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© 2009 Oracle Corporation CliffsNotes Why the “high-cost” of storage ASM 101 How ASM cuts storage cost – ASM consolidation Eliminates islands of spare capacity Reduces storage management complexity Reduces storage management layers – ASM features that reduce cost Intelligent data placement Eliminates the need for continuous tuning Supports storage tiering

Data Growth Continues Unabated © 2009 Oracle Corporation Actual Projected Terabytes of Data Rate of Database Growth Source: Winter TopTen Survey, Winter Corporation, Waltham MA, 2008.

Unstructured Data Regulatory Compliance Mergers Acquisitions Structured Data Burgeoning Applications Data Replication Why the High-Data Volume Growth © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Reasons for the “High Cost” of Storage Storage hardware and software cost Arrays SAN fabric Management software Administration cost Administrating storage, SAN and OS Provisioning Troubleshooting and tuning Cost of downtime – Availability and change

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) 101 © 2009 Oracle Corporation A storage manager designed to manage Oracle database files – offered at no additional cost Volume Manager File System Clustering capabilities General purpose cluster file system Predictably Delivers on Performance & Availability SLA ’ s Increases Storage Utilization and Agility Simplifies and Automates Storage Management Reduce Cost and Complexity Without Compromising Performance or Availability ALL

Automatic I/O load balancing Stripes data across disks to balance load Optimizes I/O throughput Automatic mirroring Efficient, online add/remove of disks Consolidate data into a common shared storage environment Automatic Storage Management DB-ADB-B DB-C Automatic Storage Management (ASM) 101 © 2009 Oracle Corporation Disk Group

How ‘ASM Consolidation’ Cuts Storage Costs

ASM Consolidates Storage and Management © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing © 2009 Oracle Corporation Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Disk Group

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing © 2009 Oracle Corporation Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Only move data proportional to storage added Disk Group

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Only move data proportional to storage added No need for manual I/O tuning Disk Group © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Online migration to new storage Disk Group © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Online migration to new storage Disk Group © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Online migration to new storage Disk Group © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Consolidation Requires “Always Online” ASM– Re-Balancing Automatic online rebalance whenever storage configuration changes Online migration to new storage Disk Group © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Consolidated ASM Storage Infrastructure © 2009 Oracle Corporation Automatic Storage Management Disks LVM File Systems Files Tablespace Tables Tablespace Tables Before ASM ASM Networked Storage (SAN, NAS, DAS) Files Disk Group Disks

Consolidated ASM Storage Infrastructure Reduces Storage Management Complexity © 2009 Oracle Corporation LVM/FS 1.Add Disk to OS 2.Create volume(s) with Volume Manager 3.Create File System over volume 4.Add files to tablespace 5.Move data to new files 6.Re-tune I/O ASM 1.Add Disk to OS 2.Add disk to an existing disk group Provisioning additional storage to a database ASM takes care of the rest

3 rd Party FSApplication Automatic Storage Management (ASM) ASM Cluster & Single Node File System (ACFS) Database ACFS Snapshot ASM Disk Group DB Datafiles, OCR and Voting Files ACFS FSs 3 rd Party File Systems Dynamic Volume Manager ASM supports ALL data - database files, file systems, Clusterware files (OCR, Voting Disk) Built-in mirroring protects from disk failures Enables auto-repair from corrupt blocks using a valid mirror copy Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Stores & Manages All Data ASM Instance Managing Oracle DB Files

How ASM Features Cut Storage Costs

Intelligent Data Placement Policy-based file placement for hot files on high performance regions of disk Classify files as hot or cold for placement Supports Oracle Exadata Storage Server Save up to 35% on storage Use Case: Place file system data on cold file region New in 11.2 Infrequently Accessed Data Frequently Accessed Data © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Manual Storage Tuning vs Automatic Storage Tuning © 2009 Oracle Corporation Time Non-ASM ASM

ASM Eliminates Manual Storage Tuning Percent Baseline (TPS) Non-ASM (Gets out of tune in time) ASM TIME Graphical representation only (not a benchmark) © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Storage Pricing Circa 2008 Storage Tier Vendor Min $/GB (1/2008) Max $/GB (1/2008) AVG High EndVendor GB, <10TB$11.10$14.70 $13.80 Vendor GB, < 10TB$12.00$16.10 Vendor GB, <10TB$12.20$16.90 Low EndVendor GB, <6TB$4.40$6.00 $5.20 Vendor GB, 6TB$4.90$6.50 Vendor GB, <6TB$4.10$5.50 Average Cost Factor Between High End and Low End2.65 X Prices in high end range typically represent a system configured for performance Prices in the low end range typically represent a system configured for capacity With all loaded costs, can be between $5-14 GB © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Using the Right Storage for the Right Data © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Use ASM to Create Storage Tiers Database High End $2.5X Low End $X Online Archive $½ X Class Costs ASM Disk Groups Database 2 Database 3 © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Enterprise Strategy Group Survey © 2009 Oracle Corporation “Enterprise respondents’ stated top five storage priorities over the next 24 months—data reduction, storage virtualization, power-efficient hardware, tiered storage, and remote backup for branch offices”

ASM Cost Cutting Advantages ASM reduces operational costs – Simplifies storage management – Fewer things to manage – Storage Grid – Common management interface across platforms ASM reduces capital costs – Eliminates the need for 3 rd party LVM/file system – ASM supports the use of lower cost storage – ASM supports storage tiers © 2009 Oracle Corporation

ASM Adoption De-facto standard for RAC and grid deployments, >65% De-facto standard for VLDB deployments Large and growing adoption for single instance deployments, >20% Thousands of customers using ASM One of the most popular features in the database © 2009 Oracle Corporation

Some ASM Reference Customers In Production © 2009 Oracle Corporation

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