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Best Practices for Oracle 11g Backup and Recovery using RMAN and Dell EqualLogic Snapshots

Appendix A Test system component details

This section contains an overview of both the hardware and software configurations used throughout

the testing described in this document.

Table 6 – Test Configuration Hardware Components

Test Configuration

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Hardware Components

Oracle Database

Servers

2 x Dell PowerEdge R710 Servers:

• RHEL 5.5 OS

• BIOS Version: 2.1.15

• 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5570 Processors

• 64 GB RAM, 8M Cache, 2.93 GHz

• 2 x 146GB 10K SAS internal disk drives

• Broadcom 5709 1GbE quad-port NIC (LAN on motherboard)

• 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10GbE NIC, Dual-Port – Driver 14.2.3,

A03

Oracle Database

Backup server

One virtual machine was created on this ESX server. RHEL 5.5 OS/ Oracle database

software and Oracle ASM libraries were installed.

1 x Dell PowerEdge R710 Server:

• ESX 4.1 OS

• BIOS Version: 2.1.15

• 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5570 Processors

• 64 GB RAM, 8M Cache, 2.93 GHz

• 2 x 146GB 10K SAS internal disk drives

• Broadcom 5709 1GbE quad-port NIC (LAN on motherboard)

• 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10GbE NIC, Dual-Port – Driver 14.2.3,

A03

I/O Workload

Generators

Eight Windows virtual machines were created on these ESX servers, each running

Quest Benchmark factory.

2 x Dell PowerEdge R610 Servers:

• BIOS Version: 2.1.15

• Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5570 Processor

• 64 GB RAM, 8M Cache, 2.93 GHz

• 2 x 146GB 10K SAS internal disk drives

• Broadcom 5709 1GbE quad-port NIC (LAN on motherboard) – Driver

14.2.3, A03

Network 2 x Dell PowerConnect 6248 1Gb Ethernet Switch

• Firmware: 3.2.0.9

2 x Dell PowerConnect 8024F 10Gb Ethernet Switch

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Firmware: 3.1.4.5

Storage 1 x Dell EqualLogic PS6010XV:

• 14 x 300GB 15K RPM SAS disk drives as RAID 10, with two hot spare disks

• 10GbE dual-port controller running firmware version 5.0.2 (R138185)

1 x Dell EqualLogic PS6010E:

• 14 x 700GB SATA drives as RAID 50, with two hot spare disks

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10GbE dual-port controller running firmware version 5.0.2 (R138185)