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Best Practices for Oracle 11g Backup and Recovery using RMAN and Dell EqualLogic Snapshots
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Table 7 – Test Configuration Software Components
Test Configuration
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Software Components
Database Servers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• iSCSI software initiator: 6.2.0.871-0.16.el5
• MPIO Enabled: v0.4.7
Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition
• Two-Node Oracle RAC database.
• ASM for Clusterware and Database
Virtualized Backup Server Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
• iSCSI software initiator: 6.2.0.871-0.16.el5
MPIO Enabled: v0.4.7
Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition
• Oracle Single instance database software
• ASM for single instance database
Virtualization Server VMware vSphere ESX version 4.1
• Bare metal hypervisor directly installed on R610 servers
• Four guest VMs on each ESX server
• Managed by vCenter
I/O Workload Generators 8 x Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
Workload generators (running within VMs):
• Quest Benchmark Factory 6.1.1
• 3 agents from each VM
• Oracle 11g R2 client installed
Monitoring Tools EqualLogic SAN Headquarters version 2.0
Oracle OS Watcher utility (installed on database servers)
Oracle 11g R2 Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)