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Dell understands the importance of delivering successful outcomes for our customers. Database management best practices tend to be product specific, making it difficult for customers to understand how to be successful. One of the goals of this document is to drive greater success for our customers by moving best practices from product silos to easy-to-use recommendations. The recommendations for our best practices apply across various products.
This program groups best practices based on the layers in the database management stack: storage, servers, VMware vSphere, operating system, and database configuration. We implemented these groups of best practices, monitored the system, and evaluated the test findings by running OLTP workloads to mimic business application systems.
This guide describes design and configuration best practices of a VMware-based virtualized Oracle database solution that uses PowerEdge servers and PowerStore storage. The guide provides an overview of the architecture design and deployment best practices of the entire stack, including the compute, network, and storage design. It highlights the best practices that are based upon the layers in the database management stack: storage, servers, network, VMware vSphere, operating system, and database configuration.
This guide is intended for infrastructure architects, storage administrators, virtualization administrators, system administrators, IT managers, and other personnel who evaluate, acquire, manage, maintain, or operate Oracle database environments.