Protecting Oracle Databases with Zerto Virtual Replication

VERSION 2

November 2015

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1.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................ 4

1.2 Challenges of Protecting Oracle Databases ................................................................... 4

1.3 Benefits of Protecting Oracle Databases with Zerto ...................................................... 5

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2.1 Software Components ................................................................................................... 6

2.2 Virtual Protection Groups .............................................................................................. 7

2.3 Point in Time Recovery Journaling ................................................................................. 7

2.4 No-Impact DR Testing .................................................................................................... 7

2.5 Temporary Tablespace Optimization ............................................................................. 7

2.6 WAN Compression & Bandwidth Optimization ............................................................. 8

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3.1 Transactional Consistency ............................................................................................. 9

3.2 Multi-VM Application Consistency ................................................................................ 9

3.3 Replication Methods ...................................................................................................... 9

3.4 Initial Data Synchronization ........................................................................................... 9

3.5 Continuous Data Protection ........................................................................................ 10

3.6 Bitmap Sync Protection................................................................................................ 10

3.7 Delta Sync Protection................................................................................................... 10

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4.1 Application Consistency ............................................................................................... 12

4.2 Application Consistency in Windows ........................................................................... 12

4.3 Application Consistency in Linux .................................................................................. 13

4.4 Database Recovery Operations.................................................................................... 13

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5.1 Zerto Virtual Manager ................................................................................................. 14

5.2 Zerto Virtual Replication Appliances ............................................................................ 14

5.3 Configure Replication................................................................................................... 14

5.4 Execute DR Test ........................................................................................................... 15

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6.1 VMware Support .......................................................................................................... 15

6.2 Hyper-V Support .......................................................................................................... 15

6.3 AWS Support ................................................................................................................ 15

6.4 Zerto Support ............................................................................................................... 16

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7.1 Automatic Storage Management (ASM) ...................................................................... 17

7.2 Oracle Clustered File System (OCFS) ............................................................................ 17

7.3 Oracle Data Guard ....................................................................................................... 17

7.4 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) ........................................................................ 18

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8.1 Licensing Overview ...................................................................................................... 19

8.2 Production Site Licensing ............................................................................................. 19

8.3 Recovery Site Licensing ................................................................................................ 19

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9.1 Performance Impact of Replication ............................................................................. 21

9.2 Oracle Temporary Tablespace Optimization ............................................................... 21

9.3 WAN Sizing ................................................................................................................... 21

9.4 VRA Configuration........................................................................................................ 21

9.5 VPG Design ................................................................................................................... 22

9.6 VPG SLAs ...................................................................................................................... 22

9.7 Journaling ..................................................................................................................... 23

9.8 Datastore Configuration .............................................................................................. 23

9.9 Networking Configuration ........................................................................................... 23

9.10 Failover Testing ............................................................................................................ 24

9.11 Failover, Move & Failback ............................................................................................ 24

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10.1 VMware Recommendation Summary .......................................................................... 26

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