Building the Infrastructure Grid: Architecture, Design & Deployment Logan McLeod – Database Technology Strategist

THE DELL IT PRODUCTION DATABASE ENVIRONMENT % of Production Databases # of Production Database Servers

HOW DOES DELL DO IT? Establish standards early Effective build and maintenance documentation Maintain and evolve the standards Standards Enforces standards Consistent, globally supportable environments Helps eliminate lessons re-learned Enables Grid Computing / Consolidation Automation Rapid Deployment of Environments Reclamation of resources during idle periods Respond to rapidly changing business demand Consolidation

Many Applications Many Databases One Cluster Pooled Storage INFRASTRUCTURE GRID COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE

STRATEGIC VISION: DATABASE GRID COMPUTING Dell Confidential and Beyond Chip Enablement, Increases in Processor Density, Memory Capacity, IO, and Network, Power Efficiencies Virtualized % of Server Infrastructure 64 Bit Linux Management Automation Oracle 10g R1 Oracle 10g R2 iSCSI / NAS Provisioning Automation and Workflow Boot from SAN/NAS Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Business Continuity / DR Multi-tiered Storage Pools Virtualization – Oracle VM Engineer Solution Pilot Deployment Migration Automation Development Convergence with Virtualization ImplementationInvestigation 1 st 6 Node Grid Deployed! Charge Back Implementation Mainstream Adoption Production Oracle 11g R1 1 st 16 Node Grid 100+ Instances

Consolidate development and test environments Enable rapid deployment, cloning, re-provisioning Reduce contention on logistics resources Consolidate storage environments Freedom to manage infrastructure lifecycle Efficient use of Data Center facilities REAL WORLD BENEFITS

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