Client hardware

The client system was an IBM® System x running Linux® with the Oracle client software. This client system was used as a workload generator for the OLTP workload.

Table 1 provides details about the client system.
Table 1. Client hardware used in the Oracle RAC study
System Operating System Number of CPUs Memory in GB Network Architecture
Workload generator Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3 Four 2 1 Gb OSA IBM System x