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BMCC – Oracle Exadata Technical Case Study An Oracle White Paper February 2013 Beijing Mobile Oracle Exadata Technical Case Study BMCC – Oracle Exadata Technical Case Study Overview BMCC (Beijing Mobile Communications Corporation, or Beijing Mobile) is one of 32 operating subsidiaries of China Mobile Limited. China Mobile provides mobile voice, data, IP telephone and multimedia services to more than 660,000,000 customers covering every province in China plus Hong Kong. As the leading mobile services provider in China, China Mobile boasts the worlds largest mobile network and the worlds largest mobile customer base. In 2010, the Company was once again selected as one of the FT Global 500 by Financial Times and one of The Worlds 2000 Biggest Public Companies by Forbes magazine. Beijing Mobile chose the Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Exadata) in 2011 as a consolidation destination for 18 separate database servers supporting the company’s Operational Support Systems (OSS). The project was designed to rationalize the mix of different hardware platforms, operating systems and databases, resulting in less administrative effort and better resource utilization. At the same time, the Exadata performance was expected to overcome previous I/O challenges. Finally, the use of Oracle Active Data Guard between Exadata Database Machines would ensure high availability of the database services, which hadn’t existed previously. 1 BMCC – Oracle Exadata Technical Case Study Intended Audience This paper reviews Beijing Mobile’s use of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and provides configuration details and benefits specific to the deploy