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A PowerStore 5000T storage array was used to validate best practices. The PowerStore 5000T is a cloud -ready storage array and offers enterprise-rich data services like snapshots, replication, and many other features in a small footprint. The PowerStore storage array is highly tuned and does not require much manual tuning by default. The PowerStore 5000T configuration used for these best practices included 21 NVMe drives, each 1.92 TB in size.
The following table provides full details of the PowerStore 5000T configuration:
Table 3. PowerStore 5000T configuration details
Processors | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz per Node |
Cache size | 4 x 8.5GB NVMe NVRAM |
Drives | 21 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD |
Total usable capacity | 28.3TB |
Front-end I/O modules | 2 x Four-Port 32Gb FC |
Many production database systems use dedicated infrastructure. In validating Oracle best practices, all the Dell infrastructure was reserved for the database. No parallel workloads were running and competing for CPU, network, and storage resources. This approach of validating best practices in a dedicated environment was used to eliminate variables that might impact test results. We understand many of today’s environments have been consolidated and challenges can arise in tuning one database system on shared infrastructure.
Implementing best practices on consolidated systems could improve performance, but the positive gains might not be as significant due to the shared resources. Using these best practices can assist with resolving some challenges by integrating Day 1, highly recommended configuration as part of provisioning an Oracle database. As the database ecosystem transforms using best practices, overall systems performance may rise, and consolidated systems might perform more efficiently. Best practices offer the enterprise the ability to deploy a database with the optimal design and ecosystems with the capability to drive improved efficiencies.