1. Ron Carovano Manager, Business Development F5 Networks
Application delivery networks and oracle: engineered for real world performance
Ron Carovano
Manager, Business Development
F5 Networks

2. Oracle Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together
Q: Where’s the “white space” in this stack?
A: The Application Delivery Network!

3. Application Delivery Networking
Users
Data Center
Application
Delivery
Network
At Home
In the Office
On the Road
Oracle
Optimizing and securing the network for the delivery of Oracle applications

4. Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) in the Oracle Stack
Application Server Virtualization
App. Server
Web Server
Web Server Virtualization
Database Server Virtualization
Database Server
Storage
Storage Virtualization
User
Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) in the Oracle Stack
ADC

5. Engineered to Perform Together
Application Server Virtualization
App. Server
Web Server
Web Server Virtualization
Database Server Virtualization
Database Server
Storage
Storage Virtualization
User
Engineered to Perform Together
ADC

6. Value for Oracle Applications and Middleware Local Traffic Management (LTM) and Web Acceleration
High availability and acceleration for applications and middleware
Offloads processor intensive tasks, reducing server CPU load by 40%
Accelerates transaction speeds by 50% for web clients connecting over the WAN

7. Value for Oracle Web Access Management AAA Policy Enforcement and Single Sign-on
Integration with Oracle Access Manager
Consolidates WebGate functionality from dedicated proxy tier onto ADC

8. Value for Oracle Database Health Monitoring and TCP Connection Management
ADC sits in between the application servers and the database to intermediate and manage TCP connections
Monitors health of RAC instances and individual nodes within those instances
When a failure is discovered, LTM can instantly reset client TCP connections, eliminating costly downtime time waiting for individual TCP connections to timeout
Obviates manually resetting connections for scheduled and unplanned maintenance

9. Value for Data Replication over the WAN WAN Optimization Management (WOM)
Establishes a site-to-site tunnel with TCP settings optimized to the characteristics of the WAN link, accounting for bandwidth, latency, congestion, and packet loss
Employs hardware-based compression to minimize the amount of data transferred across the WAN link and accelerate compression and de-compression by offloading processing from the database host
Employs data de-duplication algorithms and dictionary-based lookups to eliminate retransmission of repeat data
Employs hardware-based encryption to secure the site-to-site tunnel across the WAN link and accelerate encryption and decryption by offloading processing from the database host
WOM works in conjunction with Oracle GoldenGate, Data Guard, Recovery Manager, and Streams

10. GoldenGate Performance

11. Recovery Manager Performance
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12. Value for Application and Database Security Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Database Firewall
Monitor database traffic from applications to detect and block SQL injection, privilege or role escalation, and other internal attacks
Correlate web application user identity with database security events for reporting and richer forensic information
When WAF detects a SQL injection pattern, the user’s metadata is logged to the Oracle Database Firewall
Oracle Database Firewall analyzes the SQL and applies the policy rule
Logged events can then be correlated in the reports

13. Value for Oracle Engineered Systems Local Traffic Management
Offload non-essential functions to ensure maximum utilization of Engineered Systems resources
Minimize migration challenges
10Gb gateway to connect users

14. Value for Oracle Network Attached Storage Intelligent File Virtualization
Horizontal scaling
Load balancing
Data migration
Heterogeneity
File Storage Control
BEFORE
AFTER

15. Value for Oracle Management Local Traffic Management (LTM) and Global Traffic Management (GTM)
High availability
Disaster recovery
Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, 11g, and 12c
Monitor and manage the network in harmony with Oracle in the datacenter

16. Engineered to Perform Together

17. References and Resources
F5.com
Oracle Validated Integration
Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture
availability/partner-maa html
TechValidate Customer Evidence Portal
portfolio-and-oracle-applications

18. Questions?

19. Thank You!

20. Contact Information
Ron Carovano
Manager, Business Development
F5 Networks, Inc.
401 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, WA
USA
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