Demonstrating vMotion capabilities with Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere

DEMONSTRATING VMOTION CAPABILITIES WITH ORACLE RAC ON
VMWARE VSPHERE

Oracle Database products have long been a mainstay of the relational database
market, on which many businesses and organizations run their most critical systems.
When it comes to this critical application stack layer, these organizations demand the
ultimate in uptime and reliability, and have traditionally had to sacrifice some flexibility
and agility to achieve these goals. In the last decade, virtualization has led to a
convergence where organizations need not choose between uptime and flexibility. Now,
with the features and large maximum configurations available with VMware vSphere
5.1, VMware vMotion can distribute and transition workloads of large Oracle RAC
configurations seamlessly between the physical nodes in a VMware vSphere cluster.
VMware vMotion can simplify previously time-consuming tasks such as moving
VMs between physical servers for maintenance or distributing VMs to optimize
processing power during peak workload times. Reducing the migration time required to
complete these tasks is critical, along with executing the migration reliably.
In the Principled Technologies labs, we set up a VMware vSphere 5.1 cluster
using three Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers and EMC VMAX Cloud Edition storage.
Each server contained one virtual machine (VM) that was a member of an Oracle Real
Application Cluster. The Oracle RAC configuration ran a large Oracle Database 11g
Release 2 database with 156 GB of memory. Using VMware vMotion technology, we
were able to easily transition VMs to other servers in the cluster without downtime.

SEPTEMBER 2013

A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by VMware, Inc.

VMWARE VMOTION FOR VM MIGRATION
VMware vMotion, a feature of VMware vSphere, performs live migrations that
transition entire running virtual machines from one physical host to another, without
forcing the workload to stop. vMotion transfers the entire execution state of the VMs,
by breaking down elements to move the networking and SCSI device connections and
the active physical memory of the VM. With VMware vMotion, administrators can fully
automate migration and schedule migrations to occur without further intervention. If
desired, vSphere can use VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to
dynamically load balance workloads across the hosts within a VMware vSphere cluster
in real time using vMotion.
VMware vSphere 5.1 includes multi-NIC vMotion capabilities to move vMotion
data over the network as quickly as possible to minimize any impact to migrating
workloads. VMware vMotion strives to keep workload transfers imperceptible to end
users, which allows you to minimize maintenance windows and maintain service level
agreements (SLAs) without hassle.
Quick and successful virtual machine migrations are a key part of running a
virtualized infrastructure. When using migration for maintenance purposes, keeping
maintenance windows to a minimum requires a reliable migration solution, such as
VMware vMotion, to minimize any impact on end users relying on the applicable
workload. Migration performance also makes a difference in maintaining SLAs with
customers, which indicates the quality of service. VMware vSphere not only transitions
VMs from host to host, but also utilizes migration technologies of VMware vSphere
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to balance workloads across hosts dynamically
and automatically.

VMware vMotion transitioned database VMs with ease
In our setup, we created a three-server VMware vSphere 5.1 cluster using Cisco
UCS servers and EMC VMAX Cloud Edition storage. The configuration used a single VM
per ESX host. Each VM was allocated 156 GB of memory with Oracle 11g Release 2
(11.2.0.3) being used as the database. For detailed hardware information, see Appendix
A. For detailed steps on how tested, see Appendix B.
The initial test included a single vMotion operation, proving that vMotion is
capable of transitioning a large Oracle RAC instance without issue. Figure 1 shows how
we completed our single vMotion test, in which we migrated the VM from host A to
host B. This test mimics a scenario where host A must be taken offline for maintenance,
but the large database workload is mission-critical, and must continue to run.

Demonstrating vMotion capabilities with Oracle RAC on VMware
vSphere

A Principled Technologies test report 2

Figure 1: Diagram of our single vMotion test, where we migrated the VM from host A to host B.

To put the vMotion technology and the hardware stack to the test, we then ran
two additional tests, doing a double vMotion and then a triple vMotion. While these
exact scenarios are less likely to reflect everyday practice, they show the flexibility and
durability that VMware vMotion provides when moving large database workloads.
Figure 2 shows how we completed our double vMotion test, in which we transitioned
the VM from host A to host B and the VM from host B to host A.

Figure 2: Diagram of our double vMotion test, where we swapped VMs on hosts A and B.

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Figure 3 shows how we completed our triple vMotion test, where we migrated
VMs from each host to another.

Figure 3: Diagram of our triple vMotion test, where we migrated VMs in a round-robin formation across the three hosts.

WHAT WE FOUND
Our full vMotion test consisted of a 40-minute window. First, we began an
active TPC-C like workload, using Benchmark Factory for Databases, to exercise the
hardware and software stack. While the TPC-C like workload ran, we performed a single
vMotion, the double vMotion, and then the triple vMotion – all while the workload
continued to service requests to the client application. Between the single vMotion and
the double vMotion event, we reset the VMs onto their original physical hosts.
To show the impact of the moving VMs from host to host, we measured the
processor utilization of each host before, during, and after each vMotion occurred (see
Figure 4). Each of the before and after CPU utilization percentages are an average taken
from a 90-second sample.

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Core utilization percentage for each VMware vSphere host
State
Time (s)
Host A
Host B
Before (90s)
32.56
31.12
Single vMotion
(Host A -> Host B)

Host C
29.71

During

130

41.16

26.34

0.57

60.49

31.51

34.28

After (90s)

46.89

31.55

31.85

28.42

53.12

53.15

Double vMotion
(Host B -> Host C)
(Host C -> Host B)

Before (90s)
After (90s)*

33.89

31.91

31.25

Triple vMotion
(Host A -> Host B)
(Host B -> Host C)
(Host C -> Host A)

Before (90s)

33.67

33.09

31.65

45.14

49.96

52.90

31.01

31.31

35.32

During

During
After (90s)*

155

180

Figure 4: Processor utilization of each host during our vMotion tests. *Following these vMotion events, we allowed the workload
and Oracle distribution to stabilize. The core utilization percentages here refer specifically to the 90-second interval during which
the workload returned to pre-vMotion levels.

Figure 5 illustrates the core utilization of the hosts throughout our testing.

Figure 5: Core utilization percentage of each host during our vMotion tests.

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We also measured NIC throughput during each of the vMotion events. Figure 6
shows the resulting networking traffic in each vMotion event. In the single vMotion,
Host A mainly sent data to Host B, and Host C’s vMotion network remained unaffected.
In the double vMotion event, both Host B and Host C sent and received the vMotion
data, because the VMs residing on those hosts swapped places. Finally, during the third
and final vMotion event, all three hosts’ vMotion networks sent and received data.

(Mbps)
Single vMotion
Double vMotion
Triple vMotion

NIC throughput during vMotion events
Host A
Host B
Transmitted
Received
Transmitted
Received
10,618.19
35.59
35.49
10,668.66
0.14
0.16
9,109.14
10,477.86
7,792.56
8,216.34
8,178.27
7,757.70

Host C
Transmitted
Received
0.14
0.16
9,199.56
10,487.98
7,695.30
7,846.09

Figure 6: Throughput during vMotion events.

In the configuration we tested, the transactions per second from the hardware
and software stack reached a maximum of 3,654 TPS. As with any live migration event,
the performance was affected during each of the vMotions – the single, double, and
triple vMotion. For the single vMotion, the TPS returned to pre-migration levels within
160 seconds, including the migration window. For the double vMotion, the TPS returned
to pre-migration levels within 345 seconds, including the migration window. For the
triple vMotion, the TPS returned to pre-migration levels within 350 seconds, including
the migration window.

WHAT WE TESTED
About our database configuration
About our Oracle configuration
We created a new VM, installed Oracle Enterprise Linux on the VM, and
configured the VM with 156GB RAM and 16 vCPUs. For the RAM, we reserved 145GB for
the memory reservation in the VM settings. Each VM had a 60GB virtual disk, on which
we created three logical volumes: root (15GB), swap (20GB), and oracle-software (/u01)
(40GB) during the OS installation.
We made the necessary networking adjustments and prepared the VM for
Oracle installation prerequisites (see Appendix B). Additionally, we configured other OS
settings, such as stopping unneeded services, configuring NTP, setting the tuned profile
to enterprise-storage, and setting the system’s kernel parameters in sysctl.conf .
After cloning this VM twice, we installed Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release
2 (11.2.0.3.0) for Linux x86-64 on the VMs on all nodes. We created additional the
Oracle ASM disk groups, and then installed and configured the Oracle database. For

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each database instance, we assigned 145GB for the System Global Area (SGA) and
3,686MB for the Process Global Area (PGA) aggregate target (pga_aggregrate_target).
Finally, we used the Benchmark Factory for Databases tool to generate the
initial database schema, which we modified as we note in Appendix B. We used a
benchmark scale of 5,000 in Benchmark Factory’s TPC-C like workload generator to
create approximately 320GB of data, and we configured Benchmark Factory to create
the tables and indices. We specified the placement of the tables on tablespace USRS and
the indices on tablespace INDX. For greater detail, including schema scripts, see
Appendix B.
About Benchmark Factory for Databases
To measure database performance, we used the Benchmark Factory for
Databases tool, which lets you conduct database workload replay, industry-standard
benchmark testing, and scalability testing. It enables you to deploy changes to your
database environment with confidence by reducing the risks associated with patches,
upgrades, migrations, and adjustments to virtual machine configurations. With this
workload replay and scheduling software, you can eliminate slow SQL database
performance and dramatically simplify high-performance database management. We
used an OLTP database test in Benchmark Factory to run a TPC-C-like workload.
For more information, visit http://www.quest.com/benchmark-factory/.

About our VMware vSphere and vCenter Server configuration
About VMware vSphere and vCenter Server
VMware vSphere is the flagship platform of virtualized hardware from VMware.
vSphere allows companies to virtualize their server, storage, and networking resources,
achieving a consolidation ratio in some cases greater than 15:1. Features included in
vSphere include automated management and dynamic resource allocation. To learn
more about VMware vSphere, visit
www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html.
According to VMware, vCenter Server “provides a centralized platform for
managing VMware vSphere environments.” vCenter offers visibility into a vSphere
infrastructure to analyze and fix issues. Features such as automated load balancing and
out-of-the-box automation workflows create automated proactive management.
vCenter can work with third-party solutions to extend its virtualization capabilities. For
more information, visit www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/.
About our VMware vSphere networking configuration
We created two vSphere-distributed switches for cluster networks: the first for
VM management, Oracle Application, and RAC interconnects; the second for vMotion
traffic. Each had a maximum MTU of 9,000 bytes, and used two uplink ports (physical
NICs). We added the three hosts to each distributed vSwitch with physical NICs vmnic0

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and vmnic1 as uplinks for the first switch, and NICs vmnic2 and vmnic3 as uplinks for the
second switch.
For the vMotion network specifically, we setup multi-NIC vMotion on the
vSphere hosts according to VMware best practices1. In the Networking inventory area of
the vSphere client, we created two VMkernels on the vMotion distributed-vSwitch. We
assigned one portgroup on the vMotion subnet to each, and configured teaming and
failover. For the first VMkernel, we assigned the first uplink as active and the second as
standby. On the second, we assigned the first uplink as standby and the second as
active. The vMotion network used Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000).
Our VM virtual NICs used the VMXNET3 type, as it offers the latest
paravirtualized benefits for VM NICs.

Figure 7: Each server in our test bed had two physical NICs assigned for the vMotion network.

About EMC VMAX Cloud Edition
“Built upon the industry-proven scale-out Virtual Matrix Architecture delivered
by the EMC Symmetrix VMAX family,” the enterprise-grade, storage-as-a-service VMAX
Cloud Edition from EMC offers service providers and enterprises a self-service portal for
building private, public, and hybrid clouds. VMAX Cloud Edition is the first of its kind to
deliver enterprise-class storage for multitenant use with automated delivery levels of
service. With two physical appliance servers that make up the core of its architecture
running VMware ESXi and protected by VMware High Availability, VMAX Cloud Edition
comes pre-configured and pre-engineered for the specific needs of enterprises. For

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more information about EMC VMAX Cloud Edition, see
www.emc.com/storage/symmetrix-vmax/vmax-cloud-edition.htm.
About our EMC VMAX Cloud Edition configuration
In our labs, EMC engineers configuration the VMAX Cloud Edition array
according to best practices. We coordinated with EMC VMAX Cloud Edition engineers on
portal access, cabling, service levels, and monitoring.

Figure 8: Diagram of the VMAX Cloud Edition

We followed EMC’s best practices for allocating high-performance storage
volumes for the vSphere datastores associated with the Oracle data and temporary
tablespaces. From the VMAX Cloud Edition Web Portal, we created volumes in the
DIAMOND-1 level and GOLD-4 service bands. The volume in the DIAMOND-1 service
band held the virtual disks containing the Oracle database and Oracle temporary data.
The GOLD-4 volumes held virtual disks containing operating system data, as well as the
remaining Oracle disks (tablespaces for redo logs, system files, and undo logs). (See
Figure 9.)

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Figure 9: Logical layout of Oracle storage on the EMC VMAX Cloud Edition.

About Cisco UCS infrastructure
The Cisco UCS infrastructure features a converged fabric where all systems
management and configuration originates from a pair of redundant layer 2 network
switches called Fabric Interconnects (FI). This allows management of large-scale
deployments from a single location. The FI is a convergence and distribution point that
combines traffic from SAN, management, and data networks into a single converged
network that connects directly to the managed compute nodes. As a network scales out
and requires multiple layer 2 Fabric Interconnects, Cisco UCS Central consolidates all
management systems together into one dashboard. A pair of Fabric Extenders (FEX)
connects each Cisco blade chassis to the Fabric Interconnects. With UCS Manager, all
firmware versions and updates can apply to existing servers, new nodes, and other
hardware with the click of a mouse. For more information, visit
www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html.
In our test bed, we configured the UCS 5108 Blade Server chassis with four
cables coming from each FEX (eight in total), going into two UCS 6248UP FI. Each FI was
then cabled via four 10Gb Ethernet port and one 8GB FC port to two Cisco Nexus
5548UP switches, with two Ethernet links from each FI connected to each switch,
resulting in a fully redundant infrastructure. We aggregated each set of four Ethernet
ports into a port channel to ensure maximum bandwidth.

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Figure 10: Diagram of the Cisco components in our test bed.

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IN CONCLUSION
With today’s technologies, you can run large mission-critical databases on
virtual machines safely and securely. Creating virtual servers to host databases, instead
of running them on physical servers, has the potential to provide a number of time- and
cost-saving benefits to your organization, as you can take advantage of the many
powerful features and tools that VMware vSphere offers including vMotion, DRS, and
much more. We designed this functional stress test to test the complete hardware and
software stack, which was comprised of VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, and EMC VMAX
Cloud Edition storage. The EMC VMAX Cloud Edition absorbed the workload’s requested
storage throughput. The Cisco B200 M3 servers were able to supply the processing
power necessary for the workload. The Cisco Nexus switches, despite using only at a
fraction of their maximum capacity in this test, allowed for the required network
throughput, including the vMotion traffic. This physical infrastructure, used in concert
with VMware vSphere, allowed vMotions to occur and the RAC application to remain
active despite the migration scenarios we tested, some of which were more extreme
than database administrators would typically encounter. The tests experienced no false
ejections or RAC cluster fencing operations, showing the mature capabilities of VMware
vMotion technology.
As we showed in our tests using Cisco UCS server hardware and EMC VMAX
Cloud Edition storage, VMware vSphere with vMotion made it easy to shift large
databases and other workloads from one server to another in a cluster, without
application downtime. By choosing to run your large databases on VMware vSphere
virtual machines, you can reap the benefits of VMware vMotion for the ultimate agility
and flexibility in managing your mission-critical database workloads.

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APPENDIX A – SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Figure 11 provides detailed configuration information for the test systems.
System
General
Number of processor packages
Number of cores per processor
Number of hardware threads per core
System power management policy
CPU
Vendor
Name
Model number
Stepping
Socket type
Core frequency (GHz)
Bus frequency
L1 cache
L2 cache
L3 cache
Platform
Vendor and model number
Motherboard model number
BIOS name and version
BIOS settings
Memory modules
Total RAM in system (GB)
Type
Speed (MHz)
Speed running in the system (MHz)
Size (GB)
Number of RAM module(s)
Chip organization
Rank
Operating system
Name
Build number
Language
RAID controller
Firmware version

3x Cisco UCS B200 M3 server
2
8
2
Default
Intel
Xeon
E5-2680
7
LGA2011
2.7
8.00 GT/s
32KB +32KB
256KB per core
20MB
Cisco UCS B200 M3
Cisco FCH1607GV4
Cisco B200M3.2.1.1a.0.121720121447
Default
320
16x Cisco UCS-MR-1X162RY-A16, 8x Cisco UCS-MR-1X082RY-A
PC3-12800
1,600
1,333
(16x) 16, (8x) 8
24 (16 + 8)
Double-sided
Dual
VMware vSphere 5.1.0
1157734
English
LSI MegaRAID SAS 2004
20.10.1-0100

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System
Hard drives
Number of drives
Size (GB)
RPM
Type
Converged I/O Adapters
Type

3x Cisco UCS B200 M3 server
Seagate A03-D146GC2
2
146
15,000
SAS
Cisco UCSB-MLOM-40G-01, Cisco UCS-VIC-M82-8P
mLOM, Mezzanine

Figure 11: Configuration information for the test systems.

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APPENDIX B - HOW WE TESTED
For our tests, we set up one Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis with two Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric
Interconnects and two Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches. The chassis held three Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers, each with
two Intel Xeon processors E5-2680 and 384GB RAM. For storage, we used one EMC Symmetrix VMAX Cloud Edition
array, provisioned with three levels of storage service, 2,994GB in the DIAMOND-1 level, 18,004 in the GOLD-4 level, and
15.308 in the SILVER-2 level. The storage platform had 48GB of usable cache (96GB raw), and used three types of drives:
16 2TB SATA drives, 106 300GB FC 15K drives, and 24 100GB SSDs. We accessed the storage array from the Cisco Nexus
switches with 8 FC cables, running at 8Gbps each.
For our hypervisor, we used VMware vSphere 5.1 and used VMware vCenter Server 5.1 for management. The
virtual machines on each server ran the Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 x86_64 operating system with the Red Hat kernel.
We configured each VM with 16 vCPUs, 156GB RAM, three vNICs, and tuned the profile to Enterprise storage. For
database software, we used Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for Linux x86-64 (version 11.2.0.3) and Oracle Grid
Infrastructure 11g Release 2 for Linux x86-64 (version 11.2.0.3).
We used Benchmark Factory for Database 6.9.1 as our test harness, along with Oracle Client for Windows.
Figure 12 shows how we set up our test hardware.

Figure 12: A diagram of our complete testbed.

Storage provisioning on the EMC VMAX Cloud Edition array
We followed EMC’s best practices for allocating high-performance storage volumes for the vSphere datastores
associated with the Oracle data and temporary tablespaces. From the VMAX Cloud Edition Web Portal, we created a
2,368 GB volume in the DIAMOND-1 level. We created two 4,064GB volumes in the GOLD-4 level. The first held the
unshared VM operating-system disks and the Oracle REDO volume. The second held the remaining Oracle disks
(tablespaces for redo logs, system files, and undo logs).

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We configured the FC zoning so that the three Cisco blades running the hypervisors could access these volumes.
In vSphere, we created one VMware VMFS datastore on each FC volume, naming the datastores vmax-diam-01,
vmax-gold-01, and vmax-gold-02.

Configure the VMware cluster
We uploaded the Oracle Linux 6.4 x86_64 installation ISO image to a shared datastore. We configured the
hypervisors to use EMC Powerpath/VE to manage the paths to the EMC VMAX Cloud Edition.
We created two distributed vSwitches for cluster networks: the first for VM management, Oracle Application,
and RAC interconnects; the second for vMotion traffic. Each had a maximum MTU of 9000 bytes, and used two uplink
ports (physical NICs). We added the three hosts to each distributed vSwitch with NICs vmnic0 and vmnic1 as uplinks for
the first switch, and NICs vmnic2 and vmnic3 as uplinks for the second switch.
Creating the distributed port groups for the cluster
Create three port groups on the first distributed vSwitch as follows:
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Log onto the vSphere client with administrator privileges.
Press Ctrl-Shift-N to go to the Networking view.
Right-click the first distributed vSwitch, and select New Port Group.
On the Create Distributed Port Group screen, type dManagement for the Name, VLAN for the VLAN type, and
VLAN 10 for the VLAN ID. Click Next.
To create the port group, click Finish.
Right-click the dManagement port group, and select Edit Settings.
On the Settings screen, select Teaming and Failover.
Set the Load Balancing to Route based on originating virtual port, Network Failover Detection to Link status only,
Notify Switches to Yes, and Fallback to Yes.
Move dvUplink1 to Active Uplinks and dvUplink2 to Standby Uplinks.
Click OK.
Repeat Steps 3 through 10 for the dApplication port group with this difference: VLAN ID is 100.
Repeat Steps 3 through 10 for the dRAC port group with these differences: VLAN ID is 101, and move dvUplink2
to Active Uplinks and dvUplink1 to Standby Uplinks.
Create two port groups for vMotion on the second distributed vSwitch as follows:

1. Right-click the second distributed vSwitch, and select New Port Group.
2. On the Create Distributed Port Group screen, enter vMo-01 for the Name, VLAN for the VLAN type, and VLAN
100 for the VLAN ID. Click Next.
3. To create the port group, click Finish.
4. Right-click the vMo-01 port group, and select Edit Settings.
5. On the Settings screen, select Teaming and Failover.
6. Set the Load Balancing to Route based on originating virtual port, Network Failover Detection to Link status only,
Notify Switches to Yes, and Fallback to Yes.
7. Move dvUplink1 to Active Uplinks and dvUplink2 to Standby Uplinks.
8. Click OK.
9. Repeat Steps 1 through 8 for the vMo-02 port group with these differences: move dvUplink2 to Active Uplinks
and dvUplink1 to Standby Uplinks.
Configuring the hypervisors to use the distributed port groups
For each hypervisor, add three VMkernels for VMware management and vMotion as follows:
1. Log onto the vSphere client with administrator privileges.
2. Press Ctrl-Shift-H to go to the Hosts and Clusters view.
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Select the first host, and click the Configuration tab.
Select Networking.
Select vSphere Distributed Switch.
Select the first distributed vSwitch.
Click Manage Virtual Adapters.
On the Manage Virtual Adapters screen, click Add.
On the Creation Type screen, select New virtual adapter, and click Next.
On the Virtual Adapter Types, select VMkernel, and click Next.
On the Network Connection screen, select the dManagement port group, select Use this virtual adapter for
management traffic, and click Next.
Enter the IP Address and Subnet Mask (e.g., 10.4.1.231/255.255.255.0 for the first host,
10.4.1.232/255.255.255.0 for the second, and 10.4.1.233/255.255.255.0 for the third), and click Next.
To create the VMware Management VMkernel, click Finish.
On the Manage Virtual Adapters screen, click Close.
Select the second distributed vSwitch.
Click Manage Virtual Adapters.
On the Network Connection screen, select the vMo-01 port group, select Use this virtual adapter for vMotion,
and click Next.
Enter the IP Address and Subnet Mask (e.g., 172.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 for the first host, 172.0.0.2/255.255.255.0
for the second host, and 172.0.0.3/255.255.255.0 for the third), and click Next.
On the Manage Virtual Adapters screen, select the new VMkernel, and click Edit.
On the Edit Virtual Adapter screen, enter 9000 for the MTU, and click OK.
On the Network Connection screen, select the vMo-02 port group, select Use this virtual adapter for vMotion,
and click Next.
Enter the IP Address and Subnet Mask (e.g., 172.0.0.9/255.255.255.0 for the first host,
172.0.0.10/255.255.255.0 for the second host, and 172.0.0.11/255.255.255.0 for the third), and click Next.
On the Manage Virtual Adapters screen, select the new VMkernel, and click Edit.
On the Edit Virtual Adapter screen, enter 9000 for the MTU, and click OK.
On the Manage Virtual Adapters screen, click Close.

Creating the first VM and provisioning VMware disks for Oracle and the operating systems
We created VMware disks for only one VM because we cloned two VMs from the first VM (which duplicated the
operating system and application disks), and the VMs share the Oracle disks so that only one copy is needed.
Installing the operating system on the first VM
1. Log onto the vSphere client with administrator privileges.
2. Right-click on the datacenter, and select New Virtual Machine.
3. Select Custom configuration, and click Next.
4. Enter node01 for Name, and click Next.
5. Select one host in the VMware cluster, and click Next.
6. Select the datastore for OS disks created previously (i.e., vmax-gold-01), and click Next.
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On the Virtual Machine Version screen, keep the defaults, and click Next.
Select Linux for the Guest Operating System, and Oracle Linux 4/5/6 as the Version, and click Next.
Type 1 for the Number of Virtual sockets and 16 for the Number of cores per virtual socket. Click Next.
Type 156GB for the memory size, and click Next.
Select 3 NICs. For each, click Connect at Power On and select VMXNET 3 as the adapter. The first NIC connects to
Network dManagement, the second NIC to dApplication, and the third to dRAC. Click Next.
Keep the default SCSI controller, and click Next.
Type 60GB for the size of the Virtual disk, to be created as Thick Provision Eager Zeroed, and click Next.
Keep the default Virtual Device Node, and click Next.
Select Edit the virtual machine settings before completion, and click Continue.
Select CD/DVD drive 1, select Datastore ISO file, click Browse, navigate to the datastore with the Oracle Linux
installation ISO, select the ISO, and click OK.
Select Connect at power on.
Select the Resources Tab.
Select Memory, and enter 148480MB for the resource reservation.
To create the VM, click OK.
Power on the new VM.
Open a console window.
On the Welcome to Oracle Linux Server 6.4 screen, select Install or upgrade an existing system, and press Enter.
On the test media screen, select Skip, and press Enter.
On the Oracle Linux 6 screen, click Next.
Select the installation language (e.g., English), and click Next.
Select the installation keyboard style (e.g., U.S. English), and click Next.
On the Storage Device screen, select Basic Storage Devices, and click Next.
On the Storage Device Warning screen, review the disk information for accuracy, and click Yes, discard any data.
Enter node01 for the hostname, and click Next.
Select the time zone (e.g., America/New York), select System clock uses UTC, and click Next.
Enter the root password (twice), and click Next.
On the type of installation screen, select Replace Existing Linux System(s), check Review and modify partitioning
layout, and click Next.
On the partitioning layout screen, select the lv_root logical volume, and click Edit.
On the Edit Logical Volume screen, change the size to 15360MB, and click OK.
Select the lv_swap logical volume, and click Edit.
Change its size to 20480MB, and click OK.
Select the lv_home logical volume, and click Edit.
Change the name of the lv_home logical volume to lv_opt. Change its mount point to /u01, and change its size
to the maximum available (approximately 25000MB). Click OK.
On the partitioning layout screen, click Next.
On the Format Warnings screen, click Format.
Click Write changes to disk.
On the boot-loader screen, accept the defaults, and click Next.
Select Basic Server, Customize Later, and click Next.
Click Reboot.

Configuring the guest for Oracle RAC
1. Log onto the guest as root.
2. Replace the content of the file /etc/resolv.conf with the following:
nameserver 10.1.1.10
search t1.vvv
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3. Add the default network gateway to /etc/sysconfig/network, e.g., GATEWAY=10.4.0.1.
4. Disable SELinux, by changing the line SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled in the file
/etc/selinux/config.
5. Modify the file /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 as follows, being careful to retain the device’s MAC
address:
DEVICE=eth0
## Be sure to use the MAC address for this VM’s first NIC
HWADDR=00:50:56:AD:07:12
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPV6INIT=no
IPADDR=10.4.1.232
PREFIX=24
address:
DEVICE=eth1
## Be sure to use the MAC address for this VM’s second NIC
HWADDR=00:50:56:AD:14:41
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPV6INIT=no
IPADDR=10.1.1.101
PREFIX=24
address:
DEVICE=eth1
## Be sure to use the MAC address for this VM’s third NIC
HWADDR=00:50:56:AD:A7:95
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPV6INIT=no
IPADDR=192.168.1.101
PREFIX=24
MTU=9000
8. Create Oracle users and groups by running these shell commands:
groupadd -g 1001 oinstall
groupadd -g 1002 dba
groupadd -g 1003 asmadmin
groupadd -g 1004 asmdba
useradd -u 1002 -g oinstall -G dba,asmadmin,asmdba oracle
useradd -u 1003 -g oinstall -G dba,asmadmin,asmdba grid
echo 'ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1'
>> ~oracle/.bash_profile
echo 'ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/11.2.0/grid' >> ~grid/.bash_profile
for i in oracle grid; do
(
echo 'PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin'
echo 'export PATH ORACLE_HOME'
echo 'umask 0022'
) >> /home/$i/.bash_profile
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done

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mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
mkdir /u01/app/grid
chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app
chmod -R g+w /u01/app
Create passwords for the oracle and grid accounts with passwd.
The following services are disabled as follows:
for i in autofs certmonger cups iptables ip6tables netfs nfs
nfslock portreserve postfix rpcbind rpcgssd rpcidmapd; do
chkconfig $i off
service $i stop
done
Enable the following time services:
chkconfig ntpd on
chkconfig ntpdate on
Modify the NTP configuration by adding your local NTP servers to /etc/ntp.conf.
Modify the behavior of NTP by appending “-x” to its OPTIONS list in the file /etc/sysconfig/ntpd
Install the following packages:
yum install binutils compat-libstdc++-33 elfutils-libelf
elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-libelf-devel-static gcc gcc-c++
glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers ksh libaio
libaio-devel libgcc libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make sysstat
unixODBC unixODBC-devel compat-libcap1
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 glibc.i686 libaio.i686
libaio-devel.i686 libattr.i686 libcap.i686 libgcc.i686
libstdc++.i686 libtool-ltdl.i686 ncurses-libs.i686
nss-softokn-freebl.i686 readline.i686 unixODBC.i686 unixODBC-devel.i686
yum install libdmx libX11 libX11-common libX11-devel libXau
libXau-devel libxcb-devel libXcomposite libXcursor libXdamage
libXext libXext-devel libXfixes libXfont libXft libXi libXinerama
clibXmu libXrandr libXrender libXScrnSaver libXScrnSaver-devel libXt
libXtst libXv libXxf86dga libXxf86misc libXxf86vm
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-proto-devel xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauth
yum install tuned oracleasm-support kmod-oracleasm kernel-devel
Install VMware Tools by right clicking on the VM in vSphere and selecting GuestInstall/Upgrade VMware
Tools. Click OK.
From the login shell, mount /dev/sr0 /mnt.
Run tar zxf /mnt/VMwareTools*gz.
Run ./vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl and accept the defaults.
Set the tuned profile to enterprise storage:
tune-adm profile enterprise-storage
Disable anonymous hugepages by appending the following lines to /etc/rc.local:
if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled; then
echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
fi
if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; then
echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
fi
Append the following to /etc/security/limits.conf:

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oracle - nofile 65536
oracle - nproc
16384
oracle - stack
32768
oracle - memlock 152043520
grid
- nofile 65536
grid
- nproc
16384
grid
- stack
32768
22. We modified the system’s kernel parameters by appending the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:
kernel.shmmax = 83751862272
# Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
fs.file-max = 6815744
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_max = 1048576
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmmni = 4096
vm.nr_hugepages = 74251
23. Update the RPM packages:
yum update -y
24. Edit the file /etc/grub.conf, and change the default kernel from the Oracle UEK to the most recent (highest
numbered) Red Hat kernel.
25. Shut down the VM:
shutdown –h now
Cloning the first VM to create the remaining VMs
We created the next two VMs as clones of the first. After cloning in vSphere, we booted the new VMs one at a
time to update their hostnames and network configurations as follows:
1. Log onto the VM as root.
2. Change the hostname from node01 to node02 (node03) by altering the HOSTNAME line in the file
/etc/sysconfig/network.
3. Record the VM’s MAC addresses for each NIC by running the command ipconfig –a
4. Update the configuration of the first NIC by altering two lines in the file /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0:
Replace the HWADDR with the MAC address found in the previous step, and replace the IPADDR with 10.4.1.102
for the second VM (10.4.1.103 for the third).
5. Update the configuration of the second NIC by altering two lines in the file /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfgeth0: Replace the HWADDR with the MAC address found in step 4, and replace the IPADDR with 10.1.1.102 for
the second VM (10.1.1.103 for the third).
6. Update the configuration of the third NIC by altering two lines in the file /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfgeth0: Replace the HWADDR with the MAC address found in step 4, and replace the IPADDR with 192.168.1.102
for the second VM (192.168.1.103 for the third).
7. Shut down the VM:
shutdown –h now

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Creating and configuring the shared disks for Oracle.
We created the shared disks by editing the configuration of the first VM, and then added the disks to the other
VMs.
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Log onto vSphere with administrator privileges.
Right-click on the first VM, and select Edit Settings.
On the Virtual Machine Properties screen, click Add to create the first Oracle-Grid Voting disk.
On the Add Hardware screen, select Hard Disk, and click Next.
Select Create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
Enter 20GB for the Disk Size, to be created as Thick Provision Eager Zeroed, and select vmax-gold-02 as its
datastore. Click Next.
Select SCSI (1:0) for the Virtual device Node. Select Independent Mode and Persistent. Click Next.
To add this disk to the creation tasks, click Finish.
Select the New SCSI Controller (for bus 1) from the list of Hardware, and click Change Type. On the pop-up
screen, select VMware Paravirtual, and click OK.
Repeat steps 3 through 8 for the second and third Voting disks (20GB) with these differences: place the second
disk on SCSI 1:1, and the third disk on SCSI 1:2.
Create the Oracle data disk by repeating steps 3 through 8 with these differences: use datastore vmax-diam-01,
size it at 1TB, and place it on SCSI 1:3.
Create the Oracle temporary disk by repeating steps 3 through 8 with these differences: use datastore vmaxdiam-01, size it at 800GB, and place it on SCSI 1:4
Create the Oracle system disk by repeating steps 3 through 8 with these differences: use datastore vmax-gold02, size it at 100GB, and place it on SCSI 1:5.
Create the Oracle REDO disk by repeating steps 3-8 with these differences: use datastore vmax-gold-02, size it at
200, and place it on SCSI 2:0.
Select the New SCSI Controller (for bus 2) from the list of Hardware, and click Change Type. On the pop-up
Click OK to close the Virtual Machine Properties screen and create the virtual disks.
After the disks are created, right-click the first VM, and select Edit Settings.
On the Virtual Machine Properties screen, select the Options Tab.
Under Advanced settings, click General.
Click Configuration Parameters.
On the Configuration Parameters screen, click Add Row. Enter scsi1:0.sharing for Name, and multiwriter for value.
Repeat step 21 for each of the shared disks, changing the Name (scsi1:1, …, scsci1:6, and scsi2:0).
Click OK.
To close the Virtual Machine Properties screen, click OK.
To add the shared disks to the second VM, right-click the first VM, and select Edit Settings.
On the Virtual Machine Properties screen, click Add to create the first Oracle-Grid Voting disk.
On the Add Hardware screen, select Hard Disk, and click Next.
Select Use an existing virtual disk, and click Next.
On the Select Existing Disk screen, click Browse.
Select the vmax-gold-02 datastore, and click Open.
On the Browse Datastores screen, select node01, and click Open.
Select disk node01.vmdk, and click OK.
On the Select Existing Disk screen, click Next.
Select SCSI (1:0) for the Virtual device Node. Select Independent Mode and Persistent. Click Next.
To add this disk to the creation tasks, click Finish.

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36. Select the New SCSI Controller (for bus 1) from the list of Hardware, and click Change Type. On the pop-up
37. Repeat steps 26 through 35 for the second Voting disk with these differences: use existing disk
node01/node01_1.vmdk on datastore vmax-gold-02 and place it on SCSI 1:1.
38. Repeat steps 26 through 35 for the third Voting disk with these differences: use existing disk
39. Repeat steps 26 through 35 for the Oracle data disk with these differences: use existing disk
node01/node01.vmdk on datastore vmax-diamond-01 and place it on SCSI 1:3.
40. Repeat steps 26 through 35 for the Oracle temporary disk with these differences: use existing disk
node01/node01_1.vmdk on datastore vmax-diamond-01 and place it on SCSI 1:4.
41. Repeat steps 26 through 35 for the Oracle system disk with these differences: use existing disk
42. Repeat steps 26-35 for the Oracle miscellaneous disk with these differences: use existing disk
43. Repeat steps 26 through 35 for the Oracle REDO disk with these differences: use existing disk
44. Select the New SCSI Controller (for bus 2) from the list of Hardware, and click Change Type. On the pop-up
45. Repeat steps 16 through 24 to complete the addition of the shared disks for the second VM.
46. Repeat steps 25 through 44 to add the shared disks to the third VM.
47. Boot the three VMs.
48. Log onto the first VM as root. The following tasks, shared disk partitioning and ASM disk marking, need be
performed only once on a single system. However, as noted below, ASM configuration must be performed on
each system.
49. Examine the output of parted to determine which device each virtual disk has been mapped to. For example,
/dev/sdb might correspond to the first REDO disk. We assume for the purposes of demonstration that the
shared disks correspond to devices /dev/sd[b-i], inclusive.
parted -l
50. For each of the eight shared disks, create a GPT label, and create one partition.. For example, see the following
shell script:
for disk in sdb sdc sdd sde sdf sdg sdh sdi; do
parted /dev/$disk mklabel gpt
parted /dev/$disk mkpart primary "1 -1"
done
51. If desired, label the disk’s partition with its Oracle function. For example,
parted /dev/sdb name 1 CRS1
parted /dev/sdc name 1 CRS2
parted /dev/sdd name 1 CRS3
parted /dev/sde name 1 DATA
parted /dev/sdf name 1 TEMP
parted /dev/sdg name 1 SYST
parted /dev/sdh name 1 MISC
parted /dev/sdi name 1 REDO
52. Initialize Oracle ASM on each server by executing the following commands as root on each node.
oracleasm init
oracleasm configure -e -u grid -g oinstall -s y -x sda
53. Label each shared disk-partition with an appropriate ASM name. For example, following the OS partition names
created above, execute the following commands on one system:
oracleasm createdisk CRS1 /dev/sdb1
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oracleasm createdisk CRS2 /dev/sdc1
oracleasm createdisk CRS3 /dev/sdd1
oracleasm createdisk DATA /dev/sde1
oracleasm createdisk TEMP /dev/sdf1
oracleasm createdisk SYST /dev/sdg1
oracleasm createdisk MISC /dev/sdh1
oracleasm createdisk REDO /dev/sdi1
54. On each server, scan the disks to make the disks immediately available to Oracle ASM.
oracleasm scandisks
oracleasm listdisks

Creating the Oracle RAC Database (version 11.2.0.3)
Installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2 for Linux x86-64 on the VMs
We used the following steps to configure the Oracle RAC Database. Figure 13 shows the logical layout of the VM
networking, the Oracle cluster network, and the incoming application network.

Figure 13: Logical layout of VM networking.

1. Log into the server as the grid account.
2. Set the X Window DISPLAY variable as appropriate for your configuration.
3. Unzip the Oracle Grid Infrastructure software distribution file.
unzip p10404530_112030_Linux-x86-64_3of7.
4. Run the Grid Infrastructure GUI installer.
./grid/runInstaller
5. On the Download Software Updates screen, select Skip software updates, and click Next.
6. On the Select Installation Option screen, select Install and Configure Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster, and click
Next.
7. On the Select Installation Type screen, select Advanced Installation and click Next.
8. On the Select Product Languages screen, keep the default (English), and click Next.
9. On the Grid Plug and Play Information screen, deselect Configure GNS, enter clust00 for the Cluster Name,
clust00-scan.t1.vvv for the SCAN Name, and click Next.
10. On the Cluster Node Information screen, click Add.

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11. On the Add Cluster Node Information pop-up screen, enter node02.t1.vvv, and node02-vip.t1.vv for the Public
and Virtual Hostnames, respectively, and click OK.
12. Repeat step 11 for the third node.
13. Click SSH Connectivity.
14. Enter the OS password for the grid user account, click Next.
15. On the Specify Network Interface Usage screen, set eth0 to Do Not Use, eth1 to Public, and eth2 to Private, and
click Next.
16. On the Storage Option Information screen, select Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM), and
click Next.
17. On the Create ASM Disk Group screen, click Change Discovery Path.
18. On the Change Discovery Path pop-up screen, enter /dev/oracleasm/disks/*, and click OK.
19. Change the Disk Group Name to OCRV.
20. Select Normal Redundancy.
21. Select disks CRS1, CRS2, and CRS3, and click Next.
22. On the Specify ASM Password, select Use same password for these accounts, and enter the ASMSNMP password
(twice), and click Next.
23. On the Failure Isolation Support screen, select Do not use Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), and
click Next.
24. On the Privileged Operating System Groups screen, keep the defaults, and click Next.
25. On the specify Installation location screen, enter /u01/app/grid for Oracle Base, /u01/app/11.2.0/grid for
Software Location, and Click Next.
26. On the Create Inventory screen, enter /u01/app/oraInventory for the Inventory Directory, and click Next.
27. On the Perform Prerequisite Checks screen, click Fix and Check Again (to install the missing cvuqdisk package).
28. On the Execute Fixup Scripts pop-up screen, follow the instructions for running the fix-up script on each node.
Click OK when done.
29. Click Next and after the check is finished.
30. On the Summary screen, click Install.
31. When the Execute Configuration scripts pop-up screen appears, follow the instructions for running the scripts,
and click OK when finished.
32. Click Close to end the installation.
Creating Oracle ASM disk groups for the database
1. Log into the system as the grid user.
3. Start the ASM configuration assistant, asmca.
4. On the Disk Groups tab, click Create.
5. On the Create Disk Group pop-up screen, enter DATA for the Disk Group Name.
6. Select External (None) for Redundancy.
7. Select/dev/oracleasm/disks/ DATA for the Disk Path.
8. Click Show Advanced Options, and change the Allocation Unit Size (ALU) to 4MB.
9. Click OK to create the DATA disk group, and click OK on the completed-task pop-up screen
10. Repeat steps 4-9 to create disk group TEMP from disk /dev/oracleasm/TEMP.
11. Repeat steps 4-9 to create disk group MISC from disk /dev/oracleasm/MISC.
12. Repeat steps 4-9, except that the ALU in step 8 is the default 1MB, to create disk group SYST from disk
/dev/oracleasm/SYST.
13. Repeat steps 4-9, except that the ALU in step 8 is the default 1MB, to create disk group REDO from disk
/dev/oracleasm/REDO.
14. Click Exit to close the ASM configuration assistant.

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Installing the software for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 for Linux x86-64 on the VMs
1. Log into the system as the oracle user.
3. Unzip the Oracle Database software distribution files.
unzip p10404530_112030_Linux-x86-64_1of7.zip
unzip p10404530_112030_Linux-x86-64_2of7.zip
1. Run the Database GUI installer.
./database/runInstaller
2. On the Configure Security Updates screen, unselect I wish to receive security updates via My Oracle Support,
and click Next.
3. On the warning pop-up screen, click Yes.
4. On the Download Software Updates screen, select Skip software updates, and click Next.
5. On the Select Installation Option screen, select Install database software only, and click Next.
6. On the Grid Installation Options screen, select Oracle Real Application Clusters database installation, select the
nodes in the cluster, and click SSH Connectivity.
7. On the Select Product Languages screen, keep the default (e.g., English) and click Next.
8. On the Select Database Edition screen, select Enterprise Edition and click Next.
9. On the Specify Installation Location screen, enter /u01/app/oracle for Oracle Base and
/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 for Software Location and click Next.
10. On the Privileged Operating System Groups screen, keep the defaults and click Next.
11. On the Perform Prerequisite Checks screen, click Next.
12. On the Summary screen, click Install.
13. When the Execute Configurations scripts screen appears, follow the instructions and clock OK.
14. On the final screen, click Close to end the installation.
Creating the database
1. Log into the system as the oracle user.
3. Start the database configuration assistant, dbca.
4. On the Welcome screen, select Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) database, and click Next
5. On the Operations screen, select Create a Database and click Next.
6. On the Database Templates screen, select General Purpose or Transaction Processing, and click Next.
7. On the Database Identification screen, select Admin-Managed, enter oltp.t1.vvv for Global Database Name, oltp
for the SID prefix, and select all three nodes for the cluster. Click Next
8. On the Management Options screen, keep the defaults and click Next.
9. On the Database Credentials screen, select Use the Same Administrative Password for All Accounts, enter the
password twice, and click Next.
10. On the Database File Locations screen, select ASM for Storage Type, select Use Common Location for All
Database Files, enter +SYST for Database Files Locations, and click Next.
11. Enter the ASMSNMP password on the ASM Credentials pop-up screen, and click OK.
12. On the Recovery Configuration screen, keep the defaults, and click Next.
13. On the Database Content screen, keep the defaults and click Next.
14. On the Initialization Parameters screen, click Custom, enter 148480MB for SGA Size, enter 3686MB for PGA Size,
and click Next.
15. On the Database Storage screen, click Redo Log Groups. Modify the configuration so that each of the six groups
has two 5,120,000KB log files on disk-group +REDO. To add the second log-file, left click on the leftmost
rectangle on an empty row in the members-grid, and click Add in the small pop-up window. Click Next when
done.
16. On the Creation Options screen, select Create Database, and click Finish.
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17. On the Summary pop-up screen, click OK.
18. Click Exit on the final pop-up screen to close the configuration assistant.

Configuring the Benchmark Factory workload generator
We installed the 64-bit builds of Quest Software’s Benchmark Factory for Database, version 6.9.1, and Oracle
Client 11.2.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. We replaced the contents of the TNSNAMES.ora and SQLNET.ora files
in folder networkadmin in the Oracle Client directory with the following:
# tnsnames.ora
OLTP=
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS=
(PROTOCOL=TCP)
(HOST=clust00-scan.t1.vvv)
(PORT=1521)
)
(CONNECT_DATA=
(SERVER=dedicated)
(SERVICE_NAME=oltp.t1.vvv)
)
)
# end of tnsnames.ora
# sqlnet.ora
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT)
# end of sqlnet.ora
We used the Load Scenario Wizard in Benchmark Factory to create the components for creating the TCP-C like
database objects and the template for the workload generation. We used a benchmark scale of 5,000 to create
approximately 320GB of data. We configured Benchmark Factory to create the tables and indices with up to three times
the default degree of parallelism. We specified the placement of the tables on tablespace USRS and the indices on
tablespace INDX (see next section). The workload ran for 40 minutes, 20 minutes with 90 users, and 20 minutes with
100. We reduced the transaction latencies by a factor of 1,000 from their default values (to about 10ms).

Creating the Oracle RAC Database for TPC-C like workloads
We created the tablespaces for the data and indices on datastores using the DIAMOND-1 storage. Every other
object was backed by GOLD-4 storage.
We used the following SQL commands to create the tablespaces and users.
CREATE TABLESPACE "USRS" DATAFILE '+DATA/oltp/d16.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,
'+DATA/oltp/d19.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d05.dbf' SIZE 32767M
REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d07.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d14.dbf' SIZE
32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d15.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d20.dbf'
SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d08.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,
32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d12.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d01.dbf'
SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d13.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,

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32767M REUSE, '+DATA/oltp/d10.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE LOGGING EXTENT
MANAGEMENT LOCAL SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;
CREATE TABLESPACE "MISC" DATAFILE '+MISC/oltp/misc14.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,
'+MISC/oltp/misc05.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+MISC/oltp/misc06.dbf' SIZE
32767M REUSE, '+MISC/oltp/misc07.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,
32767M REUSE LOGGING EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE "TEMP" TEMPFILE '+TEMP/oltp/temp01.dbf' SIZE
32767M REUSE, '+TEMP/oltp/temp06.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,
'+TEMP/oltp/temp05.bdf' SIZE 32767M REUSE, '+TEMP/oltp/temp04.dbf' SIZE
32767M REUSE, '+TEMP/oltp/temp03.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE,
'+TEMP/oltp/temp02.dbf' SIZE 32767M REUSE EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM
SIZE 1024K;
ALTER TABLESPACE TEMP TABLESPACE GROUP TMP;
ALTER DATABASE DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TMP;
CREATE USER "OLTP" IDENTIFIED BY "scott" DEFAULT TABLESPACE "USRS" TEMPORARY
TABLESPACE "TMP";
GRANT ALTER SESSION TO "OLTP";
GRANT CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW TO "OLTP";
GRANT CREATE VIEW TO "OLTP";
GRANT QUERY REWRITE TO "OLTP";
GRANT UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO "OLTP";
GRANT EXECUTE ON "SYS"."DBMS_LOCK" TO "OLTP";
GRANT "CONNECT" TO "OLTP";
GRANT "RESOURCE" TO "OLTP";
CREATE USER "HOLDEM" IDENTIFIED BY “scott” DEFAULT TABLESPACE "MISC"
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE "TMP";
GRANT ANALYZE ANY TO "HOLDEM";
GRANT ANALYZE ANY DICTIONARY TO "HOLDEM";
GRANT UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO "HOLDEM";
GRANT "CONNECT" TO "HOLDEM";
GRANT "RESOURCE" TO "HOLDEM";
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter

system
system
system
system
system
system
system
system

set
set
set
set
set
set
set
set

cursor_sharing=force scope=both sid=”*”;
recyclebin=off scope=both sid=”*”;
max_dump_file_size=20M scope=both sid=”*”;
log_checkpoints_to_alert=true scope=both sid=”*”;
audit_trail=none scope=both sid=”*”;
trace_enabled=false scope=both sid=”*”;
star_transformation_enabled=true scope=both sid=”*”;
filesystemio_options=setall scope=both sid=”*”;

vSphere


alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter

system
system
system
system
system
system

set
set
set
set
set
set

fast_start_mttr_target=3600 scope=both sid=”*”;
shared_pool_size=16G scope=both sid=”*”;
large_pool_size=512M scope=both sid=”*”;
shared_pool_reserved_size=896M scope=both sid=”*”;
db_cache_size=125G scope=both sid=”*”;
java_pool_size=512M scope=both sid=”*”;

We created the initial OLTP tables with the Benchmark Factory job, created in the previous section, and then
copied it to the HOLDEM schema. After each workload-generation run, we re-initialized the OLTP tables from the
HOLDEM data, instead of using Benchmark Factory. The following scripts, adapted from those created found at this
Quest website http://www.toadworld.com/products/benchmark-factory/f/45/p/1148/202.aspx.
--- filename - oltp_init.sql
connect oltp/scott
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant

select
select
select
select
select
select
select
select
select

on
on
on
on
on
on
on
on
on

c_customer
c_district
c_history
c_item
c_new_order
c_order
c_order_line
c_stock
c_warehouse

to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to

holdem;
holdem;
holdem;
holdem;
holdem;
holdem;
holdem;
holdem;
holdem;

connect holdem/scott
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop

table
table
table
table
table
table
table
table
table

c_customer
c_district
c_history
c_item
c_new_order
c_order
c_order_line
c_stock
c_warehouse

cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade

create table c_customer
from oltp.c_customer;
create table c_district
from oltp.c_district;
create table c_history
from oltp.c_history;
create table c_item
from oltp.c_item;
create table c_new_order
from oltp.c_new_order;

constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints

purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;

tablespace misc parallel (degree 8) as select *

vSphere


create table c_order
from oltp.c_order;
create table c_order_line
from oltp.c_order_line;
create table c_stock
from oltp.c_stock;
create table c_warehouse
from oltp.c_warehouse;
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant
grant

select
select
select
select
select
select
select
select
select

on
on
on
on
on
on
on
on
on


c_customer
c_district
c_history
c_item
c_new_order
c_order
c_order_line
c_stock
c_warehouse

to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to

oltp;
oltp;
oltp;
oltp;
oltp;
oltp;
oltp;
oltp;
oltp;

begin
DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS
(
OwnName
=> 'HOLDEM'
,Estimate_Percent => SYS.DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE
,Block_sample
=> TRUE
,Method_Opt
=> 'FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS SIZE AUTO '
,Degree
=> 8
,Cascade
=> TRUE
,No_Invalidate
=> TRUE
);
end;
/
exec dbms_stats.gather_dictionary_stats;
exec dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats;
--- filename - tpcc_reset.sql
connect oltp/scott
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop
drop

table
table
table
table
table
table
table
table
table

c_customer
c_district
c_history
c_item
c_new_order
c_order
c_order_line
c_stock
c_warehouse

create table c_customer
from holdem.c_customer;

cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade
cascade

constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints
constraints

purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;
purge;

tablespace usrs parallel (degree

vSphere

9) as select *


create table c_district
from holdem.c_district;
create table c_history
from holdem.c_history;
create table c_item
from holdem.c_item;
create table c_new_order
from holdem.c_new_order;
create table c_order
from holdem.c_order;
create table c_order_line
from holdem.c_order_line;
create table c_stock
from holdem.c_stock;
create table c_warehouse
from holdem.c_warehouse;
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter
alter

table
table
table
table
table
table
table
table
table

c_customer
c_district
c_history
c_item
c_new_order
c_order
c_order_line
c_stock
c_warehouse


3) as select *


9) as select *


3) as select *


6) as select *


9) as select *

tablespace usrs parallel (degree 12) as select *
tablespace usrs parallel (degree 12) as select *

3) as select *

NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;
NOPARALLEL;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_CUSTOMER_I1 ON OLTP.C_CUSTOMER
(C_W_ID, C_D_ID, C_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
PARALLEL (degree 4);
CREATE INDEX C_CUSTOMER_I2 ON OLTP.C_CUSTOMER
(C_LAST, C_W_ID, C_D_ID, C_FIRST)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_DISTRICT_I1 ON OLTP.C_DISTRICT
(D_W_ID, D_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_ITEM_I1 ON OLTP.C_ITEM
(I_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_NEW_ORDER_I1 ON OLTP.C_NEW_ORDER
vSphere


(NO_W_ID, NO_D_ID, NO_O_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_ORDER_I1 ON OLTP.C_ORDER
(O_ID, O_W_ID, O_D_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_ORDER_LINE_I1 ON OLTP.C_ORDER_LINE
(OL_O_ID, OL_W_ID, OL_D_ID, OL_NUMBER)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_STOCK_I1 ON OLTP.C_STOCK
(S_I_ID, S_W_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX C_WAREHOUSE_I1 ON OLTP.C_WAREHOUSE
(W_ID)
NOLOGGING
TABLESPACE INDX
/* Formatted on 2007/02/08 14:25 (Formatter Plus v4.8.8) */
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_delivery (
ware_id
NUMBER,
carrier_id
NUMBER,
order_1
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_2
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_3
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_4
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_5
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_6
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_7
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_8
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_9
IN OUT
NUMBER,
order_10
IN OUT
NUMBER,
retry
IN OUT
NUMBER,
cur_date
IN
DATE
)
AS
TYPE intarray IS TABLE OF INTEGER
INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
order_id
dist_id

intarray;
INTEGER;

vSphere


cust_id
INTEGER;
amount_sum
NUMBER;
no_rowid
ROWID;
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (not_serializable, -8177);
deadlock
EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (deadlock, -60);
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (snapshot_too_old, -1555);
CURSOR o_cur
IS
SELECT
no_o_id, ROWID
FROM c_new_order
WHERE no_w_id = ware_id AND no_d_id = dist_id
ORDER BY no_w_id, no_d_id, no_o_id;
BEGIN
FOR i IN 1 .. 10
LOOP
dist_id := i;
LOOP
BEGIN
OPEN o_cur;
FETCH o_cur
INTO order_id (i), no_rowid;
IF (o_cur%NOTFOUND)
THEN
CLOSE o_cur;
COMMIT;
order_id (i) := 0;
EXIT;
END IF;
CLOSE o_cur;
DELETE FROM c_new_order
WHERE ROWID = no_rowid;
UPDATE c_order
SET o_carrier_id = carrier_id
WHERE o_d_id = dist_id AND o_w_id = ware_id
AND o_id = order_id (i);
SELECT
INTO
FROM
WHERE

o_c_id
cust_id
c_order
o_d_id = dist_id AND o_w_id = ware_id
AND o_id = order_id (i);

vSphere


UPDATE
SET
WHERE
AND
AND

c_order_line
ol_delivery_d = cur_date
ol_d_id = dist_id
ol_w_id = ware_id
ol_o_id = order_id (i);

SELECT
INTO
FROM
WHERE
AND
AND

SUM (ol_amount)
amount_sum
c_order_line
ol_d_id = dist_id
ol_w_id = ware_id
ol_o_id = order_id (i);

UPDATE c_customer
SET c_balance = c_balance + amount_sum,
c_delivery_cnt = c_delivery_cnt + 1
WHERE c_id = cust_id AND c_d_id = dist_id AND c_w_id = ware_id;
COMMIT;
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
WHEN not_serializable OR deadlock OR snapshot_too_old
THEN
ROLLBACK;
retry := retry + 1;
END;
END LOOP;
END LOOP;
order_1 := order_id (1);
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_new_order (
ware_id
NUMBER,
dist_id
NUMBER,
cust_id
NUMBER,
ord_ol_cnt
NUMBER,
ord_all_local
NUMBER,
cust_discount
OUT
NUMBER,
cust_last
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_credit
OUT
VARCHAR2,
vSphere


dist_tax
ware_tax
ord_id
retry
cur_date

OUT
OUT
IN OUT
IN OUT
IN

NUMBER,
NUMBER,
NUMBER,
NUMBER,
DATE

)
AS
dist_rowid
ROWID;
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
deadlock
EXCEPTION;
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
integrity_viol
EXCEPTION;
PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (integrity_viol, -1);
BEGIN
LOOP
BEGIN
SELECT c_district.ROWID, d_tax, d_next_o_id, w_tax
INTO dist_rowid, dist_tax, ord_id, ware_tax
FROM c_district, c_warehouse
WHERE d_id = dist_id AND d_w_id = w_id AND w_id = ware_id;
UPDATE c_district
SET d_next_o_id = ord_id + 1
WHERE ROWID = dist_rowid;
SELECT
INTO
FROM
WHERE

c_discount, c_last, c_credit
cust_discount, cust_last, cust_credit
c_customer
c_id = cust_id AND c_d_id = dist_id AND c_w_id = ware_id;

INSERT INTO c_new_order
VALUES (ord_id, dist_id, ware_id);
INSERT INTO c_order
VALUES (ord_id, dist_id, ware_id, cust_id, cur_date, 11,
ord_ol_cnt, ord_all_local);
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
WHEN not_serializable OR deadlock OR snapshot_too_old OR
integrity_viol
THEN
ROLLBACK;
retry := retry + 1;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
/

vSphere


CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_order_status_id (
ware_id
NUMBER,
dist_id
NUMBER,
cust_id
IN OUT
NUMBER,
bylastname
NUMBER,
cust_last
IN OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_first
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_middle
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_balance
OUT
NUMBER,
ord_id
IN OUT
NUMBER,
ord_entry_d
OUT
DATE,
ord_carrier_id
OUT
NUMBER,
ord_ol_cnt
OUT
NUMBER
)
IS
TYPE rowidarray IS TABLE OF ROWID
cust_rowid
ROWID;
ol
BINARY_INTEGER;
c_num
BINARY_INTEGER;
row_id
rowidarray;
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
deadlock
EXCEPTION;
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
CURSOR mo_cur
IS
SELECT
o_id, o_entry_d, o_carrier_id, o_ol_cnt
FROM c_order
WHERE o_d_id = dist_id AND o_w_id = ware_id AND o_c_id = cust_id
ORDER BY o_w_id, o_d_id, o_c_id, o_id DESC;
BEGIN
LOOP
BEGIN
SELECT c_balance, c_first, c_middle, c_last
INTO cust_balance, cust_first, cust_middle, cust_last
FROM c_customer
WHERE c_id = cust_id AND c_d_id = dist_id AND c_w_id = ware_id;
OPEN mo_cur;
FETCH mo_cur
INTO ord_id, ord_entry_d, ord_carrier_id, ord_ol_cnt;
CLOSE mo_cur;
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
vSphere


THEN
ROLLBACK;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_order_status_name (
ware_id
NUMBER,
dist_id
NUMBER,
cust_id
IN OUT
NUMBER,
bylastname
NUMBER,
cust_last
IN OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_first
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_middle
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_balance
OUT
NUMBER,
ord_id
IN OUT
NUMBER,
ord_entry_d
OUT
DATE,
ord_carrier_id
OUT
NUMBER,
ord_ol_cnt
OUT
NUMBER
)
IS
cust_rowid
ROWID;
ol
BINARY_INTEGER;
c_num
BINARY_INTEGER;
row_id
rowidarray;
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
deadlock
EXCEPTION;
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
CURSOR c_cur
IS
SELECT
ROWID
FROM c_customer
WHERE c_d_id = dist_id AND c_w_id = ware_id AND c_last = cust_last
ORDER BY c_w_id, c_d_id, c_last, c_first;
CURSOR mo_cur
IS
SELECT
o_id, o_entry_d, o_carrier_id, o_ol_cnt
FROM c_order
WHERE o_d_id = dist_id AND o_w_id = ware_id AND o_c_id = cust_id
ORDER BY o_w_id, o_d_id, o_c_id, o_id DESC;
BEGIN
LOOP
vSphere


BEGIN
c_num := 0;
FOR c_id_rec IN c_cur
LOOP
c_num := c_num + 1;
row_id (c_num) := c_id_rec.ROWID;
END LOOP;
cust_rowid := row_id ((c_num + 1) / 2);
SELECT
INTO
FROM
WHERE

c_id, c_balance, c_first, c_middle, c_last
cust_id, cust_balance, cust_first, cust_middle, cust_last
c_customer
ROWID = cust_rowid;

OPEN mo_cur;
FETCH mo_cur
INTO ord_id, ord_entry_d, ord_carrier_id, ord_ol_cnt;
CLOSE mo_cur;
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
THEN
ROLLBACK;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_payment_id (
ware_id
NUMBER,
dist_id
NUMBER,
cust_w_id
NUMBER,
cust_d_id
NUMBER,
cust_id
IN OUT
NUMBER,
bylastname
NUMBER,
hist_amount
NUMBER,
cust_last
IN OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_street_1
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_street_2
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_city
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_state
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_zip
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_street_1
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_street_2
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_city
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_state
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_zip
OUT
VARCHAR2,
vSphere


cust_first
cust_middle
cust_street_1
cust_street_2
cust_city
cust_state
cust_zip
cust_phone
cust_since
cust_credit
cust_credit_lim
cust_discount
cust_balance
cust_data
retry
cur_date

OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
IN OUT
OUT
OUT
IN OUT
OUT
IN OUT
IN

VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
DATE,
VARCHAR2,
NUMBER,
NUMBER,
NUMBER,
VARCHAR2,
NUMBER,
DATE

)
AS
cust_rowid
ROWID;
ware_rowid
ROWID;
dist_ytd
NUMBER;
dist_name
VARCHAR2 (11);
ware_ytd
NUMBER;
ware_name
VARCHAR2 (11);
c_num
BINARY_INTEGER;
row_id
rowidarray;
cust_payments
PLS_INTEGER;
cust_ytd
NUMBER;
cust_data_temp
VARCHAR2 (500);
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
deadlock
EXCEPTION;
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
BEGIN
LOOP
BEGIN
SELECT ROWID, c_first, c_middle, c_last,
c_street_1, c_street_2, c_city, c_state,
c_zip, c_phone, c_since, c_credit,
c_credit_lim, c_discount, c_balance - hist_amount,
c_payment_cnt, c_ytd_payment + hist_amount,
DECODE (c_credit, 'BC', c_data, ' ')
INTO cust_rowid, cust_first, cust_middle, cust_last,
cust_street_1, cust_street_2, cust_city, cust_state,
cust_zip, cust_phone, cust_since, cust_credit,
cust_credit_lim, cust_discount, cust_balance,
cust_payments, cust_ytd,
vSphere


cust_data_temp
FROM c_customer
WHERE c_id = cust_id AND c_d_id = cust_d_id AND c_w_id =
cust_w_id;
cust_payments := cust_payments + 1;
IF cust_credit = 'BC'
THEN
cust_data_temp :=
SUBSTR (
(
TO_CHAR (cust_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (cust_d_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (cust_w_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (dist_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (ware_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (hist_amount, '9999.99')
|| '|'
)
|| cust_data_temp,
1,
500
);
UPDATE c_customer
SET c_balance = cust_balance,
c_ytd_payment = cust_ytd,
c_payment_cnt = cust_payments,
c_data = cust_data_temp
WHERE ROWID = cust_rowid;
cust_data := SUBSTR (cust_data_temp, 1, 200);
ELSE
UPDATE c_customer
c_payment_cnt = cust_payments
cust_data := cust_data_temp;
END IF;
SELECT c_district.ROWID, d_name, d_street_1, d_street_2,
d_city, d_state, d_zip, d_ytd + hist_amount,
c_warehouse.ROWID, w_name, w_street_1, w_street_2,
w_city, w_state, w_zip, w_ytd + hist_amount
INTO cust_rowid, dist_name, dist_street_1, dist_street_2,
dist_city, dist_state, dist_zip, dist_ytd,
vSphere


ware_rowid, ware_name, ware_street_1, ware_street_2,
ware_city, ware_state, ware_zip, ware_ytd
UPDATE c_district
SET d_ytd = dist_ytd
UPDATE c_warehouse
SET w_ytd = ware_ytd
WHERE ROWID = ware_rowid;
INSERT INTO c_history
VALUES (cust_id, cust_d_id, cust_w_id, dist_id, ware_id,
cur_date, hist_amount, ware_name || '
' ||
dist_name);
COMMIT;
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
THEN
ROLLBACK;
retry := retry + 1;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_payment_name (
ware_id
NUMBER,
dist_id
NUMBER,
cust_w_id
NUMBER,
cust_d_id
NUMBER,
cust_id
IN OUT
NUMBER,
bylastname
NUMBER,
hist_amount
NUMBER,
cust_last
IN OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_street_1
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_street_2
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_city
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_state
OUT
VARCHAR2,
ware_zip
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_street_1
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_street_2
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_city
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_state
OUT
VARCHAR2,
dist_zip
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_first
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_middle
OUT
VARCHAR2,
cust_street_1
OUT
VARCHAR2,
vSphere


cust_street_2
cust_city
cust_state
cust_zip
cust_phone
cust_since
cust_credit
cust_credit_lim
cust_discount
cust_balance
cust_data
retry
cur_date

OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
OUT
IN OUT
OUT
OUT
IN OUT
OUT
IN OUT
IN

VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
VARCHAR2,
DATE,
VARCHAR2,
NUMBER,
NUMBER,
NUMBER,
VARCHAR2,
NUMBER,
DATE

)
AS
cust_rowid
ROWID;
ware_rowid
ROWID;
dist_ytd
NUMBER;
dist_name
VARCHAR2 (11);
ware_ytd
NUMBER;
ware_name
VARCHAR2 (11);
c_num
BINARY_INTEGER;
row_id
rowidarray;
cust_payments
PLS_INTEGER;
cust_ytd
NUMBER;
cust_data_temp
VARCHAR2 (500);
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
deadlock
EXCEPTION;
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
CURSOR c_cur
IS
SELECT
ROWID
FROM c_customer
WHERE c_d_id = cust_d_id AND c_w_id = cust_w_id
AND c_last = cust_last
ORDER BY c_w_id, c_d_id, c_last, c_first;
BEGIN
LOOP
BEGIN
c_num := 0;
FOR c_id_rec IN c_cur
LOOP
c_num := c_num + 1;
row_id (c_num) := c_id_rec.ROWID;
vSphere


END LOOP;
cust_rowid := row_id ((c_num + 1) / 2);
SELECT c_id, c_first, c_middle, c_last, c_street_1,
c_street_2, c_city, c_state, c_zip, c_phone,
c_since, c_credit, c_credit_lim, c_discount,
c_balance - hist_amount, c_payment_cnt,
c_ytd_payment + hist_amount,
DECODE (c_credit, 'BC', c_data, ' ')
INTO cust_id, cust_first, cust_middle, cust_last, cust_street_1,
cust_street_2, cust_city, cust_state, cust_zip, cust_phone,
cust_since, cust_credit, cust_credit_lim, cust_discount,
cust_balance, cust_payments,
cust_ytd,
cust_data_temp
FROM c_customer
cust_payments := cust_payments + 1;
IF cust_credit = 'BC'
THEN
cust_data_temp :=
SUBSTR (
(
TO_CHAR (cust_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (cust_d_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (cust_w_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (dist_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (ware_id)
|| ' '
|| TO_CHAR (hist_amount, '9999.99')
|| '|'
)
|| cust_data_temp,
1,
500
);
UPDATE c_customer
c_payment_cnt = cust_payments,
c_data = cust_data_temp
cust_data := SUBSTR (cust_data_temp, 1, 200);
ELSE
UPDATE c_customer
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c_payment_cnt = cust_payments
cust_data := cust_data_temp;
END IF;
SELECT c_district.ROWID, d_name, d_street_1, d_street_2,
d_city, d_state, d_zip, d_ytd + hist_amount,
c_warehouse.ROWID, w_name, w_street_1, w_street_2,
w_city, w_state, w_zip, w_ytd + hist_amount
INTO cust_rowid, dist_name, dist_street_1, dist_street_2,
dist_city, dist_state, dist_zip, dist_ytd,
ware_rowid, ware_name, ware_street_1, ware_street_2,
ware_city, ware_state, ware_zip, ware_ytd
UPDATE c_district
SET d_ytd = dist_ytd
UPDATE c_warehouse
SET w_ytd = ware_ytd
WHERE ROWID = ware_rowid;
INSERT INTO c_history
VALUES (cust_id, cust_d_id, cust_w_id, dist_id, ware_id,
cur_date, hist_amount, ware_name || '
' ||
dist_name);
COMMIT;
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
THEN
ROLLBACK;
retry := retry + 1;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE c_sp_stock_level (
ware_id
NUMBER,
dist_id
NUMBER,
threshold
NUMBER,
low_stock
OUT
NUMBER
)
IS
not_serializable
EXCEPTION;
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deadlock
EXCEPTION;
snapshot_too_old
EXCEPTION;
BEGIN
LOOP
BEGIN
SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT s_i_id)
INTO low_stock
FROM c_order_line, c_stock, c_district
WHERE d_id = dist_id
AND d_w_id = ware_id
AND d_id = ol_d_id
AND d_w_id = ol_w_id
AND ol_i_id = s_i_id
AND ol_w_id = s_w_id
AND s_quantity
AND ol_o_id BETWEEN (d_next_o_id - 20) AND (d_next_o_id - 1);
COMMIT;
EXIT;
EXCEPTION
THEN
ROLLBACK;
END;
END LOOP;
END;
/
begin
DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS
(
OwnName
=> 'OLTP'
,Estimate_Percent => SYS.DBMS_STATS.AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE
,Block_sample
=> TRUE
,Method_Opt
=> 'FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS SIZE AUTO '
,Degree
=> 9
,Cascade
=> TRUE
,No_Invalidate
=> TRUE
);
end;
/
exit

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ABOUT PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES

Principled Technologies, Inc.
1007 Slater Road, Suite 300
Durham, NC, 27703
www.principledtechnologies.com

We provide industry-leading technology assessment and fact-based
marketing services. We bring to every assignment extensive experience
with and expertise in all aspects of technology testing and analysis, from
researching new technologies, to developing new methodologies, to
testing with existing and new tools.
When the assessment is complete, we know how to present the results to
a broad range of target audiences. We provide our clients with the
materials they need, from market-focused data to use in their own
collateral to custom sales aids, such as test reports, performance
assessments, and white papers. Every document reflects the results of
our trusted independent analysis.
We provide customized services that focus on our clients’ individual
requirements. Whether the technology involves hardware, software, Web
sites, or services, we offer the experience, expertise, and tools to help our
clients assess how it will fare against its competition, its performance, its
market readiness, and its quality and reliability.
Our founders, Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings, have worked
together in technology assessment for over 20 years. As journalists, they
published over a thousand articles on a wide array of technology subjects.
They created and led the Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation, which
developed such industry-standard benchmarks as Ziff Davis Media’s
Winstone and WebBench. They founded and led eTesting Labs, and after
the acquisition of that company by Lionbridge Technologies were the
head and CTO of VeriTest.

Principled Technologies is a registered trademark of Principled Technologies, Inc.
All other product names are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitation of Liability:
PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. HAS MADE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY AND VALIDITY OF ITS TESTING, HOWEVER,
PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO THE TEST RESULTS AND
ANALYSIS, THEIR ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS OR QUALITY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES RELYING ON THE RESULTS OF ANY TESTING DO SO AT THEIR OWN RISK, AND AGREE THAT PRINCIPLED
TECHNOLOGIES, INC., ITS EMPLOYEES AND ITS SUBCONTRACTORS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FROM ANY CLAIM OF LOSS OR
DAMAGE ON ACCOUNT OF ANY ALLEGED ERROR OR DEFECT IN ANY TESTING PROCEDURE OR RESULT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN
CONNECTION WITH ITS TESTING, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES,
INC.’S LIABILITY, INCLUDING FOR DIRECT DAMAGES, EXCEED THE AMOUNTS PAID IN CONNECTION WITH PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.’S
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