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1 1© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ORACLE 11g Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAX and VMware vSphere

2 2© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Proven Solutions Advanced Solutions Proven Solutions Product Combinations Product Build/Manage Services Consulting Services LEVEL OF CUSTOMIZATION DEGREE OF INTEGRATION

3 3© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Voice of the Customer Drives EMC Action Measure the voice of the customer and operational metrics Analyze for continuous improvements and best practices Improve by creating and driving action plans Control by monitoring and communicating results to field and customers

4 4© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Business Challenge Separate infrastructures lead to higher costs, lower ROI on assets, and increased environment complexity Lower server and storage utilization Difficulty meeting service levels – Maintaining and managing separate environments – Provisioning inefficiencies – Inconsistent data protection strategies Separate infrastructure Oracle9i Oracle10g Oracle11g

5 5© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Why Run Oracle Databases on Symmetrix VMAX with VMware vSphere? Match native performance even in consolidation scenarios  95%+ Oracle instances match native performance on VMware Performance Reduce hardware costs  Consolidate servers DB Consolidation Provision databases on demand  Minutes to provision DB On Demand Increase application quality of service  Scale dynamically  Built-in high availability and simple disaster recovery Quality of Service

6 6© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Oracle 11g

7 7© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Hardware and Software Components EMC Symmetrix VMAXBrocade 5100Dell PowerEdge R710 1 Storage, 300 GB 15K drives; 1 TB SATA drives; 64 GB mirrored cache 2 SAN switches. 4 Gb capable FC 2 2 x Xeon X5570 processor, 2.93 GHz, 8 MB 144 GB RAM with two 146 GB SAS internal drives SoftwareVersionComment Red Hat5.1 (64-bit)Operating system for database servers VMware vSphere4.0Suite of virtualization software VMware vCenter Converter4.0Plug-in for physical-to-virtual migration Oracle Database/Cluster/ASM11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0)Database/cluster software/volume management Swingbench2.3Load generator and benchmark tool Enginuity5874Symmetrix storage array OS EMC Storage Viewer2.0Discovery tool for vSphere EMC ControlCenter6.1 UB5Storage resource management software EMC PowerPath5.4Multi-pathing software Solutions Enabler7.0 Symmetrix Command Line Interface host-based utility EMC Symmetrix Management Console 7.0Configures and manages Symmetrix arrays

8 8© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Symmetrix—The World’s Most Trusted Storage Platform Tiered storage optimization – Fully automated storage tiering, mobility, and management capabilities Lowest total cost of ownership – Reduce costs and deliver higher service levels via scale-out and tiering Information availability – Most advanced and widely deployed business continuity platform Simplified management and operations – Simplified storage allocation, resource management, and tiering Application integration – Industry’s most comprehensive Proven Solutions #1 in high-end external RAID (IDC, March 2009*) * EMC analysis based on IDC product-line estimates

9 9© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Symmetrix Value with VMware  Consolidation for VMware-stored data with Symmetrix –Nondisruptive, transparent movement of data between tiers –Provides common management layer across all VMware resources –Single processes for each activity consistently applied across VMware stored data  Symmetrix business continuity and disaster restart –EMC TimeFinder local replication point-in-time operations –EMC SRDF remote replication of business- and mission-critical data –EMC Open Replicator for Symmetrix for data vaulting and/or data migration  EMC Storage Viewer Plug-in for VMware vCenter Server –Provides integrated view of storage in virtual environment –Storage array discovery from a VMware environment –Display path management information  E-Lab proven –Significant investment in ensuring Symmetrix interoperability with VMware ESX server and vSphere

10 10© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. PowerPath/VE for vSphere  Enhanced path management capabilities  Advanced multipathing  Dynamic load- balancing  Automatic failover PowerPath/VE PSA Plugin

11 11© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Storage Viewer for vSphere Client  EMC Storage tab  EMC storage-specific information  Datastores holding virtual disk  LUNs presented views  Storage mapping  SCSI targets  Type of storage  Array type

12 12© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Use Case Testing  VMware Converter P2V  VMware RDM vs. VMFS comparison  VMware VMotion  VMware High Availability (HA)  Symmetrix VMAX Virtual LUN

13 13© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VMware vCenter Converter  Physical-to-virtual migrations  Live migrations by using hot cloning  Offline migrations by using cold cloning

14 14© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Comparison between VMware RDM and VMFS for Oracle 11g Databases  Transactions per minute  ESX server CPU utilization  Database transactions response times LUN NumberSize (GB)Datafile Type 1 LUN 150Contains DATA device 1 2 LUN 250Contains DATA device 2 3 LUN 350Contains DATA device 3 4 LUN 450Contains DATA device 4 5 LUN550Contains DATA device 5 6 LUN650Contains DATA device 6 7 LUN750Contains DATA device 7 8 LUN850Contains DATA device 8 9 LUN950Contains DATA device 9 10 LUN1050Contains DATA device 10 11 LUN1150Contains DATA device 11 12 LUN1250Contains DATA device 12 13 LUN1350Contains FRA device 1 Datastore TypeSize (GB)Description 1 Data Datastore 588Contains all database DATA devices 2 FRA Datastore98Contains all database FRA devices 3 REDO Datastore 98 Contains all database REDO devices 4 TEMP Datastore 98 Contains all database EMP/UNDO devices Disk Performance VMFSRDM 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 KBps 510152025303540455055 Minutes

15 15© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VMotion Testing with Oracle 11g Database  Impact of VMotion migration on user transactions  ESX server CPU utilization  Documented migration steps  Under load, CPU usage increased on the primary ESX server during migration

16 16© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VMware HA Testing with Oracle 11g  Physical server failure— automatic failover  Automated Oracle database startup and availability  Documented recovery steps  Time from init 0 command to database startup—4 minutes 20 seconds  Time from ESX server shutdown to Oracle database startup—2 minutes

17 17© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Symmetrix VMAX Virtual LUN Technology  LUN migration wizard simplifies the setup for migrations –Allows users seamlessly migrate Oracle database data between LUNs within the array –Virtual LUN migrations take place within the storage array  Configuration –18 LUNs were allocated to the virtual machine –Nondisruptively moves storage from RAID 1 to RAID 6

18 18© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Conclusions  Reduction of cost—server consolidation –Multiple Oracle database environments consolidated into a two-node VMware cluster –Optimization of hardware means decreased hardware power, cooling, and licensing costs  Ease of application deployment –Quickly convert from physical to virtual infrastructure using: ▪VMware vCenter Converter ▪EMC SAN management tools –Decouple application/database from physical infrastructure What did the use case illustrate and how can it help you? Server Consolidation Application Deployment

19 19© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Conclusions  High availability—reducing data center downtime with VMware VMotion and VMware HA –VMotion: Planned downtime—eliminate or greatly reduce at lower cost –HA: Unplanned downtime—reduce by implementing HA across the virtualized cluster  Storage efficiencies—increased flexibility –Concise building block approach to storage design –Outlined: ▪Number of spindles ▪RAID types ▪Volume management options such as RDM and VMFS ▪How to implement RAID group layout and LUN sizes Continued High Availability Storage Efficiencies

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