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Oracle Database Appliance

• Martin Guthrie

Agenda

• Today's Market and the risk of deploying a HA DB

Solution

• Oracle Database Appliance,

– The technical advantage

– The operational advantage

– Where it competes

– The commercial advantage

• Call to Action

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Challenges to deploy a

highly available database platform ?

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Growing Business Critical Services and Data High Availability solutions desirable, but not easily deployed

Specific Skills Required

High Risk of Failure

Complex and Costly

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This is how we procure systems today!

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.. and then put them together!

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... and then manage it all!

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Is this how we are going to build a HA database

solution successfully?

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D.I.WHY?

It’s all in the Software Architecture delivered as a Complete Engineered System

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Oracle Database Appliance Chassis

FRONT VIEW

REAR VIEW

4U Redundant Storage Server

2 System Controllers (SC)

2x Intel Xeon X5675 per SC (6 core, 3.06 GHz) “Pay As You Grow”

96 GB memory per SC

2x 500GB Boot Disks in back of server

USB flash port w/ factory image

Shared Disk

12 TB RAW, 4 TB Usable

24 x 3.5” dual-ported SAS/SATA/SSD disk slots

20x 600GB 15K RPM SAS

4x 73 GB SSD for redo logs

All disk triple mirrored

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Oracle Database Appliance Chassis

FRONT VIEW

REAR VIEW

Networking

4x 1GbE (external - public) per SC

2x 1GbE (external – public) per SC

2x 1GbE (internal - interconnect)

for SC-to-SC

2x 10GbE (external - public) per SC

All public ports bonded into dual pairs for

aggregated bandwidth and failover

Service Processor:

1x serial, 1x 1GbE, 1x VGA per SC

RAS Features

Triple Mirroring on disks

Redundant backplane power

Hot swap SN modules, fans, disks, power

supplies

All CRUs are front and rear accessible

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Oracle Database Appliance Chassis

FRONT VIEW

REAR VIEW

Physical

Weight: 160 lbs (72.6 kg)

Dims (HxWxL):

6.9”x19”x30.8”

175 mm x 483 mm x 782 mm

Rack

4-post rack mount kit included

Not compatible with 2-post rack

Power

Redundant – can run on 1 PS

2 x 200-240VAC/7A

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Easy to Install

• Plug in the power

• Plug in the network

• Wizard-driven install

• Rapidly Deploy a Database Cluster

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Low Entry Cost to High Availability

• 24 processor cores

• Manual configuration & installation

• Multiple-vendor patching & maint.

• Multiple-vendor support contracts

HP

Minimum 24 processor core licenses

Oracle Database Appliance

• 24 processor cores

• Press a button

• Press a button

• Single-vendor support contract

Minimum 2 processor core licenses

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Oracle Database Systems Family

Engineered for Simplicity

Engineered for Performance

Database Appliance

2 to 12 Cores (Single Instance)

4 to 24 Cores (Clustered)

Cores can be disabled

12 TB Storage

292 GB Flash for Redo Logs

One Click Deployment, Patching, and Support

Exadata Quarter Rack 24 Database Cores

3 Exadata Storage Servers

72 TB Storage

1.1 TB Smart Flash Cache

Smart Scan

Hybrid Columnar Compression

Fully Expandable

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CAPACITY HIGHER 4 cores

24 cores

Database Appliance

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Value Proposition Extreme Simplicity

• Easy to Implement – One box: server, storage, networking

– One button installation of software

• Easy to manage & maintain – One button patching

– Self-managing storage

– Auto-detects and auto-corrects

• Easy to diagnose and support – Automated Service Request filing (phone home)

– Relevant logs gathered and packaged for support

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Software Components: Full Oracle Stack

• Oracle Linux 5.5

• Choice of Oracle Database EE, RAC or RAC One Node

• Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g Release 2

– Oracle Clusterware

– Oracle Automatic Storage Manager

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control

• Oracle Automatic Service Requests (Phone home)

• Oracle Appliance Manager

– One Button Automation for Provisioning, Patching,

Diagnostics, and Storage Management

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Oracle Appliance Manager The Secret Sauce For Simplicity

• Provides One Button functionality to easily install, manage,

maintain & validate the system.

• Performs discovery of the storage subsystem.

• Monitors disks for hard & soft failures.

• Recovers ASM disk groups on shared disk failure.

• Automates procedures after remove/replace disks

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Installing RAC -

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Easy to Deploy, Manage, and Maintain Reduced Installation and Administration Effort

Oracle Database Appliance

Build Your Own

Tim

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Oracle Appliance Manager

Installation Expertise

Optimization Expertise

Network Administration

Storage Administration

System Administration

Database Administration

Savings

Co

st

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Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator

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Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator

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Deployment Scenarios

SN0 SN1

SN0 SN1

SN0 SN1

• Single Instance (Oracle Database Enterprise Edition)

• Runs on one node

• Automatic restart

• Single Instance (RAC One Node)

• Runs on one node

• Passive failover on failure

• Cluster database (RAC)

• Active failover on failure

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Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator System Info

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Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator Network Info

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Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator Database Sizing

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Oracle Appliance Manager Configurator Summary

One Button Install

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Simplicity Equals Savings

~ £43K OPEX savings per system

Dell/HP Build Your

Own Labor

Requirements

Database

Appliance

Labor Savings

(OPEX) Over 3

Years

Initial

Deployment

Sizing, ordering,

researching best

practices, assembling,

installing, patching,

configuring, testing

unique configuration,

resolving issues

Order Database

Appliance and

run one

command

£9,000

Maintenance Research patch

dependencies, locate

patches, test unique

configuration

Run one

Command

£26,000

Support Troubleshoot

configuration with

support, locate log files,

file SR

Run one

Command

£8,200

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Oracle Database Appliance Pay-As-You-Grow: CPU Cores on Demand

• An Oracle on Oracle Feature !!!

• CPU cores on demand allows users to enable only the cores they

need from as few as 4 cores to as many as all 24 cores (in

increments of 4)

• System ships with all 24 cores enabled – there is no need to do

anything if running at full capacity

• To configure for subcapacity

– Log onto MyOracleSupport

– Declare configuration for servers

– Download encrypted key to reconfigure servers

– Run CLI to reconfigure server in BIOS and system will reboot

• Once configured for sub-capacity, core count can only increase in

subsequent reconfigurations

Pay As You Grow Example –

Oracle RAC

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Oracle Database Appliance – 3D Demo

http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/producttours/3d/databaseappliance/

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Oracle Database Appliance Summary

• Simple, quick, complete, affordable, HA Cluster Database System in a single box

• Power of Oracle Engineered for Extreme Simplicity

• Extreme simplicity – one-button implementation & patching

• Pay-As-You-Grow licensing - most cost-effective entry point for Oracle

Database Enterprise Edition, aligns to budget cycles

• Complete and integrated system for Single Instance (Enterprise Edition), RAC

One Node, and RAC

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Proof of Value Excise Online or in the Lab

• Configuration

– Test Case 1 – Setup New Database Environment

– Test Case 2 – Connectivity to Database

– Test Case 3 – Connection failover and continued service availability

• Service Failure Handling

– Test Case 4 – Private network failure

– Test Case 5 – Simulate failures to Internal (OS) disks

– Test Case 6 – HDD (Hard Disk Drive) failure

– Test Case 7 – SDD (Solid State Disk) failure

– Test Case 8 – Database backup and recovery test

– Test Case 9 –Instance Caging Test

– Test Case 10- Public Network Failure

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If you have Oracle Software on

Non-Oracle Hardware,

You’re going in the wrong direction !

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