SLOB was used to generate the OLTP workload against each of the 4 Oracle VMs for 60 minutes (2 Large VMs and 2 Medium VMs). This test focusses on extremely heavy Oracle OLTP like workload behavior on Virtual SAN. Oracle Linux 7.0 operating system was used for database VMs with Oracle 12c Database (12.1.0.2.0) as the database version. We built out a 4-node All Flash Virtual SAN Cluster with two Virtual SAN disk groups in each ESXi host, 2 different VM sizes (Medium=4 vCPU/64GB RAM and Large=8 vCPU/96GB RAM) were used.
Oracle 12c OLTP on Virtual SAN All Flash 6.2 Solution test environment Redundancy for Business Critical Applications – Provides high level of redundancy thereby avoiding single point of failures (SPOF) with features like Failure to Tolerate (FTT), Fault Domain.Availability for Business Critical Applications – Minimizes downtime with features like vMotion, vSphere HA, Virtual SAN Stretched Clustering.Built in Data Reduction Technologies – Deduplication, Compression and Erasure Coding reduces data footprint and lowers cost, both capex and opex, further lowering the TCO of the solution.Extreme Performance – Virtual SAN is built into the vSphere kernel which optimizes the I/O path to provide excellent performance.Using these features we developed an architecture for deploying and running Oracle 12c OLTP and DSS workloads on VMware All Flash Virtual SAN 6.2.īefore going into some of the results, let’s take a look as to why it is compelling to deploy heavy IO Oracle workloads on a VMware Virtual SAN All Flash solution.
In this blog post, we would like give you a glimpse of “ Oracle 12c OLTP Workload on VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 All-Flash.Īs some of you may know, in VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, we introduced a suite of new features for data integrity and space efficiency including Checksum, Erasure Coding, Deduplication and Compression. Earlier, we had blogged about Oracle RAC on VMware Virtual SAN Hybrid which is VMware’s software-defined storage solution for hyper-converged infrastructure and is available at Oracle RAC on Hybrid VSAN