A customer wants the best performance for their Oracle DB solution. They are willing to configure their high-availability nodes so the load is less than 50% per node, to protect performance during…

Deduplication reduces capacity consumption by eliminating redundant data blocks, but it does not directly enhance read or write I/O performance and can add CPU overhead.

Thin provisioning allocates storage on demand to save space, but it is a capacity management feature that provides no read or write performance improvement.

Flash Pool uses SSDs as a cache tier within a hybrid aggregate alongside traditional HDDs, accelerating both read I/O (by serving frequently accessed data from SSD) and write I/O (by absorbing writes to the SSD tier before destaging to disk). This bidirectional performance benefit is critical for a write-intensive Oracle DB workload, and the technology operates at the aggregate level without requiring changes to the HA node pairing or failover configuration.

FlashCache (the PAM card) is a read-only cache module that accelerates read performance only; it does not cache writes, so it cannot satisfy the requirement to enhance both read and write performance.