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EMC VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ORACLE 11gEnabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAXand VMware vSphere


EMC Proven Solutions

Advanced Solutions

Proven Solutions

Product Combinations

Product

Build/Manage Services

Consulting Services

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Voice of the Customer Drives EMC Action

Measurethe voice of the customerand operational metrics

Analyzefor continuous improvements and best practices

Improveby creating and driving action plans

Controlby monitoring and communicating results to field and customers


Business Challenge

Separate infrastructures lead to higher costs, lower ROI on assets, and increased environment complexity

• Lower server and storage utilization

• Difficulty meeting service levels– Maintaining and managing

separate environments– Provisioning inefficiencies– Inconsistent data protection

strategies

Separate infrastructure

Oracle9i Oracle10g Oracle11g


Why Run Oracle Databases on Symmetrix VMAX with VMware vSphere?

Match native performance even in consolidation scenarios

95%+ Oracle instances match native performance on VMware

PerformancePerformance

Reduce hardware costs Consolidate servers

DB ConsolidationDB Consolidation

Provision databases on demand Minutes to provision

DB On DemandDB On Demand

Increase application quality of service Scale dynamically Built-in high availability and simple disaster recovery

Quality of ServiceQuality of Service


EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Oracle 11g


Hardware and Software ComponentsEMC Symmetrix VMAX Brocade 5100 Dell PowerEdge R710

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Storage, 300 GB 15K drives; 1 TB SATA drives; 64 GB mirrored cache

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SAN switches. 4 Gb capable FC

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2 x Xeon X5570 processor, 2.93 GHz, 8 MB 144 GB RAM with two 146 GB SAS internal drives

Software Version Comment

Red Hat 5.1 (64-bit) Operating system for database servers

VMware vSphere 4.0 Suite of virtualization software

VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 Plug-in for physical-to-virtual migration

Oracle Database/Cluster/ASM 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0) Database/cluster software/volume management

Swingbench 2.3 Load generator and benchmark tool

Enginuity 5874 Symmetrix storage array OS

EMC Storage Viewer 2.0 Discovery tool for vSphere

EMC ControlCenter 6.1 UB5 Storage resource management software

EMC PowerPath 5.4 Multi-pathing software

Solutions Enabler 7.0Symmetrix Command Line Interface host-based utility

EMC Symmetrix Management Console

7.0 Configures and manages Symmetrix arrays


EMC Symmetrix—The World’s Most Trusted Storage Platform

• Tiered storage optimization– Fully automated storage tiering,

mobility, and management capabilities

• Lowest total cost of ownership– Reduce costs and deliver higher

service levels via scale-out and tiering

• Information availability– Most advanced and widely deployed

business continuity platform

• Simplified management and operations– Simplified storage allocation, resource

management, and tiering

• Application integration– Industry’s most comprehensive Proven

Solutions

#1 in high-end external RAID (IDC, March 2009*)

* EMC analysis based on IDC product-line estimates


EMC Symmetrix Value with VMware Consolidation for VMware-stored data with Symmetrix

– Nondisruptive, transparent movement of data between tiers – Provides common management layer across all VMware resources– Single processes for each activity consistently applied across VMware

stored data

Symmetrix business continuity and disaster restart– EMC TimeFinder local replication point-in-time operations– EMC SRDF remote replication of business- and mission-critical data– EMC Open Replicator for Symmetrix for data vaulting and/or data migration

EMC Storage Viewer Plug-in for VMware vCenter Server– Provides integrated view of storage in virtual environment– Storage array discovery from a VMware environment– Display path management information

E-Lab proven– Significant investment in ensuring Symmetrix interoperability with VMware

ESX server and vSphere


PowerPath/VE for vSphere Enhanced path

management capabilities

Advanced multipathing

Dynamic load-balancing

Automaticfailover

PowerPath/VEPSA Plugin


EMC Storage Viewer for vSphere Client EMC Storage tab

EMC storage-specific information

Datastores holding virtual disk

LUNs presented views

Storage mapping

SCSI targets

Type of storage

Array type


Use Case Testing VMware Converter P2V

VMware RDM vs. VMFS comparison

VMware VMotion

VMware High Availability (HA)

Symmetrix VMAX Virtual LUN


VMware vCenter Converter Physical-to-virtual migrations

Live migrations by using hot cloning

Offline migrations by using cold cloning


Comparison between VMware RDM and VMFS for Oracle 11g Databases Transactions per minute

ESX server CPU utilization

Database transactions response times LUN Number

Size (GB)

Datafile Type

1 LUN 1 50 Contains DATA device 1




5 LUN5 50 Contains DATA device 5








13 LUN13 50 Contains FRA device 1

Datastore Type

Size (GB)

Description

1Data Datastore

588 Contains all database DATA devices

2 FRA Datastore 98 Contains all database FRA devices

3REDO Datastore

98Contains all database REDO devices

4TEMP Datastore

98Contains all database EMP/UNDO devices

Disk Performance

VMFS RDM

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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

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VMotion Testing with Oracle 11g Database Impact of VMotion

migration on user transactions

ESX server CPU utilization

Documented migration steps

Under load, CPU usage increased on the primary ESX server during migration


VMware HA Testing with Oracle 11g Physical server failure—

automatic failover

Automated Oracle database startup and availability

Documented recovery steps

Time from init 0 command to database startup—4 minutes 20 seconds

Time from ESX server shutdown to Oracle database startup—2 minutes


EMC Symmetrix VMAX Virtual LUN Technology

LUN migration wizard simplifies the setup for migrations– Allows users seamlessly migrate Oracle database data between LUNs

within the array– Virtual LUN migrations take place within the storage array

Configuration– 18 LUNs were allocated to the virtual machine– Nondisruptively moves storage from RAID 1 to RAID 6


Conclusions

Reduction of cost—server consolidation– Multiple Oracle database environments

consolidated into a two-node VMware cluster– Optimization of hardware means decreased

hardware power, cooling, and licensing costs

Ease of application deployment– Quickly convert from physical to virtual

infrastructure using:▪ VMware vCenter Converter▪ EMC SAN management tools

– Decouple application/database from physical infrastructure

What did the use case illustrate and how can it help you?

ServerConsolidation

ApplicationDeployment


Conclusions High availability—reducing data center

downtime with VMware VMotion and VMware HA

– VMotion: Planned downtime—eliminate or greatly reduce at lower cost

– HA: Unplanned downtime—reduce by implementing HA across the virtualized cluster

Storage efficiencies—increased flexibility– Concise building block approach to storage

design– Outlined:

▪ Number of spindles▪ RAID types▪ Volume management options such as RDM and VMFS▪ How to implement RAID group layout and LUN sizes

Continued

HighAvailability

StorageEfficiencies

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