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From retail to healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment and finance, business applications are becoming more intelligent and interconnected. This evolution is driven by advances in AI, machine learning, blockchain, and other technologies. Database applications like Oracle are no exception to this trend.
For decades, the Oracle database has been the backbone for operational data (OLTP) and data warehousing for reporting and some analytics (OLAP). As organizations look for new ways to unlock insights contained across multiple data types and data sources, Oracle relational database management systems (RDBMS) have responded with new capabilities that allow customers to do more with data and more effectively reap the benefits of the advanced applications that the database supports.
This places a greater emphasis on deployment of the database itself. We sought to determine the best way to configure your infrastructure to maximize performance, minimizes cost, and ensures optimal customer outcomes.
Optimal price for performance configuration depends on system architecture and deployment best practices. In this Dell Optimized Oracle Database Validated Design, we compare three PowerEdge server configurations with PowerStore storage to provide guidance on how to optimize your online transaction processing database workloads with Dell servers. The goal is to enable your business to quickly deploy Oracle databases without the complexities of selecting individual components of a database infrastructure.
The Dell Optimized Database Validated Design provides analysis from internal testing and insights into approaches to configuring your next database infrastructure. This white paper focuses PowerEdge configurations including CPU selection and memory that are key factors for Oracle databases.