Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) Virtualization White Paper

Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) Virtualization White Paper [ID 1313713.1]

		Modified 14-APR-2011 Type WHITE PAPER Status PUBLISHED

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Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) Virtualization White Paper

Applies to:

Hyperion Financial Management - Version: 11.1.1.0.00 to 11.1.2.1.000 - Release: 11.1 to 11.1
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to explain the usage and benefits of virtualization technologies on an Oracle® Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) deployment. This document is not intended to be a source of best practices nor a recommendation for application deployment. It is intended to provide a solid foundation of technical information regarding virtualization deployment solutions.

Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) Virtualization White Paper

Virtualization has become a key technology,enabling organizations to deploy their enterprise application more quickly and manage it more efficiently. With multiple virtual machines running on a single set of hardware, it supports scalable, highly efficient and lower-cost deployments.

Historically, and typically, virtualized environments were ideal for Development or Test environments. Simple reinstallation by re-deploying a formerly saved image or template after each test run is a key driver for these test environments. However, many Production environments are beginning to take advantage of virtualization.

When deciding on the environment configuration, many customers tend to separate the Production environment from the Test environment. In a typical Production environment configuration, dedicated clusters and servers are used to ensure that specified resources (CPU and RAM) are guaranteed at the individual server level. During peak loads, additional resources can be allocated and managed to ensure maximum performance and utilization.

In most cases, the Production environment would have active load balancing with 100% full server redundancy. In a typical Test environment, since high availability is seldom needed, a shared single physical server with no redundancy may be sufficient.

Various system virtual machine software solutions are available in the market now. Among them are Oracle VM, VMware, and Microsoft Virtual Server, all providing virtualization technology. Oracle VM is a leading server virtualization software supporting both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM is the only software based virtualization solution that is fully supported and certified for Oracle Real Application Clusters.