Guest Author: Ivo Dujmovic

For those of you with travel budgets, this might be a repeat of an item mentioned in my OpenWorld presentation this year, but I think it worth while sharing with our readers here.  The results of our first benchmarking efforts of E-Business Suite on Oracle VM indicate that the virtualization overhead peaks are around 2-3%. In other words, most of the time the virtualization overhead is not measurable, and at peak overhead times, it is negligible.  

Line graph showing Oracle VM overhead for E-Business Suite instances OVMOverhead.jpg
How were these benchmarks measured? This performance measurements were done with IBM hardware, and included batch and OLTP load from the E-Business Suite Benchmarking Suite. The 12.1.2-based workload included Payroll batch load and assorted online transactions from AR, INV, FA, GL. The E-Business Suite performance team is working on further benchmarks, and more detailed whitepapers might arrive at a later date.  If they’re published externally, we’ll post links here. Related Articles