 x 16 GB 2933 MHz |
NIC | 2 x Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX 25 GbE SFP Adapter |
VM name | vCPU | Memory (GB) | vDisk (GB) |
vCenter | 4 | 19 | 1500 |
PowerFlex management platform installer VM | 12 | 16 | 500 |
PowerFlex management platform VM | 12 | 16 | 500 |
The following table describes the software components that were used in this solution:
Components | Details |
Dell PowerFlex | Operating system version 4.0.1 |
Hypervisor operating system | VMware ESXi version 7.x with vCenter 7.x |
Operating system for PowerFlex storage and compute-only nodes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 |
Oracle Grid infrastructure | Oracle Grid infrastructure 21c (21.3.0.0) with ASM |
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition | Oracle Real Application Clusters 21c (21.3.0.0) |
Benchmark tool | SLOB 2.5.4.0 |