Case Study: SVHW achieves higher availability and lower Oracle database costs with SUSE

- Customer Case Study

SVHW, a government organization in the Netherlands, needed a more cost-effective way to run its growing Oracle database landscape while maintaining high performance, availability, and flexibility. Its existing Solaris and proprietary Oracle SPARC setup was becoming too expensive, and VMware was not a viable option because of Oracle licensing concerns. SVHW chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with KVM and HPE ProLiant servers to support its database and virtualized environment.

SUSE implemented SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching, SUSE Manager, and planned use of the High Availability Extension to modernize SVHW’s platform. The result was better performance and stability, with more than 40 virtual instances running on KVM, fewer reboots, and practically continuous uptime for the virtualization layer. SVHW also saved at least two man-days per month in patch management, reduced downtime, and lowered acquisition and operating costs through platform standardization.

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Hans Lenting

IT Architect