1. Oracle Database Appliance
Stand alone DB / App server & High availability solution
Andrei Czompa
ODA - Solution Consultant
EMEA – OD Systems
28th of July 2017
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3. Agenda Overview Hardware S/M/L and HA Software and Templates1
Overview
Hardware S/M/L and HA
Software and Templates
Management
Q & A 2 3 4 5
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4. Typical Database Deployment Options Today
Engineered Systems
Converged/
Hyperconverged
Fully integrated SW & HW
Engineered, purpose built for optimization, value
Appliances for simplicity
Single vendor
Public cloud integration
Commodity
Build Your Own:
Generic workload consolidation
Integration stops at hypervisor
Multiple vendors
Many choices, customizable
Multiple vendors
No unified management
No end-to-end support
Here’s why.
Some IT shops decide to build their own infrastructure. Yes, that gives them many choices, and of course they can customize it to their heart’s desire.
But you’re left in a less-than-optimal situation. You’re responsible for integrating and supporting multiple vendors. You end up with piecemeal management. No one vendor is responsible for the whole environment. And, if you decide you want to move to cloud, there are no compatible options.
Other folks are going with converged and hyperconverged systems, but there are still challenges. Yes, you’re no longer building your own infrastructure – which is an improvement – but you still don’t get the best results.
For one thing, none of these solutions are optimized for Oracle databases. They are generic infrastructure solutions, aimed at generic workloads. Any integration they offer stops cold at the hypervisor, and doesn’t carry upwards to databases and applications. You’re still dealing with multiple vendors.
And, of course, none of the converged or hyperconverged vendors have a compatible cloud offering, which might be useful down the road.
That’s what Oracle Engineered Systems are all about – providing a better solution.
They fully integrate all hardware and software up and down the stack. They’re engineered for purpose-built roles, like databases. The can be delivered as appliances for simplicity. The entire solution is supported by a single vendor, Oracle. And they all have great cloud options ready to use today.
Not Optimized for Database
Not Optimized for Database
Optimized for Database
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5. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 Hardware
Single Node and Clustered Platform Choice
10GbE
Compute Node
InfiniBand
Compute Node
SAS
Compute Node
Disk Array
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6. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 Model Family
HIGHER
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA
RAC, RAC One, SI
Enterprise Edition
Virtualization
40 Cores
Up to 48 TB Data Storage (Raw)
PERFORMANCE
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2L
Single-instance
SE/SE1/SE2 or EE
20 Cores
Up to 28.8 TB Data Storage (Raw)
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M
Single-instance
SE/SE1/SE2 or EE
20 Cores
Up to 12.8 TB Data Storage (Raw)
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S
Single-instance
SE/SE1/SE2 or EE
10 Cores
Up to 12.8 TB Data Storage (Raw)
CAPACITY
HIGHER
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7. Overview Hardware S/M/L and HA Software Management Q & A 1 2 3 4 5
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8. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S
Entry
Component
Details
Database
Single Instance SE/SE1/SE2 and EE
Deployment
Bare Metal with KVM integration
CPU
1 x 10-core
2.2 GHz Intel Xeon E V4
Memory
128 GB (4 x 32 GB) Main Memory
Expandable to 384 GB
Storage
6.4 TB (2 x 3.2 TB) NVMe
Expandable to 12.8 TB raw
Boot Disk
2 x 480 GB SSD (Mirrored)
Ethernet
2 x 10GBase-T
Fiber
2 x 10GbE SFP+
Front View
Back View
Up to 2.6TB – 5.2TB usable database storage based on Normal redundancy
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9. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2M
Performance
Component
Details
Database
Single Instance SE/SE1/SE2 and EE
Deployment
Bare Metal with KVM integration
CPU
2 x 10-core
2.2 GHz Intel Xeon E V4
Memory
256 GB (8 x 32 GB) Main Memory
Expandable to 768 GB
Storage
6.4 TB (2 x 3.2 TB) NVMe
Expandable to 12.8 TB
Boot Disk
2 x 480 GB SSD (Mirrored)
Ethernet
4 x 10GBase-T
Fiber
2 x 10GbE SFP+
Front View
Back View
Up to 2.6TB – 5.2TB usable database storage based on Normal redundancy
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10. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2L
Consolidation
Component
Details
Database
Single Instance SE/SE1/SE2 and EE
Deployment
Bare Metal with KVM integration
CPU
2 x 10-core
2.2 GHz Intel Xeon E V4
Memory
256 GB (8 x 32 GB) Main Memory
Expandable to 768 GB
Storage
19.2 TB (6 x 3.2 TB) NVMe
Expandable to 28.8 TB
Boot Disk
2 x 480 GB SSD (Mirrored)
Ethernet
4 x 10GBase-T
Fiber
2 x 10GbE SFP+
Front View
Back View
Up to 6.5TB – 10.4TB usable database storage based on Normal redundancy
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11. NVM Express Bandwidth Breakthrough
Bandwidth to Each SSD Increased by 2.6x
Conventional SSDs
Flash data is first transformed to SAS protocol
Bandwidth to each SSD limited by SAS-3 bandwidth
Oracle’s x86 Servers
PCIe Root Complex
Memory
PCIe SAS Controller
PCIe Gen3
Standard SSD
Flash
SAS-3
to Flash Controller
12 Gb/sec
SAS-3
NVM Express SSDs
Eliminates the protocol transformation to SAS
Interfaces with root complex over a four-lane PCIe Gen3 interface
Oracle’s x86 Servers
PCIe Root Complex
Memory
NVM Express SSD
Flash
PCIe
to Flash Controller
32 Gb/sec
PCIe Gen3
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12. KVM on ODA X6-2S/X6-2M/X6-2L
Does Oracle Linux include support for KVM?
Yes it does! KVM is a feature of Oracle Linux today. Please refer to My Oracle Support Doc ID And more importantly, Oracle Linux Premier Support is included with Oracle Premier Support for Systems and Engineering Systems, such as ODA hardware support.
Oracle Database Appliance models X6-2S/X6-2M/X6-2L are including the KVM libraries in the software stack that is deployed on ODA starting with release Available today on My Oracle Support.
In this initial role out of KVM on ODA, you will easily be able to startup the KVM service to create guest VMs to deploy applications. By deploying applications in a guest VM, you can run both databases and applications with isolation capabilities; essentially creating a Solution-in-a-Box with ODA platform. 
More information about KVM on ODA SML can be found here :
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13. Results Model IOPS (8K Block Size) Response Time (mS) MPS (1MB Block)
ODA X6-2M
Read (2 disks)
500K
0.2
6.8GB/sec
Write (2 disks)
125K
0.5
1.2GB/sec
ODA X6-2L
Read (6 disks)
1.4M
20GB/sec
Write (6 disks)
374K
3GB/sec
Model
Configuration
Average Transactions Per Second
Average Response Time
ODA X6-2S
4 cores : 3250 users
3400
2.5mS
10 cores : 7400 users
7700
2.8mS
ODA X6-2M
2.9mS
20 cores : users
14000
5.8mS
ODA X6-2L
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14. Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA
High Availability
Component
Details
Database
RAC, RAC One, Single Instance EE
Deployment
Bare Metal or Virtualization
System
2 x Servers, 1 x Storage Shelf
Optional Second Storage Shelf
CPU
4 x 10-core 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon E V4
Memory
512 GB (16 x 32 GB) Main Memory
Expandable to 1.5 TB
Storage
800 GB SSD for Redo Logs, 12 TB SSD for Data
Expandable to 24 TB SSD in Single Shelf
Boot Disk
2 x 480 GB SSD (Mirrored) per server
Interconnect
Redundant InfiniBand or 10GBase-T Interconnect
Public Network
10GBase-T and optional 10GbE SFP+
ODA X6-2-HA Storage Expansion Shelf
Storage
800 GB SSD for Redo Logs
24 TB SSD for Data
Up to 3.9TB – 17.2TB usable database storage based on Normal redundancy
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15. Results Model IOPS (8K Block Size) Response Time (mS)
MPS (1MB Block Size)
ODA X6-2-HA
Read (10 disks)
725K
0.8
7.6GB/sec
Write (10 disks)
325K
3.1GB/sec
Model
Configuration
Average Transactions Per Second
Average Response Time
ODA X6—2-HA
4 cores : 4250 users
4456
4.0mS
20 cores : users
19900
5.9mS
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16. ODA X6-2-HA – Virtualized Platform Option
Partition cores to VMs to isolate workloads
Creation of shared repositories for VM and VDisk storage
High Availability of Guest VMs with automatic restart and failover
VDisk Management
Support VLANs to provide additional networks and security
Start/Stop VMs
Node 1
Node 0
Guest Domain
Guest Domain
Guest Domain
Guest Domain
DOM 0
VM Storage Repository
ODA_Base
DOM 0
VM Storage Repository
ODA_Base
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Grid Infrastructure
Clusterware
ASM
ACFS
Appliance Manager
Oracle Database
Grid Infrastructure
Clusterware
ASM
ACFS
Appliance Manager
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17. Storage Architecture Configuration
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2S/X6-2M/X6-2L
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2-HA
Tracks the layout, configuration and status of storage
Monitors the disks for hard and soft failures
Proactively off lines disks that:
Failed, predicted to fail, performing poorly
Performs corrective actions if possible
These actions ensure highest level availability and performance at all times
ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)
data
reco
data
reco
redo
repo1..N
ASM Disk Groups
+DATA, +RECO
ASM Disk Groups
+DATA, +RECO, +REDO
NVMe
SSDs
Log SSDs
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18. Shared Repository and VM High Availability
Storage for VMs on Shared Disks
VM Auto Restart
Shared Repository
Provides additional storage capacity for VMs
Enables VM auto restart and failover
Full OAKCLI integration to create and size
VM Auto Restart
Unplanned VM failure
Auto restarts VM on same node with no manual intervention
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19. VDisk Allows dynamic addition of storage to existing VM
Add Additional Guest VM Storage
Node-0
Node-1
Guest VM
ODA_BASE
Guest VM
ODA_BASE
Allows dynamic addition of storage to existing VM
Support for VM exclusive and shared VDISK
Full OAKCLI integration
Shared Repository
VDisk-1
VDisk-2
VDisk-3
VM Template
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20. ODA X6-2S/X6-2M/X6-2L Network Details
Supports Both 10GBase-T and 10GbE SFP+ Network Interfaces
Type
Interfaces
Bonds
IP Addresses
10GBase-T
em1 em2
em3
em4
btbond1 btbond2
Not available on ODA X6-2S
10GbE SFP+
P2p1
p2p2
sfpbond1
Priv / ILOM
priv1
Private Interface
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21. VLAN Support Servers have finite number of networks
Provide Network Security Isolation for Multiple Workloads Sharing Common Network
Servers have finite number of networks
ODA X6-2-HA has 2 bonded public network interfaces
When multiple networks are required, there needs to be a way to share the network interfaces provided
Support for VLANs enable the sharing of a common network interface, but still provide security isolation (cannot sniff packets of a different workload)
Application, backup, management networks
Requires a switch that supports tagged VLANs
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22. Software and Templates Management Q & A1
Overview
Hardware
Software and Templates
Management
Q & A 2 3 4 5
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23. Support of Both Oracle Database Editions
Enterprise Edition – ,
Supported on all ODA X6-2 models
Standard Edition (SE, SE1, SE2) – ,
Supported on ODA X6-2S/X6-2M/X6-2L
Oracle SE, SE1, SE2 and EE database editions are the SAME software stack
Database Options only supported on EE
Advanced Security Option, In-Memory, Mutitenant, …..
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24. OLTP Database Templates Sized for Performance
Provides well defined database configuration templates …
Sizing for CPU and Memory
Out of the box allocation for SGA and PGA
Incorporates all best practice database init parameters
Advise on the storage characteristics
Multiple sizes to satisfy various workloads
Three REDO logs are created in appropriate disk group
Database Class
CPU Cores
SGA (GB)
PGA (GB)
REDO Log File Size (GB)
Odb-01s 1 2
Odb-01 4
Odb-02 8
Odb-04 16
Odb-06 6 24 12
Odb-10 10 40 20
Odb-12 48
Odb-16 64 32
Odb-20 80
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25. Software and Templates Management Q & A1
Overview
Hardware
Software and Templates
Management
Q & A 2 3 4 5
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26. Simplified Deployment
Faster Time To Value
Benefits
Download latest ODA software bundle
Gather configuration info through a Wizard
Deploys Oracle Database Appliance with Single Instance in 30 minute and with Oracle RAC in 90 minutes
No need to install or configure the OS
No knowledge required to install Oracle Clusterware, RAC and Database
Completely tested and validated by Oracle
Complete
Configure Storage 2 1
Configure Networking 3
Create Cluster 4
Create Database 5
Create ASR
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27. Deployment and Management tools
ODA X6-2S/X6-2M/X6-2L
ODACLI Command Line
Web Console
ODA X6-2-HA
OAKCLI Command Line
GUI Configurator
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28. Manage Performance with Integrated QoS Management
EM Cloud Control dashboard of all ODA database workloads
Easily monitor performance and health of ODA-hosted DB applications
Receive alerts and notifications of performance issues
Built-in autonomic ODA resource trade-off expert system
Optimizes ODA resource trade-offs between workloads to maintain SLAs
Provides action audit trail and performance history
As companies have embarked upon consolidation initiatives to increase the return on their IT dollar, the requirement to not only perform physical consolidation to fewer datacenters but application consolidation on shared hardware such as Oracle Database Appliance grows. Having many applications sharing hardware is only possible if Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can be defined and actively managed. Active management not only means monitoring but requires the ability to dynamically trade off resources “just-in-time” to meet current demand. This is the focus and the solution provided by Oracle’s Quality of Service Management technology.
This becomes especially important on systems with fixed capacity or capacity-on-demand (COD) as in ODA. By using QoS Management, one can maximize the use of current resources as well as justify an increase in capacity with actual performance data that reports resource bottlenecks.
Oracle QoS Management was designed from the start to fully integrate into Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. Its interface is designed to present logical task-based management. A six step wizard walks the admin through the creation of a Policy Set. An easy-to-monitor dashboard displays the entire performance of the cluster and the state of your SLAs at a glance. It also displays any resource re-allocation recommendations should a workload not be meeting its objective with one-click or automatic implement capability. A comprehensive set of historical metrics pages show overall system individual performance classes with 5 second resolution of performance satisfaction, response time, demand, and resource use and wait data.
QoS Management in Action
QoS Management is based upon defining a system-wide set of policies that sets up performance objectives based upon classes of work and availability of resources. These policies not only specify performance objectives but allow ranking of classes based upon how relatively critical it is to meet their SLAs. Specific policies can be enabled based upon a calendar schedule, maintenance windows, events, etc.
Classify and Measure
Key to the implementation is being able to classify types of work and capture correlated metrics. The Oracle Database has been natively instrumented to provide accurate resource use and wait metrics based upon classification. Then SLAs can be mapped to these classifications based upon user or application specified database session parameters.
Analyze and Recommend
Once these metrics are captured from each session and correlated, they can be analyzed against their performance objective and a “performance satisfaction metric” generated. Should the system have classes not meeting their objectives, the ability to analyze active and wait times for each tier reveals the resource bottlenecks. Thus recommendations are generated every minute and if necessary specify trade-offs in resource allocation to improve the situation and help ensure the most business critical performance classes continue to meet their objectives if resources are insufficient. These recommendations include such changes as reallocating CPU shares, to growing and shrinking the number of CPUs or servers hosting the classes. Each recommendation also includes projected results, detailed analysis and time to settle to help in determining whether to implement it.
Recommendations include actions that result in new resource allocations, thus the ability to perform these dynamically without application downtime is essential. The system makes use of such Oracle technologies as RAC, Clusterware, Resource Manager, Instance Caging, etc. to implement these recommendations easily and transparently to the end user. Once Operations Managers and DBAs have confidence in QoS recommendations they can authorize them per action type and policy to be implemented automatically much like a cruise control for their RAC cluster.
Implement and Control
Crucial to an effective management system is the ability to continuously evaluate and log the ongoing performance and results of any changes. This ranges from generating alerts and notifications to viewing historical performance and demand data and drilling down to resource bottlenecks to better adjust policies to continue to meet the performance objectives in the future.
Evaluate and Report
QoS Management is designed to be iterative in order to respond to real world changes in demand yet do so in a way that maximizes resource utilization without continuous re-allocation. The end result is an intelligent “key performance indicator” of the health of your ODA deployment which provides a real-time easy to understand view of all your hosted databases from their applications’ perspective. Integration with EMCC’s notification framework allows performance issues to be alerted early and just-in-time resource allocations to be made to relieve bottlenecks. Best of all, is that QoS Management server and EMCC functionality is included in the RAC and R1N licenses.
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29. Enterprise Manager Plug-In
Streamlined enterprise-grade monitoring
Centralized console to monitor multiple ODAs along with other data center assets using Enterprise Manager
New ODA target and system page to provide system view, status, etc.
Simple tag-based approach to create ODA groups
Aggregated component level analytics across ODA groups
Hierarchical viewer to show relationships
Full support for both Bare Metal and Virtualized Platform deployments
Full support for all ODA hardware versions
The Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle Database Appliance streamlines enterprise-grade monitoring.
It provides an Enterprise Manager centralized console to monitor multiple ODAs
Creates a new ODA system target
Targets are entities such as systems, hosts, databases, etc. that can be monitored and managed in Enterprise Manager
Links all ODA component targets to ODA system target
Includes components such as ASM, Hosts, Hypervisor, ILOM, Appliance Manager, Database
Displays ODA system target information through an ODA System page
Provides a single view of the entire ODA system
General information such as availability, configuration info, utilization and system status
VM and Storage status
Incidents
System and component versions
Topology
Enables Multi-Oracle Database Appliance Monitoring through system tags
System tags are unique identifiers to classify ODA systems
Examples: production, development, test, etc.
Provide aggregated component level analytics across multiple ODAs and groups
Availability, Capacity, Configuration, Incidents, and Topology
An ODA can be part of one or more system tags
Default tag is created during EM Plug-In installation
All ODAs
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30. Update software repository
Patching
Patched with current Patchset, DB Bundle / PSU and all critical one-offs
No need to research the required patches -- From firmware to database
No need to test end-to-end inter-operability -- Oracle thoroughly tests the entire stack
No need to have the knowledge to patch the components -- Automated patching process does it for you
Complete
Update software repository 2 1
Download Bundle Patch 3
Update OS, GI, ILOM, BIOS 4
Update Firmware 5
Update Database(s)
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31. Questions?
Q&A