Like every sysadmin I know, I yearn for bigger, beefier servers for my E-Business Suite environments. I've been dreaming about the new HP Oracle Database Machine since its unveiling at OpenWorld 2008.
In case you missed that announcement, this is a server with mainframe-class street cred: up to 14 GB/second in raw I/O bandwidth, which translates to up to 50 GB/second when handling compressed data. Storage scales up to petabytes when combined with the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server. This machine is optimized for handling huge Oracle databases, so it's inevitable that EBS customers with large databases have shown interest in this hardware.
The Database Machine runs Oracle Database 11gR1 11.1.0.7 and Real Application Clusters on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.1. We've just certified Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i with the 11gR1 11.1.0.7 database release, so it's now possible to run Apps 11i on this hardware.
Coming Up: Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Once we certify Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on the 11g 11.1.0.7 Database, you'll be able to run Apps R12 on this server, too. As usual, I don't have specifics that I can publish about that particular certification, but you're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
If you've been lucky enough to get your hands on this hardware for some E-Business Suite benchmarking, our Applications Performance and Applications Platforms groups would love to hear from you.
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Comments (9)
Very cool. Unfortunately (or not) I have no clients who need such an expensive system for their Apps system . Who provides the Hardware support? HP or Oracle? I know yet to find a single client of mine that wanted to go to Oracle Support for anything more than they had to, based on their experiences with Apps.
Posted by Jay Weinshenker | January 3, 2009 9:50 AM
Posted on January 3, 2009 09:50
In addition to Steve's Exadata-related information here, I'd like to point to the following resources as well:
http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/exadata-posts/
Posted by Kevin Closson | January 3, 2009 11:38 AM
Posted on January 3, 2009 11:38
I'm surprised at this blog entry as the exadata DB machine is being marketed towards data warehouses. I saw Larry speak at open world, and as I recall, OLTP systems benchmarking was not really remarked upon. All the slides I saw only provided data warehouse stats.
Nonetheless, I bet 11i EBS does smoke on this VERY expensive hardware.
I cannot wait to see some "real world" comparisons such as running Autoinvoice for 100k records on this box vs other hardware from Sun, Dell, IBM.
Thanks,
Brad
Posted by Brad Moreland | January 4, 2009 7:26 PM
Posted on January 4, 2009 19:26
I can't wait to get my hands on one of these...
Posted by Arnoud Roth | January 4, 2009 11:38 PM
Posted on January 4, 2009 23:38
Hi,
Oracle Database 11.1.0.6.0 is also certified for R12 (12.0.4).
Regards,
Rao
Posted by Rao | January 5, 2009 12:27 AM
Posted on January 5, 2009 00:27
Hi, Rao,
Thanks for your comment. This is true, but unfortunately, not relevant to HP Oracle Database Machine interoperability yet. Remember this server runs 11.1.0.7, not 11.1.0.6. R12 users will need to wait for 11.1.0.7 to be certified before they can run their environment on this new hardware.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | January 5, 2009 10:10 AM
Posted on January 5, 2009 10:10
Hi, Brad,
It's true that the marketing materials for this server have focused heavily on the data warehousing segment. This doesn't prevent EBS users from taking advantage of this new technology, though.
Our Applications Performance Group has been working through the process of getting access to one of these machines for detailed EBS benchmarking. Like you, I'm looking forward to seeing their results with real EBS data!
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | January 5, 2009 10:16 AM
Posted on January 5, 2009 10:16
Hi, Kevin,
My apologies -- something had happened to my RSS feed to your site and I'd somehow missed that you'd been covering this in such detail. Makes sense, seeing as how you're part of the development team for this server.
I'm planning a blog roundup of the latest recommended sites and will be sure to highlight your site once again.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | January 5, 2009 10:21 AM
Posted on January 5, 2009 10:21
No problem, Steve.
Posted by Kevin Closson | January 5, 2009 4:20 PM
Posted on January 5, 2009 16:20