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Contents

What You Will Learn

Introduction

Leadership from Cisco .............................................................................................................................................. 3

Oracle Certified Configuration ................................................................................................................................... 3

Benefits of the Configuration ..................................................................................................................................... 3

Simplified Deployment and Operation

High-Performance Platform for Oracle RAC

Safer Deployments with Certified and Validated Configurations.

Implementation Instructions ...................................................................................................................................... 5

Introducing the Cisco Unified Computing System

Comprehensive Management ................................................................................................................................... 5

Radical Simplification ................................................................................................................................................ 5

High Performance ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

Scalability Decoupled from Complexity ..................................................................................................................... 5

Ready for the Future ................................................................................................................................................. 5

Overview of the Certified Configuration

Overview of the Solution

Detailed Topology ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

Configuring Cisco Unified Computing System for the Eight-Node Oracle RAC

Configuring the Cisco UCS 6120XP Fabric Interconnect ........................................................................................ 10

Configuring the Server Ports ................................................................................................................................... 11

Configuring Uplinks to the SAN and LAN ................................................................................................................ 11

Configuring the SAN and LAN on Cisco UCS Manager .......................................................................................... 11

Setting up Service Profiles

Creating the Service Profile Template .................................................................................................................... 13

Creating the vNICs and associating them with VLANs ........................................................................................... 18

Creating Service Profiles and Associating Them with Blade Servers ..................................................................... 22

Configuring the SAN Switch and Zoning

Setting Up EMC CLARiiON Storage

Configuring Storage ................................................................................................................................................ 25

Applying Patches, Environment, and OS Settings

Installing the OS and Setting Up the Environment .................................................................................................. 28

Installing Oracle Clusterware and the Database

Configuring the Oracle SwingBench Workload ....................................................................................................... 30

OLTP (Order Entry) Database

DSS (Sales History) Database

Testing Workload Performance

OLTP Workload ...................................................................................................................................................... 32

DSS Workload ........................................................................................................................................................ 33

FCoE Traffic and the Read-to-Write Ratio .............................................................................................................. 34

Fibre Channel Throughput ...................................................................................................................................... 36

Availability after Hardware Failures

For More Information

Cisco Unified Computing System Kernel Settings (/etc/sysctl.conf) ........................................................................ 40

Multipath Settings (/etc/multipath.conf) ................................................................................................................... 41