Dell Compellent Series 40 - Manual (Page 9)

Cost and Performance benefits of Dell™ Compellent™ Automated Tiered Storage for Oracle® OLAP
Workloads
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Delivers optimal placement of data on each individual disk Figure 5.
Test configuration
A two-node Oracle 11gR2 Real Application Cluster (RAC) was deployed for the database configuration in
this paper. The following hardware and software components were used for the cluster setup.
Hardware and software configurations Table 1.
Component Details
Servers Two Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with:
 Two Intel Xeon 8-core 2.20 GHz Processors
 64 GB of RAM
Storage Dell Compellent SC40 with:
 Two controllers
 One 3.5” SAS enclosure with 12x450GB 15K RPM SAS 3.5” disks
 One 2.5” SAS enclosure with 5x450GB 10K RPM SAS 2.5” disks and
6x1TB 7.2K RPM SAS 2.5” disks
 Storage Center v5.5.3
HBA 8Gb Emulex LPE12002
Network switch Brocade 5100 for Fiber channel storage connect
Operating system RHEL 5.7
Oracle software Oracle 11g R2 11.2.0.3 RAC
Workload
• Quest Benchmark Factory 6.1.1 TPC-H workload
• User connections: One user with 15 Queries