1EMC CONFIDENTIAL—INTERNAL USE ONLY. Best Practices for Virtualizing Oracle with EMC and VMware.

1EMC CONFIDENTIAL—INTERNAL USE ONLY.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Oracle with EMC and VMware

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Today’s Choices in Cloud Computing

Über-cloud

CPUPool

StoragePool

Virtual Infrastructure

Network

Verticalization Virtualization


IT ProductionIT Production Business ProductionBusiness Production IT-As-A-ServiceIT-As-A-ServiceLower Costs Improve Quality Of Service Improve Agility

% Virtualized

The Journey to The Cloud

15%

30%

50%

85% 95%

Consolidate x86 ServersIncrease Utilization

Consolidate x86 ServersIncrease Utilization

Enhance Data Mobility And High Availability

Enhance Data Mobility And High Availability

Cross-ApplicationActive-Active use of

Infrastructure

Cross-ApplicationActive-Active use of

Infrastructure

Reasons Oracle Customers Virtualize


Increase Oracle performance up to 44% with lower TCO95%+ Oracle instances match native performance on VMwareIncrease server and storage utilization up to 80%Consolidate servers by 4x – 20x

Improved backups / Application-aware disaster recoveryBackup with less downtime, less storage and faster recoveryRecover to application-consistent point in time

Deploy and manage more instances with less effort50-70% faster deployment with 90% less App downtimeImprove dev/test/QA; new application deployments/migrations

More Performance and Utilization

Enhanced HighAvailability

Solutions Tailored to Your Business

Faster Provisioning

Top Oracle Customer Challenges

Virtual Infrastructure vs. Vertical AppliancesEMC Virtualization Assessment for OracleEMC, Oracle Technology Centers and EMC Global IT experts(House of Brick Consulting??)


More Performance and Utilization


Oracle Performance and Utilization Challenges

Targeting the performance you really need vs. “extreme

performance” to avoid excessive cost

Oracle workloads will change over time requiringadjustment and tuning

Traditional “one workload, one box” approachleads to over-provisioning of servers

Physical storage provisioning creates underutilization of

capacity and impedes database performance


Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) VP

Flash–10%

Fibre Channel–40%

SATA–50%

Flash–10%

SATA–90%

Traditional FAST(Volume/LUN

level)

FAST VP(Sub-LUN)

NEWQ4 ’10

Configure storage 80% faster without downtime

Scale Oracle performance while increasing utilization

Reclaim 50% un-used capacity with ASM Storage Reclaim Utility

Configure storage 80% faster without downtime

Scale Oracle performance while increasing utilization

Reclaim 50% un-used capacity with ASM Storage Reclaim Utility

THIN PROVISIONINGTHIN PROVISIONING


VMware vSphere and ESX Server

• Increase Oracle x86 server utilization from 10-15% up to 80% with vSphere

– Run multiple Oracle workloads on same hardware

– Convert physical machines to virtual machines without downtime

• Reduce hardware requirements by up to 90% with VMware ESX

– Each instance of VMware ESX can support more than 100 VMs


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Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series based 8-pCPU server

RHEL 5.1

Oracle 11gR1

In-house ESX Server< 15% overhead for 8 vCPU VM

8,900 total DB transactions per second

Near-linear scalability from 1 to 8 vCPUs

60,000 I/O operations/second

† A fair-use implementation of the TPC-C workload; results are not

TPC-C compliant

Single VM Performance: Oracle Database OLTP Workload †


Oracle Support for VMware•Oracle MyOracleSupport (Metalink) 249212.1 defines Oracle’s VMware support policy most broadly

•Support facts:

– Oracle RAC included for 11.2.0.2 and above (Updated Nov 8,2010)

– Oracle will accept SRs on VMware for bugs already known to Oracle

– Oracle may accept SRs on VMware for bugs that are not seen by Oracle as being caused by virtualization

– Oracle maintains (as do most ISVs) the right to require physical reproduction if they suspect VMware is “at fault”

•VMware's technology partner EMC and system integrator House of Brick have support statements for Oracle on VMware:

– http://www.emc.com/solutions/application-environment/oracle/oracle-virtualization-vmware.htm

– www.houseofbrick.com/oracle-on-vmware


Aligning DBAs and Infrastructure Management

Virtual Infrastructure Layer

EMC <-> VMware Plug-ins

Virtual Servers

Thin Devices

Thin Pool

Oracle Software LayerOracle AWR Reports

End-to-end visibility and control of virtual infrastructure

Simplify monitoring, tuning and reporting

Oracle AWR reports provide before-and-after performance analysis

End-to-end visibility and control of virtual infrastructure

Simplify monitoring, tuning and reporting

Oracle AWR reports provide before-and-after performance analysis

EMC, VMware simplifymanagement for Oracle


Oracle Use Case: EMC Symmetrix FAST VP with VMware

EMC Symmetrix VMAX

Virtualized Infrastructure• EMC Symmetrix VMAX• FAST VP for high performance at lowest cost• Oracle RAC and ASM over FCP• Tiered Storage: 128 x 200GB 15k FC Drives; 28

x 2 TB 7,200 rpm SATA; 8 x 200 GB EFD drives• EMC Control Center• VMware vSphere and vCenter

Oracle Software• Oracle E-Business Suite R12• Oracle Application Server 10.1• Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition• Real Application Clusters (RAC) and ASM• RHEL 5.1

NEWQ1 ’11


Documented Best Practices44% More Oracle TPM and 30% lower cost • Setup test of multiple 400 Oracle user sessions with OLTP test

suite• Deployed FAST VP and tested physical Oracle RAC

performance at scale• Performed non-disruptive physical-to-virtual migration of

Oracle RAC• Ran same tests on virtualized Oracle RAC scaling to 8 VMs• Response times within 10% of physical, with more

performance, less cost


Faster Provisioning


Oracle Provisioning Challenges

Time to provision new Oracle environments (Apps,Middleware, Database) and infrastructure

Minimizing Oracle production application downtime during dev/test/QA process

Time required in recreating copies in the event oftest failure

Managing this process at scale in large, multidatabase Oracle environments


EMC Replication ManagerReplicate with 90% Less Downtime Speed and Automation Replicate Oracle in minutes vs. hours / days

Auto-discovery of Oracle, replication technology, VMware datastores (VMFS [Virtual Machine File System]/NFS), virtual machines

OAUG “Innovator of Year Award” 2009

Application consistency Understands how to place applications into

proper state for application-consistent replicas

Oracle RMAN Hot backup for Oracle

VMware snapshots for VMFS and NFS datastores

Instant restore Application-consistent replicas of Oracle

running on VMware virtual machines VMFS or NFS datastores containing virtual machines

ORACLE-AWARE SNAPS / CLONES

Oracle dev/test

Oracle copy

Oracleproduction

Oracle copy

Oracle Backup

Oraclecopy

LOWEST

Replication Manager Administrator

Power Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Power User

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Deploying Virtual Machines with Templates

vSphere Client

Deploy Template wizard

• Centralized VM management across heterogeneous x86 operating environments

– Linux, Windows

• Accelerate provisioning time 50-70% with VM Templates

– Eliminate repetitive configuration and installation steps across Application, Middleware and Database tiers

– Combine with EMC replication to provision complete environment


Use Case: EMC Unified Storage with VMware

EMC VNXUnified Storage

Virtualized Infrastructure• Oracle RAC and ASM over FCP• Oracle App Server and Appl_TOP over NFS• 6GB 10k SAS Drives• VMware vSphere and vCenter• VM Templates on App Server and

Database Tiers• VMware vStorage APIs for Array

Integration

Oracle Software• Oracle E-Business Suite R12• Oracle Application Server 10.1• Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition• Real Application Clusters (RAC) and ASM• 200 GB Database• RHEL 5.1

NEWQ1 ’11

FC SANNAS


Use Case: Rapid Provisioning of Complete Environment

• All 10 virtual machines deployed in less than 10 minutes

vSphere Client

Deploy Template wizard• Virtual machine name• Virtual machine location• Pre-created Custom Specification

(defines network configuration for machine)

EMC Replication ManagerOracle EBS Copies

Production Oracle Snapshot

Oracle Snapshot

OracleSnapshot

Clone


Documented Best PracticesDeploy up to 10 Oracle VMs in 10 Minutes

• Configured Oracle EBS Application shared file system and ASM

• Configured VMware vSphere and create virtual machines• Deploying templates across Oracle Application and Database

tier nodes • Deploy Oracle EBS across shared file system using RAC and

ASM• Perform functional test of application tier and add app server

nodes


Enhanced High Availability


Oracle High Availability Challenges

Backup, recovery can become time consuming

and costly as Oracle environments scale

Oracle software alone limited as completedisaster recovery solution for applications

Traditional physical disaster recoveryinfrastructure remains idle and limits

applicationmobility


Enhanced Oracle Backup and Recovery

CIFS, NFS, NDMP, OpenStorage

Ethernet

Virtual Tape

Library (VTL) over

Fibre ChannelDD880 appliance

Control Tier

Target TierBackup and Archive Applications

Retain longerStore weeks or months of full backups with 10-30x less disk Perform Oracle full backups to disk, reducing tape dependence

Replicate smarter Move only de-duplicated data over existing networks with up to 99% bandwidth efficiency for cost-effective disaster recovery

Recover reliablyRecover from full backups vs. incremental reducing complexityChecksum and re-checksum ensures data blocks readable and correct

Direct target for Oracle RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup as well as enterprise backup software

Ex: 84-92% Less Storage in 5 weeksEx: 84-92% Less Storage in 5 weeks


Complete Oracle Disaster Recovery

EMC RecoverPoint

RecoverPointAppliance

RemoteLocal

SAN

WAN

SANRecoverPoint

Appliance

RecoveryJournal

HistoryJournal

BenefitsTrack every Oracle write without application

performance impact

Remotely replicate with compression reduces bandwidth up to 90%

Multiple modes (hot/cold application consistent or crash consistent)

Integrates with Oracle Data Guard for complete protection

Oracle Applications

Oracle Middleware

Oracle Database


Integration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)Heterogeneous, network-based replication

• Uses RecoverPoint replica image to test disaster recovery failover

• Provides on-demand failover of a selected subset or all virtual machines

• Automates failback with vCenter Server plug-in for RecoverPoint

EMC RecoverPoint

Servers

Heterogeneous Storage

Production

VMware Infrastructure

Virtual Machines

Servers

Heterogeneous Storage

Disaster Recovery

VMware Infrastructure

Virtual Machines


Active-Active High Availability with VPLEX

EMC VPLEX Local

EMC VPLEX Metro

Seamless Oracle application mobility - Supports the movement of VMs up to 17x faster without downtime

Active-active data over distance - Increases utilization of passive DR assets up to 50%

Migrations and tech refresh - Removes any application downtime

Seamless Oracle application mobility - Supports the movement of VMs up to 17x faster without downtime

Active-active data over distance - Increases utilization of passive DR assets up to 50%

Migrations and tech refresh - Removes any application downtime

EMC VPLEX Value to Oracle Environments


Solutions Tailored to Your Business


Summary: Oracle on EMC, VMwareGain Everything, Sacrifice Nothing

• Optimized performance and utilization– 45% more TPM with reduce cost through FAST VP– Scale 50% more users using same physical capacity with FAST

VP– Up to 90% less hardware consumption through virtualization

• Up to 90% more efficiency for Oracle environments– 80% faster storage provisioning with FAST VP and VMware– 90% less downtime during replication (dev/test/backup/D/R)– 84%+ less storage for Oracle RMAN backups– 90% less bandwidth for remote-site application recovery– Active-active high availability increases use of D/R assets 50%

– Virtualize Oracle at best pace for your business– Extensively tested joint best practices and Solutions– Full support for Oracle production (including RAC)


Where is a good place to start? Virtualization Readiness Assessment for Oracle

Create the Optimal Virtualization Approach for Your Oracle Applications

Approach•Assess the business and service level requirements

•Identify Oracle application, server, and database dependencies

•Capture and review business transactions for CPU, memory, disk, and network during peak and non-peak loads

•Review Oracle disk group layout and recommended appropriate virtual environment

•Review HA requirements and recommend solutions

•Analyze physical performance and estimate virtual resources required

Results•Detailed assessment of your Oracle environment and its ability to meet readiness criteria

•Recommendations for virtualization of your environment


Resources • Documented reference architectures and

configuration guides

• Oracle Technology Centers (Atlanta, GA; Reston, VA)

• EMC Solution Centers (Hopkinton, MA; Santa Clara, CA; Cork, Ireland)

• EMC Global IT Experts available to talk to customers

www.emc.com/oraclesolutionswww.emc.com/virtualizingoracle

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