Cisco Cisco UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server White Paper

 

 

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This kind of a set up is useful for programs that perform intensive row-by-row processing. 

Figure 3.    Database Server Hosting Batch Server 

 

 

The process scheduler runs Oracle PeopleSoft batch processes. Just as in the Oracle PeopleSoft architecture, you 

can set up the process scheduler (batch server) to run from a database server or any other server. 

As specified in the best practices it is always advisable to install the batch server on the database server if you 

have enough server resources to accommodate the batch server along with the database, so that processing will 

be faster.  

For the Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll for North America benchmark activity, each tier was run on a discrete server or 

servers (Figure 4). The test used the same three-tier setup that was used for benchmarking the self-service load 

(search and retrieval). The batch servers were run on the database server tier. Two batch servers were set up on 

the 2-node Oracle RAC, each running on one of the Oracle RAC nodes. This approach was used not only as a 

best practice to get the best use from the database server resource, but also to override the COBOL compiler 

license limitation for running COBOL SQL processes on a single batch server in the Cisco lab setup.