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2. How to Sell Storage Foundation for Databases (Oracle/Oracle RAC/DB2/Sybase)

3. Three Architectures Customer Need VERITAS Solution
Increased Availability Performance and Storage Manageability
Highest Level of Scalability, Storage Manageability, and Mission Critical Availability
High Availability and Storage Manageability
Customer Need
VERITAS
SFDB
VERITAS
SFDB/HA
VERITAS
SFOR
VERITAS Solution

4. Three platforms
VERITAS
SFDB
VERITAS
SFDB
VERITAS
SFDB

5. Database running on Storage Foundation
What does Storage Foundations do for database environments?
Performance
Extent-based allocation
Availability
Software Raid
Replication
Fault tolerance
DMP
Manageability
On-line administration of storage ecosystem
Efficient organization of files on disk
Improved file manageability

6. Storage Foundation for Database
What does SFDB do for database environments ?
Performance
Raw I/O performance with files system manageability
On-line detection and correction of datafile hotspots
QoSS placement of Index files
Availability
Fast database backup solutions
Fast database recovery solutions
Fast operator error recovery solutions
Manageability
Database specific management tools
Isolation of DB applications off-host for improve productivity
Raw files to VxFS Migration feature

7. SFDB Business Value Proposition
Manageability
Increase DBA efficiency by reducing the complexity and time to administrate a growing Oracle database.
High Availability
Deliver various local and remote database availability options for different levels of data integrity requirements.
Performance
Deliver raw disk database I/O performance with VxFS manageability.
Recoverability
Deliver various database recovery solutions for various recovery time requirements.
Off-Host Processing
Move resource consuming activities like backup and ad-hoc queries off host to increase database productivity, availability and performance.
Faster Backups
Shrink backup window with block level backups.
Seamless Integration
Integration of Foundation Suite, NetBackup Agents, VCS and VEA
Key take always
Optimum performance with manageability.
Mission Critical means Availability and Storage Foundation has a number of options
Accidents happen and Storage Foundation has a number of options to recover your production environment
Need more production from your production environment,
Need more time for backups, and other maintenance activities, Storage Foundation has a number of options move these production cycles consuming activities off host.
Storage Foundation wants to eliminate the term, backup window and VERITAS will show you a couple techniques.
One stop shopping, it all works together seamlessly.

8. Why do Database Managers require SFDB?
DBAs must support a constantly changing database environment:
Increasing number of users
Rapidly growing volumes of data
High availability
Service level agreements for performance and availability
Reduce overall cost
Database environments are performance challenged
Database maintenance and performance tuning is labor intensive and subject to costly operator errors
24x7 uptime requires that full backups be performed only on weekends
Downtime can cost hundreds of thousand or millions – often unrecoverable

9. Selling Topics SF for DB Selling Basics SF for DB Features
Performance
Manageability
Availability
SF for DB Competition
SF for DB Pricing and Configuration
SF for DB compared to APM
SF for Oracle RAC IO Fencing
SF for Oracle RAC Competition

10. SF for DB Sales Basics

11. Customer Profile Large, important applications
Siebel, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle Apps, custom apps
Manufacturing  Inventory systems
Financial services  Trading databases
Government  Public records
Telco  Call/Billing systems
Insurance/Health  Records

12. Customer Profile: Database Ecosystem
Anyone running large database (Oracle, DB2 or Sybase)
500 Mbytes or greater
Tier 3A on Sun, HP and IBM and higher
Anyone running a mission critical database environment
Down time will affect revenue
Requires immediate recovery from any outages
Any environment where backups are an issue
Daily full backups costly
Affect production operations
Anyone remotely interested in 9iRAC or 10g
Symptom of requiring feature benefits of Storage Foundation

13. The Influencers System Admins & DBAs
System Administrators take care of:
Servers, Operating Systems, Storage, Software Installs
Database Administrators (DBA) take care of:
DB Configuration; Performance Tuning, App developers

14. Good Opportunity: Oracle, DB2 and/or Sybase is the primary DB
Has the account upgrade?
Upgrades provide you an opportunity to break in!
Do they have highly trained SAs and DBAs
They can understand/use of our benefits!
Is Oracle strategic and do they have strong DBAs, they may try Oracle9i RAC and listen to the Oracle10g FUD
Position Oracle 10g as a paradigm shift for Oracle with new and feature incomplete feature offerings
Position Veritas as offering the10g value proposition today with proven technologies
If customer is considering RAC, but customer’s RTO (recovery time objective) does not require RAC
Consider selling Storage Foundation for Database

15. Bad Opportunities Small Businesses Windows focused accounts
Anyone without dedicated Unix Admins and Database DBAs
Windows focused accounts
No Storage Foundation products planned for Windows

16. Storage Foundations 4.0 for Oracle /HA Architecture
Application
Storage Foundations for Database Enterprise is a performance variant of Foundation Suite.
The key differences between foundation and DBE is increased performance due to QIO and database management attributed to VxDBA. For customers that want performance with files system manageability, DBE is the optimum solution.
Foundation layer provides:
Online administration of database storage
Java-based Storage Administrator GUI
Raw disk performance and ease of file system administration
Protection from disk failures with fault-tolerant storage options
Automatic monitoring and recovery of Oracle (HA Edition)
Database Plug-ins
QIO, Cached QIO, ODM, Storage CheckPoint/Rollback, dbclone
Options & Agents
FlashSnap, Storage Mapping, BLIB Agents
Storage Foundations for Database uses VCS for application failover to deliver higher availability.
Oracle DB
VERITAS Cluster Server
SF for Databases: QIO, CQIO, ODM,
On-line Storage Mapping & FlashSnap
Storage Foundation: 64-Bit, PDC, QoSS,
DMP, Storage Provisioning & Checkpoints
Storage Foundation for Databases
/HA

17. Storage Foundation 4.0 for Databases Oracle/DB2/Sybase .
Enhanced Manageability
64-Bit File Size Support
Multi-Volume Support
Quality of Storage Service
Enhanced Dynamic Multi-pathing
Database Checkpoint Enhancement
Performance Tuning Utilities:
Enhanced Storage Mapping option
Online Database Reconfiguration
On-Line Snapshot Management
On-Line Checkpoint/Rollback Management
Instant Checkpoint/Recovery
On-Line Database Recovery Management
VERITAS management for databases
One console: Manage multiple systems, independent of hardware platform.
Automates scheduled redundant mundane tasks via policy
Reduce human error, increase system uptime and efficient.
VERITAS Editions is integrated with VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File System.

18. Storage Foundation for DB2
What’s new for DB2?
Storage Checkpoints/Rollback
Storage Mapping
Database Clone
FlashSnap Integration (4.0 AIX)
Concurrent Quick I/O (4.0 AIX)
Simplifies and automates management of Quick I/O files
Enables SMS (System Managed Space) support
SMS represents significant portion of DB2 customers
DB2 EEE MPP Support (4.x)
Particularly important for Data Warehousing environments
Enables an “Oracle RAC – like” solution for DB2

19. Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
Complete solution for Oracle9i RAC
Based on core VERITAS technologies
Specific enhancements for the RAC environment
Optimized & Tested with Oracle9i RAC
Certified by Oracle
Oracle9i RAC
VERITAS Storage Foundation
for Oracle RAC
RAC Enhancements
Cluster Server
Database Accelerator (ODM)
Cluster File System
Cluster Volume Manager
This is the high level overview of DBE/AC
DBE/AC is a complete solution for RAC
It is a piece of infrastructure software that sits between Oracle RAC and the HW/OS
DBE/AC is designed specifically for Oracle RAC databases.
Because this offering is specifically for RAC, it is optimized and tested with RAC
DBE/AC has been certified by Oracle to work with RAC (ie extensive interoperability tests have been performed)
Customers can see our certification on the Oracle website (Oracle Technology Network)
Within DBE/AC there are several components based on core VERITAS technology:
Cluster Volume Manager – utilizes technology from our leading Volume Manager product
Cluster File System - utilizes technology from our leading File System product
Database Accelerator (ODM) – This is a library we created specifically for DBE/AC. The library interfaces with Oracle’s ODM API (explained later)
Cluster Server - utilizes technology from our leading Cluster Server product
RAC Extensions – new technology we created specifically for RAC (explained later)
For customers who already use VERITAS solutions this can be a valuable slide because they will not need retraining. The GUI and command line are the same for VxVM, VxFS, and VCS as they are in DBE/AC. Many customers have chosen VCS or Foundation Suite for ease of use or extra felxibility. All those benefits apply to DBE/AC as well.
Hardware/OS

20. VERITAS Cluster File System
Concurrent access to file systems from multiple nodes
Extension of VERITAS File System™ technology
All nodes can directly read/write
VERITAS provides the only enterprise-class Cluster File System in the market that is certified with RAC
Lower administration costs
Oracle9i RAC
RAC Enhancements
Cluster Server
Database Accelerator (ODM)
Cluster File System
Cluster Volume Manager
This is the key feature in DBE/AC!
VERITAS is the only one who provides a CFS for RAC on Solaris or HP-UX
Sun Cluster does not provide a CFS that is RAC certified
Service Guard does not provide a CFS for RAC either
Cluster File System is an extension of VxFS
The same commands and GUI are used, so existing VxFS customers will be able to reuse their existing knowledge
This is not a proxy file system, all nodes in the cluster can read/write directly to storage
The same VxFS features are available in CFS including Grow and shrink the file system
Hardware

21. SFAC key selling point Why is a CFS so Valuable? Management Costs!
Easier Installation and Maintenance
One copy of everything
Easier Backups & Instance Recovery
Access to Archive logs
Administrator knowledge
Never run raw before, commands don’t work
Storage configuration
1:1 mapping datafiles to raw devices
Ever build a SAN with hundreds of LUNs?
Why is a CFS important in a RAC environment?
Because it dramatically reduces the management costs!
Here are some examples:
1. with a CFS, you can install the Oracle RAC binaries once, and all node can access the files (it is a CFS after all)
without a CFS the customer will be forced to install the binaries on every node.
The extra installations do not provide any additional value, they are just wasted effort
the same example holds for software patches/updates or any scripts or 3rd party tools that the customer will use
with a CFS you will update one per cluster, without it you will be forced to admin each node individually
2. When a node fails in RAC, the other surviving nodes take over the work of the failed node
in order to do this they must have access to the failed nodes data (ie the Oracle REDO logs)
with a CFS this is easy because all nodes can access all files on the CFS
without this, you must do some very complicated mounting of shared raw devices via NFS
this is awkward to install and difficult to manage.
The same is true for doing backups. All backup software needs access to the Oracle archived redo logs.
If those Archive Logs are not on a CFS, it is very difficult/complicated to schedule backups without data loss.
3. Most DBAs and System Administrators have never run an application ona raw environment before. The
normal commands (ls, mkdir, tar, ln, df) don’t work in a raw environment. Additionally many 3rd party tools don’t support
a raw environment (they depend on a file system being present). Oracle RAC is usually run on very important applications
so it is not a good time for administrators to have to learn.
4. Oracle databases require a 1 to 1 mapping of datafiles to raw devices. This unnecessarily complicates the environment when compared
to a file system. Many applications require hundreds of datafiles, in raw this equates to hundreds of devices == complex ! On a CFS, each datafile is simply a file
adding a new file is as simple as creating a new file.

22. How to sell SFDB? Ask the customer:
Are you a Database Administrator (DBA) or System Administrator?
Review DBA or System Admin positioning
Are you happy with the performance of your database environment?
Go to the Performance
Are you spending more time maintaining database availability instead of maximizing your performance?
Go to Availability
Do you want more productivity from your existing database environment?
Go to Manageability
Are you maintaining a backup schedule that meets your recoverability requirements 100% of the time?
Go to Back up Scenario

23. How to sell SFDB? Ask the customer:
Are you currently running your database on Storage Foundations
Sell Performances with Manageability and Availability
ODM/QIO Performance
FlashSnap Off Host process
BLIB Fast backup integration with Netbackup
Checkpoint Backup and restores from checkpoints equals
faster backups and restores
Are you running Storage Foundation on your SUN database applications but not on similar IBM or HP applications?
Are you migrating your applications from Sun to HP or IBM
Ask them why to find out why the Solaris users like SFDB?
SFDB solves the same HP and IBM OS file system problems

24. What to Tell the DBA?
DBA only care about database performance, manageability and availability
Enhanced Performance
Delivers raw I/O performance (or better) with file system flexibility
Improved Manageability
Simplifies complex DBA tasks and increases DBA span of control.
Storage Mapping Option lets DBAs use Oracle Enterprise Manager to view data placement down the storage stack (currently only with DBED Oracle)
High Availability
Protects your database with quick recovery tools, HA for application and system failover, as well as hot disk relocation and DMP
FlashSnap allows point-in-time data copies to
Address shrinking backup windows
Enable off-host processing of critical tasks without impacting production database and without requiring complex scripts

25. What to Tell the System Admin?
System Admin require easier Database Storage Manageability and more efficient backup solutions
Automates routine system administration tasks, reduces operator error, supports online database storage reconfiguration
Full integrated suite of database storage management, performance and availability solutions from a single vendor
Storage Checkpoints and Storage rollback reduce overhead during backup and enable quick recovery
Saves time and reduces the backup window using the NBU and BLIB to do block-level incremental backup

26. What to Tell the Executive?
SFDB will protect their Investment protection and enable organizational efficiencies
Protect your database investment with a vendor-certified solution for data management
Reduces storage cost and eliminate vendor lock-in by managing heterogeneous arrays
Increases business margins by reducing operation costs and unplanned downtime
Simplifies and centrally manages heterogeneous database storage environments

27. SF for DB
Performance

28. How to sell performance?
Superior Performance
Is your performance degrading as your database environment grows?
Storage Foundation provides optimal performance over time by supporting:
very large file systems and databases
disk striping for improved I/O performance
ability to move resource intensive tasks off-host with FlashSnap option
Are you looking for raw device performance without the hassles of raw device management?
Storage Foundation provides raw I/O performance (or better) with VERITAS File System manageability

29. SFDB Performance QIO, CQIO, ODM Potential Raw I/O Performance QoSS
Position data for speed
On Line FlashSnap
Move off-host, production deadweights
DMP
Load Balancing for speed
Enhanced Storage Mapping
Detect & Correct disk I/O hot spots
SF DB and Indepth Performance Tuning
Detect, Diagnose and Correct all Database Application Performance Issues

30. Storage Foundation for Databases Database Snapshot
FlashSnap
Manage database FlashSnap from VEA GUI
Incremental Volume Level Checkpoints for better performance
Similar to File System Checkpoints
Split Mirror Before snapshot is Synchronized
Faster utilization of snapshot
Does not require quiescent database
Instant mode for Checkpoint and FlashSnap
Fast resync
Reverse Resync from secondary to primary
Instant mode for Checkpoint and FlashSnap
Cannot roll forward from ‘instant’ checkpoint
Database level rollback only
Fast resync
Only changed data blocks need to be resynchronized

31. FlashSnap for off-host processing
Why:
Create duplicate volume snapshot without impacting production to:
Run ERP reports or Decision Support queries
Maintain multiple ONLINE versions of my database for quality assurance testing
When:
Production systems are overloaded
Operations are 24x7x365
Performance cannot be compromised
Facing shrinking backup windows
Problem: Performance on the primary data server can be significantly degraded by routine tasks such as backup and running decision support queries.
VERITAS FlashSnap is a flexible and easy-to-use point-in-time copy solution that enables
administrators to manage snapshots at the logical file system or volume level. It eliminates the
error-prone, tedious task of mapping physical disks to logical volumes. It supports up to 32 full
volume-level snapshots or a virtually unlimited number of space-saving copies at the file level,
allowing IT administrators to do more with their data.
FlashSnap allows administrators to address shrinking maintenance and backup windows and
recover quickly from data corruptions errors. FlashSnap also supports parallel operations in
different resource intensive processes, such as off-host processing for decision support analysis,
reporting, application testing, data backup and logical error recovery.
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High level FlashSnap benefits:
Minimizes performance issues and planned downtime due to routine backup and maintenance
Snapshot technology allows administrators to:
Create duplicate volume snapshot of database
Move resource-consuming activities off-host
Enables quick recovery of data
Adds flexible options for DB2 backups
On-disk backup images for fast recovery

32. Storage Foundations for Databases Off-Host Processing
Database FlashSnap
Unlimited Number of Snapshots
Restore an Entire File System to a Point In Time
Create Storage CheckPoints Faster
Instant Refresh
Creates new Point-in-Time Image from existing images
Instant Restore
Option to Preserve the original mirror
Instant Reattach
Ability to select the mirrors to reattach

33. Storage Foundation for Databases Performance Enhancements at the storage level
DMP
Several New Load Balancing Algorithms
Balanced path
Round-robin
Minimum queue length
Priority-Based
Adaptive Priority
Concurrent A/P
A/P-C, A/PG-C

34. Storage Foundation for Database Detect and correct hotspots down to disk level
Enhanced Storage Mapping
Detect hot spots faster & alleviate I/O performance bottlenecks
VEA displays detailed view of the entire storage hierarchy
Maps datafiles/containers down to the physical disks.
Collect and analyze disk I/O Statistics
Support for LUN to physical disk mapping
LUN-to-disk mapping for high-end arrays
VEA will reconfigure hot disks on-line for better performance
Use in conjunction with Indepth for optimum performance
Indepth maps SQL statements to physical disk
LUN-to-disk mapping for EMC and HDS Support for performance statistics
Only EMC inside statistics will be displayed

35. Storage Foundation for Databases Speed up Database Performance
QoSS
Database I/O Activity Exceeds Plan
DBA Decides to Move Busy Index Table
Add New Volume
Moved Index Online
Performance Improves
Index
QoSS can also be used in databases.
For example (read slide)
New
Volume
Index

36. Performance Solution SITUATION
Database is slow and impacting internal company productivity
Performance issues are impacting customer access to data, leading them to take their business elsewhere
SOLUTION
Install Storage Foundation and utilize unique database accelerator technologies that provide the best of both worlds – raw disk performance with file system manageability
RESULTS
ODM/Quick I/O provides performance equivalent to running database on raw disks
ODM/Cached Quick I/O enhances Quick I/O – even exceeding raw performance
Extent-based allocation optimizes large I/O performance and reduces file system fragmentation for faster I/O throughput
Enhance performance online using RAID, DMP and other tuning tools

37. SF for DB Features
Manageability

38. How to sell Manageability
Improved Manageability
Do you require on-line database tuning, file management and storage reconfiguration capabilities?
Locate and reallocate free disk space
Dynamically resize file system
Hot Relocation (all free disk space in the array is available for hot sparing)
Enable various RAID configurations
How about automating administrative tasks to save time and reduce human errors?
Java-based integrated graphical interface
Policy-based detection and fast availability failover
Policy based management to:
Enable customer-specific failover criteria
Automatically detect failures and initiate fast failover for high availability
Automatically initiate DBA tasks

39. Manageability Speaking Points
Java-based Oracle integrated graphical interface
Automate error redundant and prone operational activities
Automatic disk storage space utilization management
Locate free disk,
Hot relocations,
Dynamically resize file system
Policy-based detection and and fast availability failover
Dynamic customer specific configurable HA failover criteria
Storage Mapping
Mapping Disk I/O stats directly to physical disk in an Array
Dbclone
Fast and efficient establishment of a duplicate database from checkpoints
Checkpoint Rollback
Quick recovery of logical database objects

40. Storage Foundation for Databases DBA Empowerment
VEA and VxDBA
Display performance and configuration information
Tune I/O performance
Online striping and/or mirroring
Monitor file system space usage
Set user-defiined policies
Send alarm notifications
Automatically grow file systems and volumes
Enable multi-channel load-balancing
Find and utilize free disk space
Display the space usage of file systems and Storage Checkpoints, to display current space alarm settings, and enable and configure space alarm settings
Display File System Space Usage
Display File System Space Alarm Settings
Enable/Disable/Modify Space Alarm Settings
VxDBA includes a light weight monitoring agent to:
monitor file system space usage
send alarm notifications and automatically grow file systems and volumes
growth based on user-defined policies
policies can be defined on a per file system basis
VxDBA allows DBAs to
Manage their databases
Display information on performance and configuration
Plan for additional storage needed by Storage Checkpoints
Manage Storage Checkpoint and Storage Rollback operations
Configure light weight monitoring agent to manage file system space for Storage Checkpoints

41. Storage Foundation for Databases Online Database Administration
VERTIAS Enterprise Administrator
Manual and/or automatic database resizing options
Accumulation of storage usage statistics at disk or file level
Gathering of performance statistics at the disk level
Modification of RAID configurations for performance tuning
Efficient management of available free disk space
Movement of data between physical devices
Defragmenting mounted file systems
Archive Scheduling
Management of multiple physical links from host to array and channel load balancing
Management of db recovery from various system outages
From the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) screen, DBAs can resize disk, reconfigure disk, find lost disk space, detect I/o hot spots.
Reduces human error and scales the capability and efficiencies of System administrators

42. VERITAS NetBackup Server 5.0 Advanced Client Agent includes BLIB
Changed Blocks Since Last Backup
VERITAS File System
with Storage Checkpoints
Oracle
Database
Minimize Your Database Backup Window
Enhanced performance
Shortened backup window lowers CPU and network resource drain during backups
More up-to-date backup images
Faster recovery from backups- recovery to a consistent database state is much faster than having to apply all the Oracle redo logs.
Requires NetBackup Server engine, BLIB agent, and database server to be a NetBackup client
Back up only changed data blocks!
Requires NetBackup Server engine to manage tape libraries and media and the database server as a NetBackup client
Block Level Incrementals
Previous Full
Backup +
Full Restore

43. Storage Foundation for Databases “In-place migration” from Raw to VxFS
DB Volume Encapsulation /
VxFS File System /
VxFS File System
Raw
Volume /
VxFS File System
Raw
Volume /
VxFS File System
Raw
Volume
Raw
Volume
Here we illustrate the ‘encapsulation’ of a database using raw volumes to a database running on top of a file system. We start with a raw volume, then add a second volume for the file system metadata, and storage checkpoints. Then we bring the two volumes together into a single file system, and encapsulation is complete. Why do this? Running on top of a file system makes administration more manageable. With VERITAS ODM, Cache Quick I/O, and Quick I/O, performance is as good as (or sometimes better than) raw. The final piece of the puzzle is the migration effort. Encapsulation reduces the migration effort to a few keystrokes.
New
Volume
File System
Metadata*
*e.g., intent log, inodes, directories, plus any new files

44. SF for DB Features
Availability

45. How to sell Availability
Higher Availability
Do you want a range of availability and recoverability options, as determined by the criticality of your data?
Do you need uninterrupted database access - in spite of system or application failures?
Do you need to protect your critical data in the event of component failures and replace components on-line?
Realize all of the above benefits with Storage Foundation HA (with VCS)
Do you want to move resource-intensive activities such as decision support, testing, ad-hoc queries off your production server?
Do you want to remove the headaches associated with shrinking backup windows?
Realize all of the above benefits with FlashSnap and Storage Checkpoints
Now let’s look at the availability benefits of Database Edition.
Logical volume management-based redundancy such as RAID makes physical device failures transparent, while the hot relocation feature enables and automates the online disk repair and replacement process.
Support for off-host processing
Storage Foundation integrates with the VERITAS FlashSnap option. FlashSnap provides point-in-time copies of the database to be exported off-host and is ideal for online backup, reporting, testing and decision support queries with minimal database downtime and performance impact.
Availability clustering
For even higher levels of availability, VERITAS offers Database Edition/HA for DB2 environments on AIX. Database Edition/HA adds VERITAS Cluster Server to the base Storage Foundation to provide a clustering solution which includes database monitoring and automatic database failover.
Online management such as storage reconfiguration and administration enables database administrators to tune the storage infrastructure without database downtime. This is particularly useful for managing high growth, dynamic DB2 environments. For example, file systems and underlying volumes can be resized; RAID levels can be changed; and new database containers or table spaces can also be easily created or extended.

46. Storage Foundation for Databases: High Availability
Hot relocation, DMP
Logical volume management
FlashSnap
Off-host processing
Storage Checkpoint Rollbacks
Fast recover from database mishaps
VxDBA
Creating and resizing containers/file systems
Veritas Cluster Server
2-32 node clustering
Now let’s look at the availability benefits of Database Edition.
Logical volume management-based redundancy such as RAID makes physical device failures transparent, while the hot relocation feature enables and automates the online disk repair and replacement process.
Support for off-host processing
Storage Foundation integrates with the VERITAS FlashSnap option. FlashSnap provides point-in-time copies of the database to be exported off-host and is ideal for online backup, reporting, testing and decision support queries with minimal database downtime and performance impact.
Availability clustering
For even higher levels of availability, VERITAS offers Database Edition/HA for DB2 environments on AIX. Database Edition/HA adds VERITAS Cluster Server to the base Storage Foundation to provide a clustering solution which includes database monitoring and automatic database failover.
Online management such as storage reconfiguration and administration enables database administrators to tune the storage infrastructure without database downtime. This is particularly useful for managing high growth, dynamic DB2 environments. For example, file systems and underlying volumes can be resized; RAID levels can be changed; and new database containers or table spaces can also be easily created or extended.

47. Storage Foundation/HA for Databases Minimizes unplanned downtime…
Integrated VERITAS Cluster Server
Logical Outages
= 80%
Component Outages
= 12%
Site Outages
= 8%
Software bug
Virus
Data corruption
Accidental delete
Dropped table
Operator Error
CPU fault
Disk failure
Array failure
HBA
NIC
Software
There are a number of factors to consider when building your high availability plan, but for it to be successful, you have to consider the different kinds of threats to your data and systems. We break down the threats in 3 main categories:
Logical outages
Logical outages are a when something happens in the app, database, operating system that you have no control over. Examples could be a software bug that crashes the system, a virus that deletes certain files or the entire storage systems, data corruption which means you can’t access your data, and so on.
Component outages
Component outages are when something occurs to your hardware, either at the server level, or more granularly at the CPU, Disk, NIC, HBA, etc, level. Examples could be an over heated CPU causes the system to crash, a disk with no space left, a NIC goes down, etc.
Site outages
The last category, and most uncommon are site outages. Site outages do not occur very often, but they still have to be planned for. A site out means that an entire site is either unavailable or wiped out. Examples could be power outages, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornados, war, etc.
Tornado
Hurricane
Earthquake
Act of War
Power Outage
Terrorism

48. Storage Foundation/HA for Databases
Removing Single Points of Failure
Integrated VERITAS Cluster Server
Database
NIC resource

49. Storage Foundation/HA for Databases
Removing Single Points of Failure
Integrated VERITAS Cluster Server
Automated support for all cluster configurations: up to 32 nodes
Maximize performance – Failover to the right server with the right resources
Heterogeneous hardware support
Providing high availability beyond the local data center
Continuous HA – even if a node is lost (no need for fail back)
Protection from local disasters
Cluster server workload management
Active Servers
One Spare
Most people think if clustering as a simple, two node configuration with one server active, and the other server passive (waiting for the primary server to fault). In fact, this seems to be the norm for most companies.
It is important to ask yourself, is it acceptable to have a so much hardware (or hardware utilization) just sitting idle? Is that a good use of resources?
In any clustering technology, regardless of vendor, clustering in it’s general purpose is very reactive. That means when a server, application or database faults, clustering technology takes appropriate steps to be sure there is minimal downtime to the services.
Being reactive, however, will not secure highest levels of availability to mission critical applications. What if there was a clustering application that not only provided the basic functionality of application or database failover but also was an application that can provide you with the necessary tools to monitor the systems and take appropriate action to prevent downtime before it happens?
VERITAS perceives clustering beyond providing a reactive application but rather providing a proactive application that brings high availability to a new level.

50. Oracle Full backups every 8 hrs to disc
Online
Offline
-8hr hr
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
EMC
EMC
Expensive

51. Oracle Full backups every 8 hrs to disc
Online
Offline
-8hr hr
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
CLARiiON
EMC
Less Expensive

52. Oracle application (assuming 20% change)
Online
Offline
-8hr hr
200 GB
200 GB
1 TB
1 TB
EMC
EMC
Cost Effective

53. Oracle Full backups every 8 hrs to disc
No need for PowerPath ~ 100k
No need for TimeFinder ~ 100k
Less Maintenance ~100k
Savings on Disk ~500k –1m
Total = 800k-1.3m for one system for one Database
*These saving are based on list price

54. Storage Foundation for Oracle Storage Checkpoint Rollback
15:00
Restore from last checkpoint
Reapply transactions 14: :59
Full DB
Backup
Transactions
Storage Checkpoints - on-disk, storage efficient images
Time 0:00
10: : : :00
Back in service - fast

55. Database Availability Solution
SITUATION
Mission-critical database must be available 24x7
Everyday storage administration tasks require data to be offline sometimes
Periodic component failures are impacting access to database
A database table was recently deleted, resulting in multiple hours of downtime
SOLUTION
Install Storage Foundation HA
Utilize standard Storage Foundation features such as RAID, DMP and Hot Relocation
RESULTS
Storage Foundation HA includes the industry’s leading clustering solution, VERITAS Cluster Solution
Storage Foundation HA enables intelligent, proactive management and failover for up to 32 nodes
RAID provides data redundancy with mirroring of database storage
DMP provides multiple paths from server to storage for uninterrupted data access
Hot relocation automates the online disk replacement and repair process
DATA IS AVAILABLE 24x7

56. COMPETITION & OBJECTION HANDLING1 38 2

57. Storage Foundation for Database Competition
Database Management and Performance
NOTE: THERE IS NO COMPETITIVE INTEGRATED SOLUTION AGAINST DATABASE EDITION
Feature
VERITAS
Raw Devices
IBM JFS
Sun UFS
HP OJFS = VxFS
Raw device performance
Yes
with file system manageability No
performance not as good as raw…potential data loss
Online, database file management
but tedious process
High Availability
multiple options
Maybe
not as robust as VERITAS
Heterogeneous solution?
In the area of Database Management and Performance, there is no product in the industry today that provides the comprehensive performance, availability and manageability advantages for DB2 and Oracle environments that are offered by VERITAS Database Edition.
Even so, the Storage Foundation are often compared against Raw devices and other file systems, such as IBM’s JFS, particularly in the area of performance.
One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors.
On the other hand, running DB2 or Oracle on IBM’s JFS file system can provide better manageability than raw devices, but typically with lower performance - anywhere from 30% to 90% of raw device performance – also with the potential for data loss since JFS doesn’t provide direct writes from the database to disk.
Storage Foundation provides performance that’s equal to or better than raw device performance, with the data integrity benefits of raw devices as well. Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide up to twice the OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Storage Foundation also enables a more robust HA solution than either a raw device or an IBM JFS environment. In a disaster recovery scenario, Storage Foundation would enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS, which is slowed down by block-based allocation versus the more efficient extent-based allocation that Storage Foundation uses.
When it comes to compatibility and investment protection, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas the raw devices are particular to the array they are running on, and IBM’s JFS solution, being part of the AIX operating system, is proprietary to that platform.
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

58. Competitive Benefits Performance
Latest performance results show that we can outperform OS File systems such as JFS and UFS in a variety of configurations…up to 2 x the performance
Industry’s only solution level approach to database storage management
Addresses performance, availability and manageability, not just performance
Integrates industry-leading volume management, file system and clustering technologies from VERITAS Software
Boosts performance with (C)QI/O regardless of number of database containers
Quick I/O and Cached Quick I/O performance is consistent regardless of the number of database containers, whereas OS file systems performance varies, therefore requiring more tuning of the underlying database storage to optimize performance
Q: IBM’s AIX includes the JFS file system. Why buy Database Edition?
A: Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide better OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Database Edition’s CPU utilization overhead is less than JFS and Storage Foundation also provides direct writes to disk for better data reliability and integrity. In a disaster recovery scenario, Database Edition’s extent-based allocation would also enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS. On top of this, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas IBM’s JFS solution is proprietary to the AIX platform.
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield very good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors. One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation also provides a more robust high availability solution with Database Edition/HA, compared to the clumsy HA solution that raw devices would provide
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

59. Competitive Benefits
Easily extend size of existing containers to dynamically accommodate database growth
Only requires one command and policies can be set up so that resizing is done automatically
Shrink file systems and underlying database volumes
This is absolutely unique to VERITAS today
Virtually unlimited file system or database size
Unlimited LUNs or disks in VxVM disk group
With LVM, the number of LUNs or disks per volume group is limited to 128
Instantaneously create new database containers on VxVM
Process only takes a second with Volume Manager…same process can take several minutes with LVM
Fast database re-creation for disaster recovery
With extent-based allocation, a 180GB database can be recreated in less than a minute…the same process can take more than a half hour with OS file systems.
Q: IBM’s AIX includes the JFS file system. Why buy Database Edition?
A: Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide better OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Database Edition’s CPU utilization overhead is less than JFS and Storage Foundation also provides direct writes to disk for better data reliability and integrity. In a disaster recovery scenario, Database Edition’s extent-based allocation would also enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS. On top of this, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas IBM’s JFS solution is proprietary to the AIX platform.
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield very good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors. One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation also provides a more robust high availability solution with Database Edition/HA, compared to the clumsy HA solution that raw devices would provide
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

60. Competitive Benefits Monitor I/O statistics at file level
For example, qiostat, vxstat enables monitoring at the file level with SFDB
Less CPU overhead
In OLTP environments, Quick I/O consumes about 20-30% less CPU overhead than OS file systems
Cached Quick I/O consumes about 40% less CPU overhead
Better data integrity since data is written directly to disk
No chance for data to be lost in file system cache
Heterogeneous solution for mixed storage platform support
Q: IBM’s AIX includes the JFS file system. Why buy Database Edition?
A: Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide better OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Database Edition’s CPU utilization overhead is less than JFS and Storage Foundation also provides direct writes to disk for better data reliability and integrity. In a disaster recovery scenario, Database Edition’s extent-based allocation would also enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS. On top of this, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas IBM’s JFS solution is proprietary to the AIX platform.
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield very good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors. One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation also provides a more robust high availability solution with Database Edition/HA, compared to the clumsy HA solution that raw devices would provide
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

61. Objection Handing and FAQs
Storage Foundation for DB2 and Oracle
Q: Sun, IBM and HP servers include their own file system and volume manager with the OS. Why buy Database Edition?
A1: Pay now or pay later. Poor performance of OS file systems cost every month. ROI is usually less than a year, depending on the customer environment.
A2: Storage Foundation provides on average 50% Better performance than OS file systems and
Easier online database storage management,
Less CPU overhead,
More robust HA
Better data integrity
File system shrinking
Faster database recovery
Better I/O statistics
Q: IBM’s AIX includes the JFS file system. Why buy Database Edition?
A: Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide better OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Database Edition’s CPU utilization overhead is less than JFS and Storage Foundation also provides direct writes to disk for better data reliability and integrity. In a disaster recovery scenario, Database Edition’s extent-based allocation would also enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS. On top of this, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas IBM’s JFS solution is proprietary to the AIX platform.
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield very good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors. One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation also provides a more robust high availability solution with Database Edition/HA, compared to the clumsy HA solution that raw devices would provide
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

62. Objection Handing and FAQs
Storage Foundation for DB2 and Oracle
Q: We like to use the database vendor-specific tools…why should we switch?
A1: Storage Foundation products supplement and enhance Database tools. They do not replace current vendor specific tools, but are integrated with them
A2: Storage Foundation allows databases to implement dynamic multi-pathing to cutting edge storage arrays that are currently not supported by the database vendor.
A3: Oracle Example: Storage mapping collects the mapping information for the underlying database configuration and is displayed on the Oracle console
Q: IBM’s AIX includes the JFS file system. Why buy Database Edition?
A: Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide better OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Database Edition’s CPU utilization overhead is less than JFS and Storage Foundation also provides direct writes to disk for better data reliability and integrity. In a disaster recovery scenario, Database Edition’s extent-based allocation would also enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS. On top of this, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas IBM’s JFS solution is proprietary to the AIX platform.
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield very good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors. One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation also provides a more robust high availability solution with Database Edition/HA, compared to the clumsy HA solution that raw devices would provide
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

63. Objection Handing and FAQs
Storage Foundation for DB2 and Oracle
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
A1: It’s the same performance
A1: VERITAS can not identify any specific raw performance advantages that justify the pain of managing dynamic and growing database without a file system.
A2: Raw devices are difficult to manage leading to potential downtime and high administration costs. Storage Foundation provides file system manageability with the data integrity and performance of raw devices
Q: IBM’s AIX includes the JFS file system. Why buy Database Edition?
A: Compared to IBM’s JFS, Storage Foundation can provide better OLTP performance, with easier online database container management and better tools for I/O statistics.
Database Edition’s CPU utilization overhead is less than JFS and Storage Foundation also provides direct writes to disk for better data reliability and integrity. In a disaster recovery scenario, Database Edition’s extent-based allocation would also enable a much faster recovery of the DB2 or Oracle database compared to JFS. On top of this, Storage Foundation also provides a heterogeneous solution for mixed platform environments that include AIX, whereas IBM’s JFS solution is proprietary to the AIX platform.
Q: Why buy Database Edition, when database vendors recommend running their database on raw devices?
While running databases on raw disk partitions can yield very good performance, the management and growth of the database environment is very difficult since database containers, table spaces, etc. cannot be resized easily, if at all, when running on raw devices. Administration costs can also be very high in a raw device environment, along with the potential costs of downtime caused by administrative errors. One of the biggest advantages provided by Storage Foundations the ability to provide Raw Device performance and data integrity with the manageability advantages of the VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation also provides a more robust high availability solution with Database Edition/HA, compared to the clumsy HA solution that raw devices would provide
***NEED TO CONFIRM ALL THE ABOVE WITH ROYSTON***

64. PRICING AND CONFIGURATION1 38 2

65. Sun Solaris Support
Increases database performance by up to six times the UNIX File System (UFS) running Direct I/O by caching frequently accessed data
Storage Foundation support on Sun Solaris Systems
·    Solaris 7, 8, 9*
·    Oracle 8.0.x or 8i, 9i, 9iR2
·    DB2 7.2 and 8.1
·    Sybase ASE 11.5, , 12.0 and 12.5
·    SPARC/Solaris cluster (up to 32 nodes) with shared storage for VERITAS Database Edition/HA
* Storage Foundation for DB2 and Sybase will support Solaris 9 later this year.

66. IBM AIX Support · AIX 5.1 AIX 5.2 · Oracle 8i, 9iR2
Increases database performance by up to two times the Journaled File System (JFS) by using Quick I/O and Cached Quick I/O
Storage Foundation support on AIX Systems
IBM AIX Systems
·    AIX 5.1 AIX 5.2
·    Oracle 8i, 9iR2
IBM AIX Cluster (up to 16 nodes) with shared storage for VERITAS Database Edition/HA for Oracle

67. HP-UX Support HP-UX Systems · HP-UX 11.0, 11i
HP’s OJFS file system is a limited version of VERITAS File System. Storage Foundation for Oracle is certified with HP ServiceGuard.
Storage Foundation support on HP-UX Systems
HP-UX Systems
·    HP-UX 11.0, 11i
·    Oracle 7.3.4, 8.0.x or 8i
·    No HA version available, VERITAS Cluster Server sold separately

68. Indepth and SF for DB

69. Database Performance Infrastructure Rapid system growth
Factors Affecting Performance
Infrastructure
Rapid system growth
Hardware platform constraints
Stagnant storage configuration
Availability vs. Performance trade-offs
Upgraded systems with legacy defaults settings
Infrastructure not designed for performance
Every upgrade creates legacy baggage affecting performance
Defaults are set to correct problems that do not exist in following releases
The underlying hardware maybe creating performance bottlenecks
Storage configurations once configured maybe hard to tune while environment is in production
Rapid system growth, where getting it up and running is more important than getting it running at peak performance
Companies allocate more scares resources towards keeping the system available at the expenses or performance tuning

70. Database Performance Solutions
VERTITAS solutions set
Detect, Diagnose and Correct current implementation
Delivers the most cost effective solution for the current environment.
Rebuild the infrastructure
Delivers the best solution for future growth and scaleable performance
Convert to Quick I/O performance enhanced VxFS
Enables raw performance with file system manageability
Implement Software RAID
Real-time reconfigure of disk systems for improved performance
Implement Load Balancing
Remove Storage Access bottleneck
Detect, Diagnose and Correct SF for Database environments
Delivers optimum performance solution today and enables seamless performance scalability growth into the future

71. Indepth for Databases: Detect, Diagnose and Correct Application Performance
Supports Unix File Systems
Supports Raw I/O
Supports major arrays
Application Performance Focus
Optimum systems configuration
Storage Mapping
With revenues in excess of $1.5BN annually, VERITAS is the largest storage software company in the world. VERITAS employs 5700 people in 36 countries around the world and has record a compound annual growth rate of 54% in the last 5 years. 86% of the Fortune 500 run VERITAS Software.

72. Storage Foundation for Database: Performance with Manageability
Raw I/O Performance
Fast Recoverability from outages
Efficient Backups and restores
High Availability Solutions
On-line storage configuration
With revenues in excess of $1.5BN annually, VERITAS is the largest storage software company in the world. VERITAS employs 5700 people in 36 countries around the world and has record a compound annual growth rate of 54% in the last 5 years. 86% of the Fortune 500 run VERITAS Software.

73. Optimum Database Application Performance Optimum Performance
Storage Foundation for Database
Indepth for
Databases
Prioritize Time
DBA Tool set
Drill-down in time
I/O Load Balancing
Optimum Buffer Cache
Storage Mapping
Off Host processing
Expert Indexing
Software stripping
Array specific tools
I/O Accelerators
Log Settings
Application
Performance
Optimization
Database
Performance
Infrastructure

74. Product Positioning IT Situation Product Recommended Solution
Increase DB Application Performance
Indepth
Analyze application and modify index and tablespaces
Increase DB System Performance
Modify log and kernel setting
Increase DB Storage Performance
Indepth,
SF for DB
Hardware Array reconfiguration
Software Array reconfiguration
Increase DB Availability
Cluster nodes, load balance I/O channels and replace failed disks
Increase DB I/O Performance
Achieve raw I/O performance with files system manageability
Decrease DB time to Recovery
Recovery dropped tables or full backups from disk.
Efficiently manager DB Backup Window
Backup only changed blocks and off-host backups.
Key take always
Optimum performance with manageability.
Mission Critical means Availability and Database Editions has a number of options
Accidents happen and Database Editions has a number of options to recover your production environment
Need more production from your production environment,
Need more time for backups, and other maintenance activities, Database Editions has a number of options move these production cycles consuming activities off host.
Database Editions wants to eliminate the term, backup window and VERITAS will show you a couple techniques.
One stop shopping, it all works together seamlessly.

75. Database Performance Scenarios
SF for DB
Indepth
Performance monitoring of database & server x
Real time Storage Mapping down to disk
Historical trend analysis Storage Mapping down to disk
Tuning for native files system and raw configurations
Achieve Raw I/O performance using files system
Enable Channel load balancing (DMP)
Enable on-line RAID reconfiguration (VxDBA)
Recommends Hardware RAID reconfiguration

76. Database Availability
SF for DB
Indepth
Monitor availability of database & server x
Availability solutions for server, storage and channels
Optimum Site Outage and/or Disaster availability solutions
Create database clones remotely
Create alternate data paths to SAN
Maintain backups of database on disk
Create checkpoints of database
Create snapshot of database
DBAs need to maintain optimum database performance as:
Data volume and number of users grow.
Diverse database configurations (standalone, local failover, replicated databases, etc.) become more complex
DBA’s also have to add to their task, Resource Management has become more import. They are not getting newer equipment, software upgrades or more bodies, but are asked to do more with a lot less. VERITAS can help them.
From the top down, IT staff is put under the microscope of Service Level agreements, SLAs. IT needs to maintain the optimum infrastructure where backups and heterogeneous storage don’t disrupt database operations. They are told, do everything, keep it up, keep it available and if something goes wrong, get it back up , PDQ.

77. Database Recovery Recoverability x Single Instance
SF for DB
Indepth
Dynamic procedures for failing over to multiple nodes x
Recovery solution for server and storage
Recovery solution for failed disks
Recovering from failed database upgrade
Recover from failed channel to SAN connectivity
Recover from specific corrupted data blocks errors
Recover from point in time procedural errors, such as dropped table
Remote and Local disaster recovery solutions
The four quadrants of the Storage foundations
The upper quadrants contain storage management solutions specifically for database intensive performance environments.
The upper left quadrant identifies the Database Editions compartment represents the single instance and HA I/O performance solutions.
The upper right quadrant represents the DBED for AC solutions for customers who require very fast failover and multiple parallel instances.
The lower left quadrants represents flat file environment solutions or non high I/O performance database environments and represents the single instance of Foundation Suite, which consists of VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Files System.
The lower right quadrant contains the SANpoint Foundations solutions for customers who require a SAN based clustered file system.
The HA option enables high availability failover of servers in the DBE, Foundation and clustered file system environment
Single Instance
Clustered File System

78. Recommend Solution Summary
Customer Situation
Product
Performance issues:
Running on native files system or raw portions
Indepth
New implementation and performance issues: running on VxFS
SF for DB
Requires optimum long term performance solution
Indepth and SF for DB
System uptime requirement
SF for DB/HA
Disaster and/or Site Recovery outage recovery requirement
Manage multiple databases on multiple OS platforms
Strict database recovery requirements

79. SF for Advance CLusters IO Fencing

80. Understanding Split Brain
Split Brain can cause database corruption
One node must survive, the other must be shutdown
VERITAS I/O Fencing handles all scenarios
Why do you want to protect against a split brain scenario?
Because an unprotected split brain will corrupt the Oracle RAC database and force you to restore from backups
Split brain occurs when the nodes can’t talk to each other (the internode links all fail) and they both think they are the only surviving member of the cluster. If the nodes in the cluster have uncoordinated access to storage they will overwrite each other’s data (data corruption occurs)
In order to prevent this corruption one node must shutdown
The next two slides explain VRTS IO Fencing with an example
Network failure or system failure? System failure or system hang?

81. I/O Fencing: How Does it Work1
Eject departed node from coordinator disks 2
Ejected node can not write to disks 4
Eject departed node from data disks 3
The links fail and a split brain is introduced
The DBE/AC software on both nodes will race for control of the coordinator disks
The winner of the race ejects the other nodes with the SCSI 3 PGR commands
The winner then ejects the other node from the data disks
The ejected node can not write to the disks anymore, VCS detects the IO failures and shutsdown the right hand node
The split brain is avoided

82. Competitive State of Affairs
Oracle9i RAC is not a complete solution on Unix
On HP-UX, RAC requires SF for AC or ServiceGuard
On Solaris, RAC requires SF for AC or Sun Cluster
On AIX, RAC requires SF for AC * or HACMP
On Linux, Oracle does ship a complete solution
Including clusterware
Including Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS)
Including Oracle watchdog timer for split-brain protection
SF for AC for Linux will replace these Oracle components
* SF for AC for AIX planned Q3 04

83. Selling SF for AC on HP-UX
HP can support Oracle9i RAC with ServiceGuard
“OPS Edition” of ServiceGuard is required with RAC
HP partnered with VERITAS to bring SF for AC to HP-UX
We have a Cluster File System
HP doesn’t want to lose to a Sun Server with SF for AC solution
Joint engineering and testing
Example: HP change the HP-UX SCSI driver for SF for AC
Joint marketing
Example: Joint presentations at Vision and HP World (on VNET!)
Rules of Engagement for Sales
Executive support for top customers

84. Selling DBE/AC on HP-UX
HP Sales may still push ServiceGuard
Account control
They get comp’d on ServiceGuard
ServiceGuard has no CFS
HP is porting the TruCluster CFS to HP-UX
The Truth: It won’t be ready soon (Q6 2004?)
It’s a really tough job
Are the TruCluster engineers still there?
Many other major kernel changes (move from PA-RISC to IA-64)
Must have backward compatibility with ServiceGuard
HP may pitch HyperFabric
Expensive, proprietary interconnect

85. ServiceGuard on HP-UX VERITAS CVM versus HP clusterized SLVM
VERITAS CVM has flexible disk groups, add disks online
HP can not add nodes to the cluster online
HP may recommend our CVM with ServiceGuard
Sell the value of CFS!
Competitive Pricing – high end servers
ServiceGuard per processor price $1,989
Additional per process price for “OPS Edition” $2,600
Mirror Disk UX is option to HP’s VM $1,000
Large discounts on SW with expensive HW (~50%)

86. Sun Cluster on Solaris They have no CFS !
Oracle will NOT certify Sun’s GFS (It is a proxy file system)
Sun OEMs VERITAS CVM or they run with none!
Sell CFS! Get the latest version of CVM
The interconnect
Latency just isn’t that relevant
Know the “RSM” term and why it isn’t that critical
SCI = BetaMax Wildcat = SuperComputing ($$$, 6800+, IO bay)
Leverage our installed base (SFDB, VCS, Foundations)
Sun’s Pricing (Free SW, Expensive HW)
Sell cross platform, are they considering AIX, HP-UX, or Linux?

87. Thank You
Thank you…. And then tell them about additional resources (white papers..etc. veritas.com)