Virtual Database Environment Setup

In this environment setup, the two virtual databases run within two separate VMs hosted on a single R940-based ESXi host. The ESXi host has four physical HBA ports or initiators that are connected to the XtremIO storage array by redundant FC switches.

On the XtremIO array, configure the storage that is based on the design for the physical database environment as follows.

Note: For detailed steps to create the Initiator Groups, volumes, and mappings that are based on the previously described design for the production database environment, see Appendix A.

1. Create one Initiator Group that contains the four initiators in the ESXi host.

Record the four unique WWNs of the four HBA initiators in the ESXi host. You need these initiator WWNs when you create the two Initiator Groups on the XtremIO storage array.

2. Create storage volumes that are shared by both the virtual databases, which include volumes for the guest operating system and database (OCR, DATA, REDO, FRA, and TEMP). The following table shows the XtremIO volume design for the two databases in the virtual database environment:

Table 28.        XtremIO shared volume design for the two virtual databases

3. Map the two virtual database volumes to the ESXi host by mapping the volumes that you created in step 2 to the single Initiator Group that you created in step 1.