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The solution incorporates two PowerEdge R740 and two PowerEdge R640 servers. The following tables describe these components:
Component | Details |
Processors | 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6246R CPU @3.10GHz, 18C/36T |
Memory | 1.5 TB, 24 x 64 GB 2666MT/S |
NIC | Broadcom 5720 Quad-Port GbE Rack NDC, 2 x Intel 10 GbE 2P X710 adapter |
HBA | 2 x 32 Gb Emulex LPe35000 FC adapter |
Component | Details |
Processors | 2 x Intel Xeon® Gold 5118 @2.30GHz, 12C/24T |
Memory | 768 GB, 12 x 64 G 2666MT/S |
NIC | BRCM 2P 25G SFP rNDC, Intel(R) 10G 2P X520 adapter |
HBA | 1 x 16 Gb Emulex LPe32000 FC adapter |
This solution uses PowerStore T storage with a base enclosure, which has 21 Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD drives and two NVMe NVRAM drives that are designed for the PowerStore caching system. The following table describes the PowerStore T hardware components:
Component | Details |
PowerStore model | PowerStore T |
Processor | 4 x Intel Xeon Silver 4108 CPU @ 1.80 GHz, 16C/32T per node |
Memory | 192 GB per node and 2 x 8 GB NVMe NVRM for caching |
Drives | 21 NVMe SSD drives, each 1.92 TB |
Total capacity | 28.3 TB |
Software components
The following table shows the software components in this solution:
RAC database | Description |
Hypervisor operating system | VMware ESXi 7.0 (Dell EMC customized ISO image) with vCenter 7.0 |
Guest operating systems (for PROD and DEV database nodes) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 with kernel 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 |
Oracle Grid infrastructure | Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c (19.0.0.0) with Release Update (RU) 19.7 |
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition | Oracle Real Application Clusters 19c (19.0.0.0) with RU 19.7 |
Dell EMC PowerStore | Operating system version 1.0.1.0.5.002 |