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Simple
Reliable
Affordable

Oracle Database Appliance X4-2

Name, Title
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Oracle Engineered Systems

Fastest Deployment. Lowest Cost. Extreme Performance.

Growing Business Critical Services and Data

High Availability Solutions Desirable

Costly and Complex

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Specific Skills
Required

Risk of Failure

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Installation
Expertise

Time

Optimization
Expertise

Network
Administration

SAVINGS

Storage
Administration
System
Administration

Build Your Own

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Oracle Appliance
Manager

Cost

Simple to Install, Manage and Maintain

Rapidly Deploy A Database Cluster

Simple to Install

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Oracle Appliance Manager

Simple to Manage and Maintain

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Interactive One
Business
Premier social media site built to connect, inform,
entertain, and inspire the entire Black community

Benefits
Better DB
Easier
Patching Performance

Objectives
Social networking app must be available 24x7
Hardware refresh to update old systems
Risk of no domain expert to build complex - SAN and
RAC config.
Pre-ODA

Decreased
Complexity

Easy, Fast
Setup

After Oracle Database Appliance

Solution
I/O performance improved key advantage of ODA
Decreased complexity eliminated need for SAN
experts
One database, multiple schemas instead of 6
databases
Planned+unplanned outages reduced from 30 hours to
20 minutes/yr

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3PAR Storage
Two Full Racks! 6 databases
84U, 50 amps

8U, 20 amps 50% reduction

in Power, 2 databases

Building reliable systems is difficult for many database professionals:

42% experience challenges meeting database SLAs
66% have had to work overnight due to a database emergency
Crimson Consulting Online Web Survey Dec 2012

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Built-In Reliability
Hardware

Software

Two dual-socket Oracle Linux

servers
Redundant 10GB interconnect

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise

Edition

Double-mirroring or triple-mirroring
storage redundancy
Redundant hot-swappable power,
cooling, and fans

Real Application Clusters

RAC One Node

Single Instance

Oracle Grid Infrastructure

-

Automatic Storage Management

Oracle Clusterware

Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

Oracle Appliance Manager

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Oracle Database Appliance X4-2

Base Configuration

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Two Servers, each contain

24 CPU cores

256 GB memory

600 GB mirrored boot disks

Redundant 10GB interconnect

External 10GBase-T networking

Storage Shelf 24 disks

800 GB SSD

18 TB HDD

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ODA X4-2 Storage Expansion Shelf

Zero-Admin/Online Storage Expansion
Double Available Storage Capacity
Additional 18 TB HDD, 36 TB total
Additional 800GB SSD, 1.6TB total

Zero Administration
Automatically integrates when plugged in
Data automatically distributes to new shelf

Online Expand Storage

Hot-plug storage expansion shelf
No database downtime

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Best in Class Availability

Active Active

Active Passive

Single Instance

Best Availability

Better Availability

Good Availability

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Database 11g

Enterprise Edition
Oracle Real

Application Clusters
Mutual failover and

load balancing

Enterprise Edition
Oracle Real

Application Clusters
One Node
Can have mutual

failover

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Enterprise Edition

Support Application Workloads Through

Virtualization
Utilization of the full ODA capacity regardless of database core

usage
Efficient sharing of the platform with one or more applications

Capacity-on-demand licensing for both database and

applications
Isolation between database and application workloads
Grow / shrink database and applications capacity

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Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform

Enables the Solution-in-a-Box
Run database and applications

Node 1

Node 2

in one box
Oracle VM used to partition

Application Domain

Application Domain

Application Domain

Application Domain

Application Domain

Application Domain

Database Domain

Database Domain

each server and host multiple

workloads
VLan networking to add
security access to VMs
VM HA and automatic restart
Grow/shrink with capacity-on-

demand licensing
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WebLogic Deployment on ODA

Solution-in-a-Box

Oracle Database Appliance

Node 2

Load Balancer

Load Balancer

WebLogic Server and

Software Load Balancer

App Domains

App Domains

Built-in high availability for

WebLogic

WebLogic

DOM 1
Database

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Deploy VMs to run

Node 1

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Database

application and database

Rapid wizard-driven
deployment

Solution-in-a-Box for ISVs

Quickly distribute ISV application solutions

Standardize application deployments
Reduce deployment time
Lower support cost

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JD Edwards Deployment on ODA

Solution-in-a-Box
Node 1

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Node 2

Load Balancer

Load Balancer

JDE Web Tier

JDE Web Tier

JDE Logic Tier

JDE Logic Tier

Database

Database

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Full Deployment of an HA

application and database in a

box

Load Balancer

Web and Logic

Oracle WebLogic

Oracle RAC Database

Yodlee
Business
Financial information (multiple credit cards, bank
accounts, brokerage accounts) aggregator offering
personal financial management solutions serving 600
leading financial institutions and 600 million
consumers.

Benefits
Single
Vendor

Less
Power

Better DB
Performance

Reduced
TCO

Easy, Fast
Setup

Objectives
Expansion plan - results in additional international
hosted data centers
Mission critical application - 99.99% availability (SLA)
Traditional solution would require extensive ,
expensive foot-print in every data center

Oracle Database
Appliance
Primary

Oracle Database
Appliance
Standby - DR

Data Guard

Solution
Considered 15 solutions, prototyped 5, selected ODA
3.6 TB of usable storage sufficient for 6 years but
using advanced compression got 7.2TB on ODA
ODA for production and disaster recovery
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RAC One Node

RAC One Node

Advanced Compression
Grid Control

Advanced Compression
Grid Control

50% of database respondents to a recent survey use less than

75% of their Licensed Database Capacity

Crimson Consulting Online Web Survey Dec 2012

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Built-In Scalability

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Capacity On Demand Licensing

Option 1: Build Your Own
License 48 Cores for Anticipated Growth

Option 2: Buy Database Appliance

License as You Grow and Save Significantly

48 Cores

32 Cores

Add Capacity
When You Need It

24 Cores
16 Cores

OR

12 Cores
8 Cores
4 Cores

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Purchase Capacity Up Front

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Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Purchase Capacity-on-Demand

What Could You Do with 2000 Extra Hours?

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Oracle Database Appliance X4-2 Reduces TCO

Configuration

Oracle Database
Appliance X4-2

Build Your Own: 2

Servers Plus Direct
Attach Storage:
2x DL380 G8+ SAS
Array with 20x HDDs and
4x SSDs

Hardware Cost

$60,000

$82,998

$75,533

~$20,000

2 48 cores

48 cores

48 cores

Up to 96%

4 Hr.
$400

194 Hours
$19,400

194 Hours
$19,400

$19,000

5 Hours/Yr
$500/Yr

148 Hours/Yr
$14,800/Yr

148 Hours/Yr
$14,800/Yr

$42,900

12 Hours/Yr
$1,200/Yr

76 Hours/Yr
$7,600/Yr

76 Hours/Yr
$7,600/Yr

$19,200

Software Licensing
and Support

Solution Design,
Acquire, Setup
Maintenance and
Patching (Quarterly)
Additional OPEX
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Build Your Own: 2

Servers Plus Direct Attach
Storage:
2x R720 + SAS Array
with 20x HDDs and 4x
SSDs

3 Year TCO/Savings

~ $100K

Best-in-Class Performance
Optimal data layout
Ideal disk group configuration

Direct-attached storage
Eliminates SAN/NAS bottlenecks

Out-of-the-box fully tuned

Increases throughput
Improves response time

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Performance

Data striping with ASM

Build-your-own

Oracle Database Engineered Systems Continuum

Engineered for
Extreme Simplicity

Full Rack
Half Rack

Quarter Rack
Eighth Rack
Oracle Database Appliance
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Engineered for Extreme Performance

ORACLE DATABASE APPLIANCE

Simple, Reliable, Affordable
Simple to deploy, manage and maintain

Best-in-class availability
Best-in-class performance
Built-in scalability
Capacity-on-demand licensing
Solution-in-a-Box
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