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Banner on Oracle Update: Engineered Systems and Security

Presented by: Gabriel Nguyen

Oracle Sr. Sales Consultant

http://www.ellucian.com/


Agenda

Oracle Engineered Systems Overview

Banner Customers on Engineered Systems

– Stephen F. Austin University

– East Carolina University

– University of Toledo

Ellucian Live Updates

– Banner Optimized on Oracle Exadata Database Machine

– Banner Data Defense combining Oracle Security Solutions

Q&A


What is Engineered Systems?

Optimized

Oracle Optimized Solutions/

Reference Configurations

Best of Breed Oracle Software

(Or ISV SW) plus Highly Available HW

Exadata Exalytics

Exalogic BIG Data Appliance

SPARC Super Database Appliance

Cluster


Engineered Systems I The Family


Why this matters?

Enterprise IT

Budget • 3-Tier Architecture

• Sizing & Deployment

• Installation & Configuration

• Patching &Maintenance

• Platform Administration


Pre-built and Optimized Out-of-the-Box

Pe

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Time

(Days) Time

(Months)

100%

Measure, diagnose, tune and

reconfigure

Test & debug failure modes

Assemble dozens of

components

Multi-vendor finger

pointing

Custom Configuration


Bringing LOB and IT Together


What Exactly Is Exadata?



Exadata Architecture Complete Database platform using standard servers for Compute and Storage

Scale-Out Database Servers

• 8x 2-socket, or 2x 8-socket Xeon database servers

• Oracle Database, ASM, RAC; Linux or Solaris

• Standard Ethernet to data center

Scale-Out Intelligent Storage Servers

• 2-socket storage servers, Exadata Storage Software

• Up to 500 terabytes disk per rack

• 56 PCI Flash memory cards per rack

InfiniBand Network

• Unified internal connectivity ( 40 Gb/sec )


X3-8 Full X3-2 Full X3-2 Half X3-2 Quarter X3-2 Eighth

Database Servers 2 8 4 2 2

Database Grid Cores 160 128 64 32 16

Database Grid Memory (GB) 4096 2048 1024 512 512)

InfiniBand switches 3 3 3 2 2

Ethernet switch 1 1 1 1 1

Exadata Storage Servers 14 14 7 3 3

Storage Grid CPU Cores 168 168 84 36 18

Raw Flash Capacity 22.4 TB 22.4 TB 11.2 TB 4.8 TB 2.4 TB

Raw Storage Capacity High Perf 100 TB 100 TB 50 TB 21.6 TB 10.8 TB

High Cap 504 TB 504 TB 252 TB 108 TB 54 TB

Usable mirrored capacity High Perf 45 TB 45 TB 22.5 TB 9.5 TB 4.5 TB


Usable Triple mirrored

capacity

High Perf 30 TB 30 TB 15 TB 6.5 TB 3.25 TB


Exadata Database Machine Hardware Summary


Exadata Innovations

• Intelligent storage

– Scale-out InfiniBand storage

– Smart Scan query offload

+ + +

• Hybrid Columnar Compression – 10x compression for warehouses

– 15x compression for archives

• Smart PCI Flash Cache – Accelerates random I/O up to 30x

– Triples data scan rate

Data remains

compressed

for scans

and in Flash

Benefits Cascade

to Copies

compress

primary DB

standby test

dev backup

uncompressed


Deployments at Other Institutions



Customer Highlight


Customer Highlight Exadata

Resolved Banner ERP student registration problems

Scalable solution for consolidating Banner OLTP databases, thus

reducing SFA’s costs

Faster access-to and processing-of SFA’s data, leading to

reduced DB response times



Web transaction performance

increase of 400%.

OLTP performance increase

anywhere from 1000% to

3500%. 10X to 35X.

Reload from production to

ODS 10X as fast

ODS queries as much as 60X.

What used to take hours now

takes minutes. What took

minutes now takes seconds.



ODA uses dedicated SSD for REDO boosting performance

No more Banner database contention with oversubscribed SAN

I/O performance improvement with ASM providing dynamic

rebalancing across all the disks in a disk group

Large performance issues caused by dynamic SQL in batch

processes, like TRGAPPL and TRGUNAP no longer existed

More stable and easy to support

- Decreased amount of labor cost and in staff time spent tuning and diagnosing

problems


Ellucian Live Announcements



Oracle Engineered Systems Platform for Banner – OLTP or Data Warehouse Mixed Workloads


Ellucian achieves Oracle Exadata Optimized status

Business Objectives

• Lower cost and complexity

• Meet registration SLAs

• Extreme performance &

scalability

• Reliability to customers

Solution

• 2013: Exadata X3-2 1/4 Rack

Benefits

“Banner by Ellucian running on the Oracle Exadata

Database Machine performed exceptionally well in

recent tests, enabling us to reach up to 19 times more

registrations per hour and 5 times faster processing of

higher education’s toughest load: peak concurrent

student registration”

- Brian Knotts, senior vice president, chief architect, Ellucian

Exadata X3-2

¼ Rack

2013

Processing

Speed

Savings 5X Faster

Peak workloads

Faster

Application

19X More

Registration per hour

Resource

Savings

Significant

Reduction

Maximum

Availability

99.95%

Banner Optimized for Exadata Database Machine

• Banner ERP


Banner Data Defense Oracle’s Defense-in-Depth solution


Oracle Exadata at Ellucian Live



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