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This layer provides all the physical hosts or computing requirements for all three tiers. The PowerFlex compute layer can scale independently of the PowerFlex storage layer. This type of scaling provides OAS customers the flexibility to add PowerFlex compute-only (CO) nodes to any of the tiers, at any time, as their workload demands. In the PowerFlex architecture, CO nodes are called Storage Data Clients (SDC).
Two or more bare metal Linux-based-PowerFlex CO nodes can be used to run as the Oracle HTTP Servers (WEBHOST1, WEBHOST2, WEBHOSTn). PowerFlex R650 powered by Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd generation processors can provide plenty of computing, memory, and I/O capability required to run an Oracle HTTP Server.
Two or more bare-metal, Linux-based PowerFlex CO nodes can be used to run as the OAS application servers (BIHOST1, BIHOST2, BIHOSTn). PowerFlex R650 that is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd generation processor can provide plenty of computing, memory, and I/O capability that is needed to run OAS in a clustered environment.
Two or more bare-metal, Linux-based or two or more virtualized ESXi hosts set up as PowerFlex CO nodes can be used to run the two or more Oracle RAC nodes (DBHOST1, DBHOST2, DBHOSTn). PowerFlex R750 that is powered by Intel Xeon Scalable 3rd generation processor can provide plenty of computing, memory, and I/O capability that is needed to run an Oracle Database in a RAC environment.