HP Unified Application Solutions For Oracle

Technical white paper
HP Unified Application Solution

for Oracle Reference
Architectures
A Pathway to the Cloud for your Oracle environment

Table of contents
Executive summary ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Solution overview and components ............................................................................................................. 3
Application architecture ................................................................................................................................ 4
Hardware configurations............................................................................................................................... 5
Entry ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Medium ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Large .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
Technologies that address business problems ......................................................................................... 10
HP BladeSystem ...................................................................................................................................... 10
HP ProLiant servers ................................................................................................................................. 11
Virtual Connect......................................................................................................................................... 11
Matrix Operating Environment using logical server profiles ................................................................. 12
Business continuity .................................................................................................................................. 15
Services .................................................................................................................................................... 15
Factory express ....................................................................................................................................... 15
Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................... 16
For more information .................................................................................................................................. 17

Technical white paper | HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle Reference Architectures

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Executive summary
Organizations around the globe are in search of solutions to address increasingly complex business challenges. They
struggle with application sprawl, high management costs, and silo environments that either make inefficient use of
resources, or are unable to keep up with fluctuations and growth in the organizations business. An HP customer survey
reveals that 65% of IT budget allocation is spent on operations cost, 25% on migrations and upgrades, and only 10% on IT
strategy and innovation.
Enterprises clearly need to reduce the total amount of resources focused on operations and maintenance allowing them to
redirect those resources towards more strategic, innovative tasks. With this in mind HPs Unified Application Solution for
Oracle offers significant improvements to help you reduce the time spent in operations and maintenance by cutting your
application deployment time from weeks, to just a few hours. Reduce the cost of operations and maintenance with features
such as 80% reduced cabling, reduce operational cost by saving as much as 200 staff hours per application allowing IT staff
to concentrate on innovation and enhanced productivity and flexibility with HPs latest generation servers and management
tools.
But these arent the only challenges CIOs face. We have had a lot of dialogue with customers around their data center
challenges. Based on those discussions, we believe you can group the challenges into three areas:
The need to rapidly respond to business and customer needs meeting capacity/SLA requirements, better use of
resources and accelerating time to application value
The need to reduce the cost of operations and maintenance reducing IT sprawl , doing more with less, faster return on
investment and escalating power and cooling costs
The need to enhance the quality of services to enable business success ensure business continuity and protect critical
resource and data assets
To quickly respond to these trends, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle offers a purpose-built, engineered
solution that is modular, flexible, and extensible with additional benefits such as 40-60% savings in power and cooling, 50%
to 70% performance improvement by adding resources when they are needed and 55% savings in hardware costs over
traditional or proprietary solutions.
This engineered solution provides the right level of service for consolidating your Oracle Application instances using one
unified, extensible platform that is cost-efficient and easy to deploy. In addition, this solution provides the ability to move
resources on the fly to meet your changing business needs by creating logical profiles that can move freely across physical
and virtual machines.
Built on the industry-leading, HP Converged Infrastructure, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle enables you to use
and manage all Oracle applications in a physical or virtual data center today, and seamlessly move to a converged cloud
environment when the time is right. No matter which delivery model you choose, HP services will be at your side with the
service and support you need to ensure a successful deployment.
The Converged Infrastructure consolidates and flattens the networking layer by using 95% less cards, switches, cables and
SFP+s over traditional rack based silo solutions. HP has the industrys most complete, open, extendable portfolio with best
in class technology and integrated solutions. HP is #1 or #2 in all markets offering more choices of operating systems and
virtualization than the competition. Other vendors provide either closed proprietary or limited heterogeneous solutions with
limited integration.
Implementing the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle provides a single unified management of the environment that
is greatly simplified, and costs mitigated. Furthermore, by leveraging thousands of hours of testing and development and
best practices from HP in working with Oracle applications, customers can quickly procure and deploy an application-ready
infrastructure solution and take advantage of HPs 100 plus Cloud Maps to quickly fast track the worlds first Converged
Cloud Solution for Oracle and other vendors applications, often in less than an hour, thus saving weeks of time in creating
needed services. Not only will you greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to design and deploy your Oracle application
solution, the real value will be realized in consolidating a myriad of applications with one high-performance, virtualized
environment engineered expressly for your Oracle applications. With HP Cloud Maps for Oracle you get pre-packaged
application templates integrating decades of HP and ISV expertise that are used to customize catalogs of application
services ready for the business to deploy as the next step in the evolution of converged cloud.

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HP Converged Cloud, is the industrys first hybrid delivery approach and portfolio based on a common architecture. Based on
IDC research
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, HP internal testing and what customers are achieving the following benefits are achievable by implementing
a converged cloud platform.
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Time to deploy an Oracle service 10 weeks to a few hours
Dramatically reduced lower operational cost reduction in 200 staff hours per application
Enhanced productivity and flexibility
IT spending now available to be directed to innovation
40-60% savings in power and cooling
Reduced cabling by more than 80%
50% to 70% performance improvement by adding resources where they are needed
Technology refresh of older infrastructure will boost performance/efficiency 3-10x
55% savings in hardware costs over traditional or proprietary solutions
Increase and control utilization of resources effectively and efficiently
Whether you are looking to move your Oracle applications and databases towards a converged cloud platform today or
want to start with a converged infrastructure that can be adapted to cloud services whenever you are ready to embrace it,
HP provides engineered reference architectures to help organizations rapidly procure and deploy complete infrastructure
solutions for Oracle application environments.
This HP Solutions Engineering for Oracle white paper on unifying Oracle applications, provides detailed reference
architectures for entry level, medium, and large system deployments that can be acquired either as an infrastructure
solution or as part of an HP CloudSystem Matrix (the ideal platform for deploying a Converged Cloud and Infrastructure as a
Service). These reference architectural deployments make use of the industry leading HP ProLiant server blades, HP Virtual
Connect networking along with customer choice of virtualization and HP management software to build a physical and/or
virtualized Oracle landscape.
The document will highlight the key benefits of a converged infrastructure solution for Oracle applications including server,
storage, network and management tools. This is not a step-by-step instruction guide to building reference architectures
(that information exists in the CloudSystem Solutions and Cloud Map deployment templates). This document will also not
give installation guidance, or show how to install the software discussed.
Target audience: IT and business decision makers building an infrastructure for Oracle applications.
Solution overview and components
HP understands that customers will evolve to cloud at different speeds. Customers who are just starting to virtualize
various Oracle application workloads are probably not ready for private clouds. They need to first focus on standardization,
consolidation, and virtualization. Gains in these areas lay the groundwork for cloud-based approaches.
HP has introduced Unified Database and Application Solutions for Oracle, a set of reference architectures based on
converged systems that help deliver the fastest path to agile, efficient virtualized database solutions. The key benefits
include:
Performance bottlenecks are eliminated via a balanced architecture that has been optimized for virtualized environments
with the ability to add to, remove from or balance database workloads to efficiently use resources.
Management, deployment, and security have been simplified across physical and virtual environments.
Unified Solutions for Oracle provide choice of deploying as a cloud-based solution with HP CloudSystem Matrix, or
purchased as an infrastructure solution today and integrated to the cloud when you are ready.
HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle (infrastructure platform Converged Cloud ready) includes the following
components:
HP infrastructure
Optimized rack and server blade configurations
Converged scale-out storage optimized for virtualization
High-performance LAN and SAN connections

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Source: IDC Research Sponsored by HP, Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud, December 2011
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Note: your mileage may vary based on your current environment

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Deep management
Intelligent rack and power infrastructure management
Integrated system and storage management
HP Services
Factory integration
Installation and support
Optional consulting services
Holistic delivery
The HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle detailed below is based on HP best practices developed over more than two
decades of collaborative engineering. Some applicable white papers and Reference Architecture documentation that will
help to fast-track your Oracle database deployment can be found via:
HP Reference Architectures for Oracle
HP Enterprise Applications Services for Oracle
HP Private Cloud Solutions for Oracle
Additional Reference Architecture for Oracle information is available at hporacle.com, hp.com/go/oracle and from
hp.com/go/cloudmaps.
Application architecture
Oracle application implementations typically include several different types of landscapes (see Figure 1) including multiple
application solutions for Production and Non-Production environments.
Figure 1. Application deployment strategies

Production Oracle application environments include one or more database servers. This is addressed in the HP Unified
Database Solution for Oracle white paper. These database reference architectures are complementary to the application
reference architectures. In an Oracle database implementation you would use a Unified Database Solution for Oracle
reference architecture for deploying the databases with the database reference architecture provided in this document. The
application tier requirements in this architecture can be deployed as a single instance or a cluster of nodes depending on
business continuity requirements, scalability of the application environment or performance of the business. Any of the
configurations can also be physical servers or deployed as virtual servers (VM) and managed from a central management
console.

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In addition to the primary Production environment, each implementation typically consists of several Non-Production
environments as well, and can vary by implementation depending on customer requirements. Oracle applications need at
least 4 types of non-production servers Development, Test, Q&A, and Training. These are usually deployed as virtual
machines as they are sporadically used and have a small number of users. Also, developers will usually bring up a sandbox
environment to test some new patch or functionality, and utilizing virtual machines makes it easy to clone a test
environment, and then retire it once the test is complete and promoted into development.
Table 1 illustrates how each of the reference architectures could be deployed in a typical Oracle application physical/virtual
environment. This is just an example illustration with each reference architecture using half of the servers for physical
deployments and the other half of the servers for virtual deployments. One of the benefits of this environment is the
flexibility to implement based on your business requirements.
Table 1. Unified Application Solution for Oracle example deployment options
Reference Architectures Entry Medium Large
Total Compute nodes 8x BL460c (half-height
2p/12 cores per blade)
1x blade enclosure
16 x BL460c (half -height
1 x blade enclosure
32 x BL460c (half -height,
2x blade enclosures
Total processors / total cores 16p/96c 32p/192c 64p/384c
Total Mem / Mem per server 768 GB/ 96 GB 1536 GB/ 96 GB 3072 GB / 96 GB
Total Storage (usable) * 4 TB 8 TB 16 TB
Total number of VMs** 32 64 128
Memory per VM 24 GB 24 GB 24 GB
VMs per physical node 4 8 16
* 50% concurrency, 70/30 R/W ratio;
** Conservative ratio of 2 cores / VM

Application environments for mission-critical applications vary somewhat depending on business needs. HP identifies
several reference architectures for Oracle application environments that best meet the performance, availability and
consolidation needs of organizations, matching the business requirements with best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO).
Several solutions can be found at hp.com/go/oracle. Organizations should work with the HP Competency Center for Oracle
to choose the best solution and options for their individual needs.
To greatly enhance application growth and elasticity, HP best practices suggest a boot-from-SAN strategy, configuring idle
boot images in the event of capacity or failover considerations. These boot images can be enabled either in virtual machines,
or on bare metal, depending on your corporate strategy. For bare metal deployments, business managers will benefit
greatly by the fast allocation of services to compute nodes with HP Virtual Connect Manager. By abstracting specific
addresses of nodes in the environment, HP Virtual Connect (VC) makes all compute nodes instantaneously available to
Oracle services. This also greatly reduces the time required to provision services for new application deployments or
migrations.
Hardware configurations
The recommended configurations provide all components necessary to create an Oracle environment, including servers for
both production and non-production environments, network, storage, and management tools. The solutions provide for
dynamic flexing of resources to accommodate cyclical workload peaks, business continuity, virtualization and planned or
unplanned downtime. If the business challenges stated in this document sound all too familiar, the HP Unified Application
Solution for Oracle is the right solution for you.
Each configuration can support multiple application stacks each requiring app, web, reporting, and other complementary
servers based on the different Oracle applications being deployed. It is recommended to engage the HP regional sizing
teams to determine the sizing requirements of each application database before deploying on one of the reference
architectures.

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Entry
The entry configuration (Figure 2) supports a single database stack or multiple application depending on the business
requirements. This solution can be expanded into a medium configuration later as business grows or as more applications
require deploying. This can be cost effectively achieved by using the principles and practical implementation
recommendations of the HP Converged Infrastructure model. The entry level solution implements 8 HP ProLiant BL460c
Gen8 blades with 12 cores each running the operating system version of your choice and uses an HP P2000 based storage
system with 4 TB usable disk space.
Figure 2. Entry Mid-sized business configuration

Table 2. Entry Mid-sized Business Configuration
Qty Item Description
1 Rack HP Universal Rack 10642 G2 Shock Rack
1 Blade Enclosure BLc7000 Blade Enclosure
(2) VC Flex-10 Ethernet interconnect module
(4) 10GigE uplinks with SFP+
(2) VC 8Gb/s 24-port FC interconnect module
Redundant power, cooling, and Onboard Administrator (OA)
Virtual Connect Manager (included)
8 ProLiant Servers HP BL460c Gen8 Blade

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(2) Processors (6 cores each), 96 GB RAM
(1) DP 10 GigE (included LOM)
(1) Emulex Dual Channel 8Gb, PCI-E-to-FC HBA Mez card
2 SAN Switch HP 8/24 (24) Full Fabric Ports Enabled SAN Switch each with
(6) HP 8Gb Short Wave B-Series SFP+
(2) 2m Multi-mode OM3 LC/LC FC Cables
1 P2000 Storage HP P2000 with 4 TB disk space
2 Optional: Ethernet Switch HP 5820 24-Port 1/10 GigE port switches
1 Software Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x or higher
1 Optional: Software VMware vSphere Enterprise Software
HP Matrix Operating Environment
HP Dynamic Capacity Management
HP Data Protector

Medium
A medium configuration (Figure 3) extends the entry configuration. This architecture can support several application stacks
each with several thousand users. This build employs 16 HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blades running a combination of
physical and optional virtual software of your choice with the HP P2000 based storage system with 8 TB usable disk space.
Figure 3. Enterprise business medium


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Table 3. Medium Enterprise Configuration
Redundant power, cooling, and OA
HP Data Protector


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Large
A larger configuration is shown in Figure 4. This architecture can usually support 3 or more application stacks each with
thousand of users. This build employs 32 HP BladeSystem x64 Blades running VMware vSphere and the HP P4500 based
storage system with 16 TB of raw disk space.
Figure 4. Enterprise business large

Table 4. Large Enterprise Configuration
Redundant power, cooling, and OA

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HP Data Protector

Technologies that address business problems
The value proposition offered by HP encompasses unique HP innovation, engineered architectures built around Oracle
solutions, services in the cloud and application space, a vast partner ecosystem, and end-to-end solution offerings. HP
offers the products, solutions, services, support and the ecosystem to make customers planning a roadmap to the cloud
thrive. Scores of customers across web, search, services, and social media have implemented production clouds based on
HP Converged Infrastructure. The following technologies are just a few of the many ways HP can help you address your
business problems and drive innovation in the business.
HP BladeSystem
Drive business innovation and eliminate server sprawl with HP BladeSystem, the industrys only Converged Infrastructure
architected for any workload from client to cloud. HP BladeSystem is engineered to maximize every hour, watt, and dollar,
saving up to 56% total cost of ownership over traditional infrastructures.
With HP BladeSystem, it is possible to create a change ready, power efficient, network optimized, simple to manage and
high performance infrastructure on which to consolidate, build and scale your Oracle database implementation. Each c7000
enclosure can accommodate up to 16 half-height blades or up to 8 full-height blades or a mixture of both. In addition, there
are 8 Interconnect Bays with support for any I/O fabric your applications requires. An HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure
populated with HP ProLiant BL460c blades is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. The HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure (pictured with HP ProLiant BL460c server blades)

Benefits for Oracle Applications
HP BladeSystem allows for the use of high scaling, distributed 2 or 4-socket servers in Oracle database implementations
while maintaining a minimal amount of infrastructure to be managed. The result is a highly available, power efficient, simple
to manage infrastructure that sacrifices nothing while delivering optimized costs, virtualization options, converged storage
and networking, and simple scalability.

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HP ProLiant servers
Choosing a server for Oracle applications involves selecting a server that is the right mix of performance, price and power
efficiency with the most optimal management. HPs experience during test and in production has been that 2 or 4 socket
servers are the ideal platform for Oracle applications depending on the workload requirements. With the potential of
multiple VMs running on one platform, 2 and 4 socket systems offer better memory performance and memory scaling for
databases that need large System Global Area (SGA). HP BladeSystem reduces costs and simplifies management through
shared infrastructure.
HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8
The HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blade offers the ideal balance of performance, scalability and expandability for most
any workload, making it the standard for dense data center computing. Each HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 offers Intel Xeon
E5-2600 series processors accommodating 1 or 2 processors with a range of 2 16 cores, two I/O expansion mezzanine
slots with Flex adapters supporting Flex-10
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with Ethernet, iSCSI and even FCoE traffic, up to 512GB of DDR3 memory, two
hot plug drive bays with an embedded HP Smart Array controller as well as industry leading HP Integrated Lights-Out 4
(iLO 4) management capabilities.
Figure 6. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blade

The BL460c is an ideal platform for most Oracle application workloads. The BL460c offers not only high user counts per
host, but also incredible density which is far more important in optimizing power and management efficiency as well as
reducing infrastructure. It also makes no compromises with memory speed and capacity which plays an important role
when achieving maximum Oracle application performance.
Virtual Connect
HP Virtual Connect (VC) provides the worlds first wire-once interconnect solution for virtualized and cloud-ready
environments. Virtual Connect is an industry-standards-based I/O solution that allows you to virtualize your LAN or SAN
connections at the server edge for simplicity, flexibility and mobility. It puts an abstraction layer between servers and the
external networks so that the LAN and SAN see a fixed pool of servers rather than individual servers.
The Virtual Connect Manager allows you to create I/O profiles, defining unique MAC addresses and WWNs. A VC profile is
assigned to a specific bay in the blade enclosure, effectively hiding the LAN and FC hardware on the installed server blade.
This approach allows you to upgrade or replace a blade without the need to change any of the external resources used by
that server.
Virtual Connect Ethernet and FC modules simplify the connection of server NICs and HBAs to the data center environment
and extend the capabilities of these standard server devices by supporting the secure administration of their Ethernet MAC
addresses and FC WWNs. No virtual devices are created; the MAC addresses and WWNs are real and are the only identifiers
seen by the system, the OS, and the networks. Secure management is achieved by accessing the physical NICs and HBAs via
the enclosures Onboard Administrator (OA) and the iLO interfaces on the individual server blades. Each Virtual Connect Flex-
10 Module has 16 x 10 Gb downlinks, 2 x 10 Gb cross connects, 1 x 10 Gb copper uplink, and 8 x 10 Gb SR, LR, or LRM fiber
uplinks SFP+ with a maximum of 8 modules per blade enclosure. Each Virtual Connect 8Gb Fibre Channel Module has 16
internal 8 Gb downlinks and 8 external 8 Gb uplinks with a maximum of 6 modules per blade enclosure. A single c7000
blade enclosure can accommodate a maximum of 8 total modules of various combinations.

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Figure 7. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 (10 Gb Ethernet Module)

Figure 8. HP Virtual Connect 8 Gb (24-Port Fibre Channel Module)

Oracle Applications and Database landscapes commonly need dense stacks of servers with hundreds of Ethernet and
Fibre Channel (FC) connections to make the infrastructure work. HP Virtual Connect (VC) eliminates point-to-point
connections and configuration complexity.
Configure/Wire-once, then add, move, and change network connections without affecting LAN or SAN in minutes instead
of days; managing connections for many servers from one pane of glass.
Requires up to 95 percent fewer network cards
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, switches and cables to buy, install, qualify, and maintain. Additionally,
achieve significant reduction in power and cooling costs as well as in equipment cost with VC Converged Networking.
Network sprawl at the server edge, explosive growth of virtual machines, and rising networking infrastructure costs, slow
down your ability to respond to change. HP VC simplifies the server edge by addressing this sprawl.
If a particular Oracle RAC cluster interconnect requires more bandwidth as the workload grows or during specific peak
loads during a heavy usage time of the year you can adjust the bandwidth as needed. You are no longer locked into either
1 Gb or 10 Gb allocations for a database workload. HP VC Flex-10 allows you to adjust bandwidth to your changing
workload whenever you need to.
65% lower interconnect and adapter costs for Oracle RAC implementations

Matrix Operating Environment using logical server profiles
HP Matrix Operating Environment (OE) can give your organization a competitive edge by providing the information you need
to proactively deal with potential issues (such as performance, power, and space constraints) before they develop into
problems that can impact your business. You no longer have to wait for an application server to be overloaded or to
experience an outage that necessitates a recovery. Even if a failure should occur, the logical server capability of HP Matrix
OE, and the fast provisioning it enables, makes recovery fast and easy to execute. HP Matrix OE can be used to prevent
problems by balancing resources across your data center, enabling higher levels of availability and quality-of-service.
Matrix OE enables management of both physical blade servers and virtual machines as logical servers so they can be moved
and migrated easily within a CloudSystem environment, including the following key functionality:
Logical servers
Real-time capacity planning
Unified control of physical and virtual infrastructures
Logical server
Logical servers can be used to bring the freedom and flexibility of virtualization to your physical servers. In essence, a logical
server consists of a server profile that is easy to create and move freely across physical and virtual machines (VMs). The
detachment of logical identities from physical resources allows you to create logical servers on or move them to any
suitable physical or virtual machine, as needed.

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Based on HP analysis of networking equipment (adapters and enclosure interconnects)

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Figure 9. A logical server profile that is easily created and freely moved across physical or virtual machines

A logical servers profile can include entitlements such as power allocation, processor and memory requirements, network
connections, and storage everything the operating system and application stack requires to operate. The key components
to creating a logical server profile are boot from SAN, Virtual Connect, and Flex-10 which is a hardware-based solution that
lets you split a 10 Gb/s server network connection into four variable partitions. Flex-10 technology lets you replace multiple
lower bandwidth physical NIC ports with a single Flex-10 port. This reduces management requirements, the number of NICs
and interconnects modules needed, and power and operational costs.
Alternatively, you can create and store logical server templates with configurations specifically designed for your most
frequently used applications. These templates can be reactivated in minutes, as needed.
Figure 10. Dynamic flexing an Oracle RAC cluster bare metal provision additional RAC node 3

Real-time capacity planning with HP Capacity Advisor
HP Capacity Advisor is the industrys most advanced real-time capacity planning tool, allowing you to continuously monitor
server capacity and power use. It collects and analyzes millions of historical data points from virtual and physical resources,
then, using HP Smart Solver technology, shows you how best to distribute your application workloads, helping to reduce the
number of physical servers you need.

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Capacity Advisor employs a five-star rating system to show you, in real time, which physical server database is the best fit
for a particular logical server database; after selecting a suitable target, you can drag-and-drop the logical server to the
desired location.
This approach takes the tedious research and guesswork out of traditional capacity planning. Moreover, the energy-usage
awareness built into Capacity Advisor, which is based on more than a thousand data points collected per server per day,
allows you to make decisions on-the-fly so that your data center can become more energy-efficient than ever before.
Unified control
HP Matrix OE allows you to control all physical and virtual resources in exactly the same way. It extends the capabilities of
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) the infrastructure management platform for unified control allowing you to view
all available database resources on a single screen; you can drill down as far as you need without logging into another tool.
In addition, HP Matrix OE is designed to manage virtualized servers if you want to move physical database servers to virtual
machines or virtual database servers to physical servers.
The provisioning of servers and storage using system management capabilities allows you to control your Oracle database
environment, as needed, by making dynamic changes. Based on your business needs, you can set thresholds for these
resources and dynamically make changes to provide the desired level of service.
The provisioning model supports use cases such as the following:
Reduce the Oracle application downtime due to planned maintenance or failure
An Oracle application workload can be moved from one server to another to increase availability during planned
maintenance or in response to a failure.
Examples of this use case include:
A firmware upgrade is required in order to take advantage of a new capability.
An increase in recoverable memory errors makes it advisable to proactively replace memory to avoid failure.
A variation on this use case involves adding capacity by moving an existing Oracle application workload from one server to
another with more available resources. For example, newly created Oracle application transactions might require additional
resources, such as additional processor cores, I/O and/or memory.
Increase the resource utilization rates of an Oracle application
You can add server capacity by activating an additional Oracle application server to accommodate an increased workload.
Examples of this use case include:
The number of users and/or batch jobs has increased, requiring additional resources to handle the growing demand.
Projections from Capacity Advisor of future needs indicate that current capacity will not be able to adequately support the
forecast demand.
Additional resources are required on short notice for purposes such as new projects or training.
Reduce excess resources assigned to Oracle application database workloads by deactivation or consolidation
You can reduce the resources assigned to an Oracle application workload through deactivation or consolidation when these
resources are no longer needed. Examples of this use case include:
Resource requirements for an application workload vary significantly depending on the time of day, week, month, or year.
An obsolete legacy application workload is no longer required but may possibly be reactivated later on short notice.
A special project, such as testing or training, has finished.
The number of users and/or automated jobs has decreased, reducing resource requirements.
Original resource requirements were over-estimated.
Design and provision services in minutes via a self-service portal
Proactively collect data about each environment to review utilization and growth so you can proactively balance
resources and determine capacity requirements
Take advantage of defined logical server profiles to add resources on the fly or move unused resources to other projects.


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Business continuity
To ensure consistent performance and rock-solid stability, your data center must also be able to adapt effortlessly in a
dynamic business environment a daunting prospect to be sure. But rest assured HP Unified Solutions for Oracle can help.
To achieve this goal, you need a shared resource infrastructure, with integrated virtualization and automation capabilities,
built on a seamless tiered storage foundation with availability built in at every level. Then you need to know that the full
stack of technologies has been tested and proven as an integrated system. Thats exactly what the HP Unified Application
Solution for Oracle delivers.
The HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle reference architecture features a fully self-contained infrastructure
comprised of server blades, storage, and networking resources, all of which can be shared dynamically to ensure
continuous availability. Network and storage cabling is aggregated and shared within the backplane of the BladeSystem
enclosure, dramatically simplifying administration and lowering cost. To support this kind of highly integrated application
database environment you must have an infrastructure capable of modular growth and dynamic resource allocation the
same characteristics a data center must achieve to ensure business continuity.
HP also provides Enhanced Mission Critical services available for consolidation, business continuity, modernization and
shared services Private Cloud projects. This includes the services to design, deploy and maintain your toughest mission
critical environments for maximum resiliency.
Servers, network and storage integrated by design with business continuity in mind allows for easy add, remove or replace
components without any downtime.
Services
Oracle applications, middleware, and databases are essential for the success of your business. With HPs performance
tuning and benchmarking efforts, and more than 100,000 customer engagements, HP has built significant expertise around
todays Oracle solutions. HP offers the benefit of that experience to our customers, helping you maximize the performance
and functionality of your Oracle deployments. With HP services, you will be ready to support today's business challenges
and adapt quickly to changes you will face in the future.
HP focuses on common needs we identified in Oracle implementations, addressing areas such as:
Planning and design
System performance
Installation and configuration
IT outsourcing
Infrastructure consulting
Service-oriented architecture
Jumpstart/migration
Working with IT staff and system integrators, HP offers Oracle content expertise during key points of the implementation.
Focused service offerings can help you improve the quality of your project while accelerating the project timeline.
Take advantage of over 12,000 Oracle specialists worldwide to make your transformation successful.
Be assured HP will stand behind you for your Oracle environment (1,000,000 plus Oracle users supported).

Factory express
HP Factory Express can extend your valuable resources and accelerate your business results. It provides predictable, trusted
and tested IT solutions tailored to your business needs. With HP Factory Express, our factory is your factory, and our
engineers are an extension of your IT staff. Together we plan, design and implement the best solution for your business,
giving you access to expertise that can help you with quick and easy adoption of new technologies. HP Factory Express also
delivers:

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Flexibility
You decide how your solution is built, tested, integrated, shipped and deployed.
You have a comprehensive set of offerings to choose from.
Value
Saves time and money, while allowing your people to focus on your core business.
Helps accelerate the transition to new technologies.
Confidence
Solutions are completed by HP experts and rigorously tested before delivery.
Systems, processes and people behind HP Factory Express deliver accurate, reliable results.
Experience predictable, seamless and smoother implementations.
Include the right configuration for you enterprise based on the reference architectures.
Conclusion
Flexible, consolidated, and agile, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle is designed and optimized for Oracle. Using
this truly versatile solution, you can consolidate all Oracle Application instances on one unified platform that is cost-efficient
and easy to deploy. In addition, the solution expands and contracts on the fly to meet youre changing needs. Built on the
industry-leading HP Converged Infrastructure, the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle enables you to use and manage
all Oracle applications in a physical data center today, and seamlessly migrate to a private cloud when the time is right. No
matter which delivery model you choose, HP Services will be at your side with the service and support you need to ensure a
successful deployment.
The HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle is a modular, standards-based converged infrastructure that will integrate
seamlessly with your existing data center. Based on the highly efficient HP BladeSystem technology, the HP Unified
Application Solution for Oracle has been validated, integrated, and tested with Oracle application solutions, but you can also
use it with other vendors database platforms. With the HP Unified Application Solution for Oracle, you receive outstanding
value in the form of:
Pre-engineered, tested offering
Complete solution for Oracle application tier
Innovative and clear roadmap for investment protection
Balanced for performance and value
Modular, scalable, extensible
Expand and contract capacity in minutes
Physical or virtual deployments
Seamless integration to the cloud, using HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP Cloud Maps
Your choice of operating system
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HP Virtualization with VMware hp.com/go/vmware
Oracle virtualization support note 249212.1 https://support.oracle.com
HP Converged Infrastructure: Reference Architecture Design Guide
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Oracle Database Installation and Configuration Guides
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