Oracle Database Workloads On OpenShift Virtualization Reference Architecture

Oracle Database Workloads On OpenShift Virtualization Reference Architecture Background OpenShift Virtualization architecture overview Oracle Database design principles Reference architecture Compute Network Storage Hardware configuration OpenShift Virtualization configuration Oracle Database configuration Oracle Database Single Instance Oracle RAC database Observability and monitoring System performance evaluation Test coverage summary Evaluation of impact of VM Live Migration Final thoughts Red Hat Learning Subscription | Product Trial About the authors Mikhail Mikhailitchenko Lokesh Rangineni Abdul Hameed Kamlesh Panchal More like this Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: The strategic platform for virtualization customers Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.20: Hybrid cloud-flexibility and enhanced VM management Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share This article details Red Hat's engineering efforts to support running a Oracle Database 19c on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. It provides a comprehensive reference architecture, validation results covering functionality, performance, scalability, and live migration, along with links to testing artifacts hosted on GitHub. OpenShift Virtualization offers robust performance for demanding production workloads, such as Oracle databases, providing a viable virtualization alternative without sacrificing performance. This is especially for technology leaders, architects, engineering teams, and project managers involved in evaluating and adopting single-instance Oracle Database or Oracle RAC Database on OpenShift Virtualization. The architecture design principles focus on resource allocation, partitioning, and abstraction layer optimization for compute, network, and storage. Performance tests using HammerDB with the TPC-C benchmark prove that Oracle Database can successfully run on OpenShift Virtualization with different storage solutions including software defined Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation or traditional SAN storage dynamically provisioned via Pure/Portworx CSI driver. This article will also highlight observability and monitoring, using Prometheus and Grafana for infrastructure and Oracle-specific insights. Many customers are seeking virtualization alternatives without sacrificing performance. OpenShift Virtualization provides robust performance for demanding production workloads, including enterprise databases. One of the most common components in traditional software architecture is the Oracle Database. To support customers interested in evaluating and adopting Oracle Database on OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat has dedicated engineering resources to provide an optimized experience operating Oracle Database on OpenShift Virtualization. This article assumes readers have an understanding of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.