The ability to run OLAP, OLTP, and test/dev in a single virtualized environment while safeguarding availability, lowering costs, and increasing productivity yields significant advantages. This Ready Solution for Oracle was designed to support production OLTP and OLAP applications and test/dev environments simultaneously without sacrificing performance or storage space. With these Oracle databases and other applications co-existing and functioning optimally, you gain a host of benefits, including the following:

• Enhanced IOPS with sub-0.85 millisecond response times
• Efficient operation of multiple applications in the same rack while saving on licensing costs
• Breakthrough simplicity for deployment, management, and support
• Management by DBAs of their own backup and recovery processes without the assistance of backup administrators
• Exceptional performance, reducing backup times maintenance windows
• Minimal impact on production workloads while performing backups or recovery, enabling DBAs to run production simultaneously with backup windows
• Integration of the hardware stack, drivers, and other components by the same common vendor
• Reduction of the customer’s TCO due to purchase of an optimal hardware stack with this solution