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Test configuration: software components

Database servers

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

 Host Integration Tools for Linux 1.2.0

 Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition (version 11.2.0.4)

 Two-node Oracle RAC database

 ASM for Clusterware and Database

Quest Benchmark Factory

 2 x virtual machines used (one as the Benchmark Factory console

and one for launching agents)

 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

 Quest Benchmark Factory 6.9.2

 2 agents from each VM

 Oracle 11.2.0.3 client installed

 VMware vSphere ESX version 5.1

 Bare metal hypervisor directly installed on PowerEdge R810

servers

 Managed by vCenter.

Monitoring tools

SAN Headquarters version 2.6.0

Oracle OS Watcher utility (installed on database servers)

Oracle 11g R2 Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)