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EMC VIRTUAL

INFRASTRUCTUREFOR ORACLE 11g

Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAXand VMware vSphere


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EMC Proven Solutions

Advanced Solutions

Proven Solutions

Product Combinations

Product

Build/ManageServices

Consulting Services

L

EVELOFCUSTO

MIZATION

DEGREE OF INTEGRATION


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Voice of the Customer Drives EMC Action

Measurethe voice of the customerand operational metrics

Analyzefor continuousimprovements and bestpractices

Improveby creating and driving actionplans

Controlby monitoring andcommunicating results to fieldand customers


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Business Challenge

Separate infrastructures lead tohigher costs, lower ROI onassets, and increasedenvironment complexity

Lower server and storageutilization

Difficulty meeting servicelevels

Maintaining and managingseparate environments

Provisioning inefficiencies

Inconsistent data protectionstrategies

Separate infrastructure

Oracle9i Oracle10g Oracle11g


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Why Run Oracle Databases onSymmetrix VMAX with VMware vSphere?

Match native performance even in consolidationscenarios

95%+ Oracle instances match native performance onVMware

Performance

Reduce hardware costs Consolidate serversDB Consolidation

Provision databases on demand Minutes to provision

DB On Demand

Increase application quality of service Scale dynamically

Built-in high availability and simple disaster recovery

Quality of Service


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Hardware and Software ComponentsEMC Symmetrix VMAX Brocade 5100 Dell PowerEdge R710

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Storage, 300 GB 15Kdrives; 1 TB SATAdrives; 64 GB mirroredcache

2

SAN switches.4 Gb capable FC

2

2 x Xeon X5570processor, 2.93 GHz, 8MB 144 GB RAM with two146 GB SAS internaldrives

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 11gRelease 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-basedutility

EMC Symmetrix ManagementConsole

7.0 Configures and manages Symmetrix arrays


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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 VMwarestored 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 pathmanagementcapabilities

Advanced

multipathing Dynamic load-

balancing

Automatic

failover

PowerPath/VEPSA Plugin



EMC Storage Viewer for vSphere Client

EMC Storage tab

EMC storage-specificinformation

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 VirtualLUN


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Comparison between VMware RDM andVMFS for Oracle 11gDatabases

Transactions per minute ESX server CPU

utilization

Database transactionsresponse 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

1DataDatastore

588 Contains all database DATA devices

2 FRA Datastore 98 Contains all database FRA devices

3REDODatastore

98Contains all database REDOdevices

4TEMPDatastore

98Contains all database EMP/UNDOdevices

Disk Performance

VMFS RDM

40,000

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

0

KBps

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

Minutes



VMotion Testing with Oracle 11gDatabase

Impact of VMotionmigration on usertransactions

ESX server CPUutilization

Documented migrationsteps

Under load, CPU usageincreased on the

primary ESX serverduring migration



VMware HA Testing with Oracle 11g

Physical server failureautomatic failover

Automated Oracledatabase startup andavailability

Documented recoverysteps

Time from init 0 commandto database startup4minutes 20 seconds

Time from ESX servershutdown to Oracledatabase startup2minutes



EMC Symmetrix VMAX Virtual LUNTechnology

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 costserver 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 physicalinfrastructure

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

Server

Consolidation

Application

Deployment



Conclusions

High availabilityreducing data centerdowntime with VMware VMotion andVMware HA VMotion: Planned downtimeeliminate or

greatly reduce at lower cost

HA: Unplanned downtimereduce byimplementing HA across the virtualizedcluster

Storage efficienciesincreased 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

High

Availability

Storage

Efficiencies


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