Dell compellent sc8000, Oracle vm – Dell PowerEdge R820 User Manual
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Consolidating Oracle Databases on the Dell PowerEdge R820 Server Using Oracle VM
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The PowerEdge R820 is a 2U rack mount server includes support for the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600
family (Sandy Bridge-EP architecture). This family of 6/8 core processors includes an integrated
memory controller (IMC) and integrated IO (IIO) on a single silicon die. This new server supports PCIe
generation 7 slots for peripherals and two internal raid controller cards, and can host up to 1.5TB of
memory.
Networking support on the PowerEdge R820 includes a rack network daughter card (rNDC). Unlike
traditional LOM, rNDC offers greater flexibility in terms of expanded features, network types, speed,
and vendors. rNDC also offers an easy upgrade path from 1G to 10G speeds. This server also offers
options such as support for the latest Dell systems management software including Life Cycle Controller
2.0 and iDRAC.
Dell Compellent SC8000
The Dell Compellent SC8000 represents the latest Dell Compellent storage offering to support next
generation SC8000 controllers. The SC8000 includes the following specifications:
2U rack chassis with dual six-core, 2.5GHz (with Turbo) Intel Xeon E5-2640 CPUs
Six PCIe Gen3-enabled expansion slots to extend I/O capabilities for future growth
16GB to 64GB total available cache per controller, with a maximum 128GB per dual controller
system
Oracle VM
Oracle VM is virtualization technology based on Xen hypervisor. Oracle VM helps to virtualize server
hardware. Using Oracle VM, multiple virtual machines which act as independent servers can be
created. This helps in better utilization of physical server resources. Oracle VM consists of three
components:
Oracle VM
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Server is based upon Xen hypervisor technology. It provides the environment for
running virtual machines.
Oracle VM Manager is a web-based user interface application to manage Oracle VM servers. It
can manage whole of virtual machine life cycle which includes several operations such as
create, delete, power off, live migration etc. also it can manage resources such as repositories,
templates, ISOs, Virtual disks, network infrastructure etc.
Oracle VM agent is embedded within the Oracle VM Server. It is communication channel
between the Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM Manager for management of virtual machines.
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Oracle VM