EMC VIRTUAL

INFRASTRUCTURE
FOR ORACLE 11g
Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAX
and VMware vSphere

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LEVEL OF CUSTOMIZATION

EMC Proven Solutions

Consulting Services

Advanced Solutions
Build/Manage
Services
Proven Solutions

Product Combinations
Product
DEGREE OF INTEGRATION

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Voice of the Customer Drives EMC Action

Control

by monitoring and
communicating results to field
and customers

Improve
by creating and driving action
plans

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Measure

the voice of the customer

and operational metrics

Analyze
for continuous
improvements and best
practices

Business Challenge
Separate infrastructure

Separate infrastructures lead to

higher costs, lower ROI on
assets, and increased
environment complexity
Oracle9i

Oracle10g

Oracle11g

Lower server and storage

utilization

Difficulty meeting service

levels
Maintaining and managing
separate environments
Provisioning inefficiencies
Inconsistent data protection
strategies

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Why Run Oracle Databases on

Symmetrix VMAX with VMware vSphere?
Performance

DB Consolidation

DB On Demand

Quality of Service

Match native performance even in consolidation

scenarios
95%+ Oracle instances match native performance on
VMware

Reduce hardware costs

Consolidate servers

Provision databases on demand

Minutes to provision

Increase application quality of service

Scale dynamically
Built-in high availability and simple disaster recovery

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EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Oracle 11g

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Hardware and Software Components

EMC Symmetrix VMAX

Brocade 5100

Dell PowerEdge R710

Storage, 300 GB 15K

drives; 1 TB SATA
drives; 64 GB mirrored
cache

SAN switches.
4 Gb capable FC

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

7.0

Symmetrix Command Line Interface host-based

utility

EMC Symmetrix Management

Console

7.0

Configures and manages Symmetrix arrays

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EMC SymmetrixThe Worlds Most

Trusted Storage Platform
#1 in high-end external RAID (IDC, March 2009*)
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
* EMC analysis based on IDC product-line estimates

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Industrys most comprehensive Proven

Solutions

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

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PowerPath/VE for vSphere

Enhanced path
management
capabilities

PowerPath/VE
PSA Plugin

Advanced
multipathing
Dynamic loadbalancing
Automatic
failover

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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

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Use Case Testing

VMware Converter P2V
VMware RDM vs. VMFS
comparison
VMware VMotion
VMware High Availability
(HA)

Symmetrix VMAX Virtual

LUN

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VMware vCenter Converter

Physical-to-virtual migrations
Live migrations by using hot
cloning
Offline migrations by using
cold cloning

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Comparison between VMware RDM and

VMFS for Oracle 11g Databases
Transactions per minute

Datastore Type

Size (GB)

Description

ESX server CPU

utilization

Data
Datastore

588

Contains all database DATA devices

FRA Datastore

98

Contains all database FRA devices

Database transactions
response times

REDO
Datastore

98

Contains all database REDO

devices

4
1

LUN
TEMPNumber
Datastore
LUN 1

Size (GB)
98
50

Datafile
Type
Contains
all database EMP/UNDO
devices
Contains DATA device 1

LUN 2

50

Contains DATA device 2

LUN 3

50

Contains DATA device 3

LUN 4

50

Contains DATA device 4

LUN5

50

Contains DATA device 5

LUN6

50

Contains DATA device 6

LUN7

50

Contains DATA device 7

LUN8

50

Contains DATA device 8

LUN9

50

Contains DATA device 9

10

LUN10

50

Contains DATA device 10

11

LUN11

50

Contains DATA device 11

12

LUN12

50

Contains DATA device 12

13

LUN13

50

Contains FRA device 1

Disk Performance

40,000
35,000
30,000
KBps

25,000
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
0

10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

VMFS

RDM

Minutes

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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

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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 startup4
minutes 20 seconds
Time from ESX server
shutdown to Oracle
database startup2
minutes

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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

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

Server
Consolidation

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

Application
Deployment

Quickly convert from physical to virtual

infrastructure using:
VMware vCenter Converter
EMC SAN management tools

Decouple application/database from physical

infrastructure

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Conclusions
Continued

High
Availability

Storage
Efficiencies

High availabilityreducing data center

downtime with VMware VMotion and
VMware HA
VMotion: Planned downtimeeliminate or
greatly reduce at lower cost
HA: Unplanned downtimereduce by
implementing HA across the virtualized
cluster

Storage efficienciesincreased flexibility

Concise building block approach to storage
design
Outlined:

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

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