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Best Server Solutions for Oracle Database in Physical and Virtualization Environments

Mission-critical applications in a variety of industries are powered by Oracle Database, a fundamental component of enterprise data management. Selecting the best server solution is essential to guaranteeing cost effectiveness, scalability, and peak performance. The capacities, technologies, advantages, costs, and suitability for both physical and virtualized environments of various server solutions for Oracle databases such as rack-mounted servers and composable servers are examined in this article.

Fibre Channel Trunking (Aggregation): Better Performance, Higher Bandwidth (>1 Tb/s)

FC Port Aggregation (Trunking)

We are all knowing LACP on ethernet network but Fibre Channel and SAN network providing multipathing I/O by using logical and physical paths as single device on operating system and also using path selecting policies for using I/O paths optimized. But if server using 16Gb/s FC HBA, so there is no bandwidth aggregation. Server can generate bandwidth for each port up to maximum speed of port and also path selecting has performance impact of server when large paths are presented to server. Months before, I was thinking about FC port aggregation and did many searches but I didn't find anything until now.

HPE BladeSystem Retirement

HPE Blade System

I met HPE C7000 more than ten years ago for first time and I was newbie engineer in virtualization and datacenter. We had 6th generation of blade servers and the first virtual desktop infrastructure farm hosted by the servers in Iran and even Middle East. Now I didn't find any official information about HPE Blade System retirement but after BL6xx server are retired and BL4xx servers released by some limitation compare to Synergy servers, it was clear.

HPE OneView Global Dashboard: Best Software for Global Monitoring

HPE OneView Global Dashboard

HPE is on of biggest companies which producing data center equipment's and facilities. HPE has unified management and monitoring suite for server hardware, network devices and storage devices that called HPE OneView. You may have multiple data center at different geographical location and needs to monitoring all devices on same dashboard. Because HPE OneView needs access to any under managed devices via network and it's recommended that implementing HPE OneView in local site, there are some limitations about managing and monitoring all devices on single instance of HPE OneView. HPE has introduced HPE OneView Global Dashboard for monitoring and managing multiple HPE OneView appliances.