Hardware environmentEdit online For the Oracle RAC study, IBM® System z® hardware and various software that runs on Linux™ were employed. IBM System z hardware used in the Oracle RAC studyThis section lists the hardware used in the Oracle RAC study.Client hardwareThe 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.Network setupThis section lists the network setup of the Oracle RAC study.Parent topic: Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux on IBM System z: Set up and network performance tuning