Best Practices for
Virtualizing Oracle with
EMC and VMware
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Today’s Choices in Cloud Computing
Über-cloud
Verticalization
Virtualization
Applications
Applications
Middleware
Middleware
Database
Database
Operating
System
Operating
System
Server
Virtual Infrastructure
Storage
CPU
Pool
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Storage
Pool
Network
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The Journey to The Cloud
Reasons Oracle Customers Virtualize
Cross-Application
Consolidate
x86
Servers
Enhance
Data
Mobility
IT Production
Business Production Active-Active
IT-As-A-Service
use of
Increase
Utilization
And
High
Availability
Lower Costs
Improve Quality Of Service
Improve Agility
Infrastructure
% Virtualized
85%
95%
50%
30%
15%
Platinum
Gold
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Top Oracle Customer Challenges
More Performance
and Utilization
Faster Provisioning
Enhanced High
Availability
Solutions Tailored
to Your Business
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Increase Oracle performance up to 44% with lower TCO
95%+ Oracle instances match native performance on VMware
Increase server and storage utilization up to 80%
Consolidate servers by 4x – 20x
Deploy and manage more instances with less effort
50-70% faster deployment with 90% less App downtime
Improve dev/test/QA; new application
deployments/migrations
Improved backups / Application-aware disaster recovery
Backup with less downtime, less storage and faster recovery
Recover to application-consistent point in time
Virtual Infrastructure vs. Vertical Appliances
EMC Virtualization Assessment for Oracle
EMC, Oracle Technology Centers and EMC Global IT experts
(House of Brick Consulting??)
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More Performance and
Utilization
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Oracle Performance and Utilization
Challenges
Targeting the performance you really need vs. “extreme
performance” to avoid excessive cost
Oracle workloads will change over time requiring
adjustment and tuning
Traditional “one workload, one box” approach
leads to over-provisioning of servers
Physical storage provisioning creates underutilization of
capacity and impedes database performance
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Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) VPNEW
Q4 ’10
Traditional
FAST
THIN PROVISIONING
(Volume/LUN level)
Flash–10%
Fibre
Channel–40%
SATA–50%
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FAST VP
(Sub-LUN)
Configure storage
80% faster without
Flash–10%
downtime
Scale Oracle
performance while
increasing
SATA–90%
utilization
Reclaim 50% unused capacity with
ASM Storage
Reclaim Utility
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VMware vSphere and ESX Server
• Increase Oracle x86 server
utilization from 10-15% up to 80%
with vSphere
– Run multiple Oracle workloads on same
hardware
– Convert physical machines to virtual
machines without downtime
• Reduce hardware requirements by
up to 90% with VMware ESX
– Each instance of VMware ESX can
support more than 100 VMs
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Single VM Performance: Oracle Database OLTP Workload †
Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series based 8-pCPU server
RHEL 5.1
Oracle 11gR1
< 15% overhead for 8 vCPU VM
Transaction Rate (Ratio to 1-way VM)
In-house ESX Server
8,900 total DB transactions per second
Near-linear scalability from 1 to 8 vCPUs
60,000 I/O operations/second
†
A fair-use implementation of the
TPC-C workload; results are not
TPC-C compliant
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Oracle Support for VMware
• Oracle MyOracleSupport (Metalink) 249212.1 defines Oracle’s VMware
support policy most broadly
• Support facts:
– Oracle RAC included for 11.2.0.2 and above (Updated Nov 8,2010)
– Oracle will accept SRs on VMware for bugs already known to Oracle
– Oracle may accept SRs on VMware for bugs that are not seen by Oracle as
being caused by virtualization
– Oracle maintains (as do most ISVs) the right to require physical reproduction if
they suspect VMware is “at fault”
• VMware's technology partner EMC and system integrator House of Brick
have support statements for Oracle on VMware:
– http://www.emc.com/solutions/application-environment/oracle/oraclevirtualization-vmware.htm
– www.houseofbrick.com/oracle-on-vmware
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Aligning DBAs and Infrastructure Management
EMC, VMware simplify
management for Oracle
Oracle Software Layer
Oracle AWR Reports
End-to-end visibility
and control of
virtual infrastructure
Virtual Servers
Simplify monitoring,
tuning and reporting
Virtual Infrastructure
Layer
EMC <-> VMware Plug-ins
Thin Devices
Thin Pool
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Oracle AWR reports
provide before-andafter performance
analysis
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NEW
Oracle Use Case: EMC Symmetrix FAST VP with VMware
Q1 ’11
Virtualized Infrastructure
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•
•
•
EMC Symmetrix VMAX
FAST VP for high performance at lowest cost
Oracle RAC and ASM over FCP
Tiered Storage: 128 x 200GB 15k FC Drives; 28 x 2
TB 7,200 rpm SATA; 8 x 200 GB EFD drives
• EMC Control Center
• VMware vSphere and vCenter
EMC Symmetrix VMAX
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Oracle Software
• Oracle E-Business Suite R12
• Oracle Application Server 10.1
• Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition
• Real Application Clusters (RAC) and ASM
• RHEL 5.1
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Documented Best Practices
44% More Oracle TPM and 30% lower cost
• Setup test of multiple 400 Oracle user sessions with OLTP test suite
• Deployed FAST VP and tested physical Oracle RAC performance at
scale
• Performed non-disruptive physical-to-virtual migration of Oracle RAC
• Ran same tests on virtualized Oracle RAC scaling to 8 VMs
• Response times within 10% of physical, with more performance, less
cost
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Faster Provisioning
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Oracle Provisioning Challenges
Time to provision new Oracle environments (Apps,
Middleware, Database) and infrastructure
Minimizing Oracle production application downtime
during dev/test/QA process
Time required in recreating copies in the event of
test failure
Managing this process at scale in large, multi
database Oracle environments
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EMC Replication Manager
Replicate with 90% Less Downtime
Speed and Automation
 Replicate Oracle in minutes vs. hours / days
ORACLE-AWARE SNAPS / CLONES
 Auto-discovery of Oracle, replication technology,
VMware datastores (VMFS [Virtual Machine File
System]/NFS), virtual machines
Oracle
production
Oracle
copy
 OAUG “Innovator of Year Award” 2009
Oracle
dev/test
Oracle
copy
Oracle
Backup
Oracle
copy
Application consistency
 Understands how to place applications into proper
state for application-consistent replicas
 Oracle RMAN Hot backup for Oracle
Replication Manager Administrator
Power Database Administrator
Database Administrator
Instant restore
 Application-consistent replicas of Oracle running on
VMware virtual machines VMFS or NFS datastores
containing virtual machines
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Power User
USER ROLE
PRIVILEGES
 VMware snapshots for VMFS and NFS datastores
HIGHEST
Operator
LOWEST
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Deploying Virtual Machines with
Templates
• Centralized VM management
across heterogeneous x86
operating environments
vSphere Client
– Linux, Windows
• Accelerate provisioning time
50-70% with VM Templates
Deploy Template wizard
– Eliminate repetitive configuration
and installation steps across
Application, Middleware and
Database tiers
– Combine with EMC replication to
provision complete environment
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Use Case: EMC Unified Storage with VMware
NEW
Q1 ’11
Virtualized Infrastructure
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•
•
•
•
Oracle RAC and ASM over FCP
Oracle App Server and Appl_TOP over NFS
6GB 10k SAS Drives
VMware vSphere and vCenter
VM Templates on App Server and Database
Tiers
• VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration
NAS
FC SAN
EMC VNX
Unified Storage
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Oracle Software
• Oracle E-Business Suite R12
• Oracle Application Server 10.1
• Oracle Database 11g R2 Enterprise Edition
• Real Application Clusters (RAC) and ASM
• 200 GB Database
• RHEL 5.1
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Use Case: Rapid Provisioning of Complete
Environment
vSphere Client
EMC Replication Manager
Oracle EBS Copies
Production
Clone
Oracle
Snapshot
Oracle
Snapshot
Oracle
Snapshot
Deploy Template wizard
• Virtual machine name
• Virtual machine location
• Pre-created Custom Specification
(defines network configuration for machine)
• All 10 virtual machines deployed
in less than 10 minutes
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Documented Best Practices
Deploy up to 10 Oracle VMs in 10 Minutes
• Configured Oracle EBS Application shared file system and ASM
• Configured VMware vSphere and create virtual machines
• Deploying templates across Oracle Application and Database tier
nodes
• Deploy Oracle EBS across shared file system using RAC and ASM
• Perform functional test of application tier and add app server nodes
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Enhanced High Availability
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Oracle High Availability Challenges
Backup, recovery can become time
consuming
and costly as Oracle environments scale
Oracle software alone limited as complete
disaster recovery solution for applications
Traditional physical disaster recovery
infrastructure remains idle and limits
application
mobility
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Enhanced Oracle Backup and Recovery
Control Tier
Ex: 84-92% Less Storage in 5 weeks
Backup and Archive
Applications
Target Tier
CIFS, NFS,
NDMP, OpenStorage
Ethernet
Virtual Tape
Library (VTL) over
Fibre Channel
DD880 appliance
Retain longer
Direct target for Oracle
RMAN and Oracle
Secure Backup as well
as enterprise backup
software
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Store weeks or months of full backups with 10-30x less disk
Perform Oracle full backups to disk, reducing tape dependence
Replicate smarter
Move only de-duplicated data over existing networks with up to 99%
bandwidth efficiency for cost-effective disaster recovery
Recover reliably
Recover from full backups vs. incremental reducing complexity
Checksum and re-checksum ensures data blocks readable and correct
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Complete Oracle Disaster Recovery
EMC RecoverPoint
WAN
SAN
SAN
RecoverPoint
Appliance
RecoverPoint
Appliance
Oracle Applications
Oracle Middleware
Recovery
Journal
Local
Oracle Database
History
Journal
Remote
Benefits
Track every Oracle write without application performance impact
Remotely replicate with compression reduces bandwidth up to
90%
Multiple modes (hot/cold application consistent or crash
consistent)
Integrates with Oracle Data Guard for complete protection
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Integration with VMware vCenter Site
Recovery Manager (SRM)
Heterogeneous, network-based replication
Production
vCenter
Disaster Recovery
SRM
SRM
vCenter
Virtual Machines
Virtual Machines
VMware Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure
Servers
Servers
Heterogeneous Storage
Heterogeneous Storage
EMC RecoverPoint
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• Uses RecoverPoint
replica image to test
disaster recovery
failover
• Provides on-demand
failover of a selected
subset or all virtual
machines
• Automates failback
with vCenter Server
plug-in for
RecoverPoint
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Active-Active High Availability with
VPLEX
EMC VPLEX Local
EMC VPLEX Value to Oracle
Environments
Seamless Oracle application
mobility - Supports the movement
of VMs up to 17x faster without
downtime
EMC VPLEX Metro
Active-active data over
distance - Increases utilization of
passive DR assets up to 50%
Migrations and tech refresh Removes any application downtime
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Solutions Tailored to Your
Business
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Summary: Oracle on EMC, VMware
Gain Everything, Sacrifice Nothing
• Optimized performance and utilization
– 45% more TPM with reduce cost through FAST VP
– Scale 50% more users using same physical capacity with FAST
VP
– Up to 90% less hardware consumption through virtualization
• Up to 90% more efficiency for Oracle environments
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80% faster storage provisioning with FAST VP and VMware
90% less downtime during replication (dev/test/backup/D/R)
84%+ less storage for Oracle RMAN backups
90% less bandwidth for remote-site application recovery
Active-active high availability increases use of D/R assets 50%
– Virtualize Oracle at best pace for your business
– Extensively tested joint best practices and Solutions
– Full support for Oracle production (including RAC)
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Where is a good place to start?
Virtualization Readiness Assessment for Oracle
Create the Optimal Virtualization Approach for Your Oracle Applications
Approach
•Assess the business and service level requirements
•Identify Oracle application, server, and database
dependencies
•Capture and review business transactions for CPU,
memory, disk, and network during peak and non-peak loads
•Review Oracle disk group layout and recommended
appropriate virtual environment
•Review HA requirements and recommend solutions
•Analyze physical performance and estimate virtual
resources required
Results
•Detailed assessment of your Oracle environment and its
ability to meet readiness criteria
•Recommendations for virtualization of your environment
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Resources
Note: will add
some graphics
here
• Documented reference architectures and
configuration guides
• Oracle Technology Centers (Atlanta, GA; Reston,
VA)
• EMC Solution Centers (Hopkinton, MA; Santa
Clara, CA; Cork, Ireland)
• EMC Global IT Experts available to talk to
customers
www.emc.com/oraclesolutions
www.emc.com/virtualizingoracle
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Q&A
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THANK YOU
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