Power is/ built for Oracle workloads

Bringing Automation, Resiliency, and Hybrid Flexibility to Your Workloads

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Secure, Scalable AI Infrastructure with Zero Downtime

Organizations running Oracle® workloads face challenges with throughput, downtime, complex licensing, and limited flexibility. IBM® Power®, an AI-ready platform, is designed to address these challenges through consolidation, resiliency, and scalability. 

IBM Power11, like earlier generations, provides you with a choice of delivery models: on-prem, off-prem, or hybrid, and brings the added benefits of zero planned downtime for system maintenance1, improved performance, threat detection with IBM Power Cyber Vault, and quantum-safe security.
Optimized Oracle Licensing 

Maximize your Oracle investment with hard partitioning and capacity-based licensing, reducing costs compared to soft-partitioned VM-based models.
Hybrid deployment flexibility

Run mission-critical Oracle databases and applications off-premises with enterprise-grade performance, scalability, and security - without needing to re-platform.
Enterprise-Grade Security 

Protect your data with quantum-safe encryption, and protect against ransomware by creating prescriptive, immutable, air-gapped copies of with IBM Power Cyber Vault.
Zero Planned Downtime for system maintenance

Eliminate business disruption with automated patching and live kernel updates (LKU) that keep Oracle workloads running continuously. 1

Features

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Resource Groups for Performance Isolation  

Boost shared processor pools Oracle workload throughput with intelligent workload isolation and more efficient virtual processor dispatching. 
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Live Kernel Updates (LKU) 

Apply AIX® kernel patches while maintaining uptime and minimizing disruption to Oracle applications, without rebooting.
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PowerVS Integration  

Certified support for Oracle workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server with SAN storage, Power servers, PowerVM®, AIX®, and Real Application Clusters.
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Automates System Maintenance  

Update firmware, VIOS, and IO adapters in one flow with zero planned downtime, streamlining operations and ensuring business continuity.

Resources

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Redbook
See the latest features, technologies and changes in our comprehensive Redbook guide.
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Documentation
Oracle RAC implementation on IBM Power Virtual Server
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IBM Oracle Consulting Services
Navigate your cloud journeys and maximize business transformation in a complex hybrid cloud world.
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Oracle Disaster Recovery on IBM Power Virtual Server
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Oracle Technical Migration Procedure – Power to PowerVS
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Modernization guide
Explore a practical guide to modernizing Oracle Database environments moving from Power9 to Power11.
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Five reasons to run Oracle workloads on IBM Power and IBM AIX
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Resetting expectations with on-demand consumption IT
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Footnotes

1Zero planned downtime for system maintenance disclaimer: Based upon IBM internal testing of system upgrade scenarios; many (i.e. VIOS, hot plug adapters, I/O adapter FW, and concurrent system firmware updates) can be done in-place while some (i.e. non-concurrent system FW and HW maintenance) may require Live Partition Mobility (LPM) support.) ISV Licensing may be impacted by the use of LPM.