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2011 House of Brick Technologies, LLC

Industry Trends in Oracle, & Virtualization

Nathan Biggs, CEO


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About HoB

! House of Brick is a 13 year oldOmaha-based company thathas more tier-1 virtualization and

replatforming experience thananyone else in the industry

!We have built a rock-solidreputation for optimizing theentire system stack to maximize

tier-1 performance

! House of Brick key service value components! Hybrid/private cloud architectures for complex tier-1 workloads! Legacy to virtualization, and private/hybrid cloud system replatforming! Oracle and SQL Server virtualization specialties! Oracle license review & optimized utilization! Short term assessments and proof-of-concept projects! Long-term project analysis, PM, implementation, & validation


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Databases in use

85%63%

55%39%

37%

24%20%18%

7%6%

2%1%3%

Oracle Database 10gMicrosoft SQL Server

Oracle Database 9iMySQL

Oracle Database 11g

IBM DB2Oracle Database 8i or earlier

Oracle Database 11g R2PostgreSQL

IBM InformixBerkeley

SybaseOther

Which of these DATABASE products and services does your organization use? Check all that apply. n=367

Most shops have multiple database types and versions in use 11g adoption increasing almost 20% on 11gR2 and more

upgrades planned this year

Significant MySQL user base (lots of concern over its future)

Only 23%

in 09


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Corporate database standards Fewer organizations have a corporate database

standard than years past (squares with other data

showing very heterogeneous database environments)

More organizations using different databases for differentpurposes, depending on functional requirements, cost, etc.

MySQL; 1%

IBM DB2; 2%

Other; 2%

Microsoft SQL Server; 6%

No standard; 40%Oracle Database

10g; 32%

Oracle Database 11g; 12%

Oracle Database 9i; 5%

Oracle Database 8i or

earlier; 1%

Oracle,50%

Do you have an IT or corporate standard for database platform/version? Select one. n=367

In 2009, 27%had no standard

10g remains the databaseof choice, despite 11gavailability since 07


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Database plans

Upgrades to 11g the major focus this year, someconsolidation and migration between platforms

59%

26%

23%

8%

7%

Upgrading Oracle databases

No change expected

Consolidating Oracle databases

Migrating AWAY from Oracledatabases

Migrating TO more Oracle databases

How do you expect your organizations use of Oracle DATABASE platforms to change this year? Check all that apply.n=367

Top consolidation drivers arereducing costs (37%) andconsolidating data (19%)

10g to 11g 73%

9i to 10g 29%

9i to 11g 25%

11g to 11g R2 17%

8/8i to 10g 12%Point releases within anyversion 7%

8i to 11g 1%


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Cost / total

cost ofownership

(TCO); 45%

Support &

maintenancecosts; 21%

Other; 17%

Corporate

standards;17%

Better

featuresand

functions;38%

Performance;

17%

Support &

maintenanceservice/

quality, 13%

Administratio

n ease; 8%Corporate

standards;8%

Cost / total

cost ofownership

(TCO); 4%

Other; 12%

58%

25%

17%

4%

16%

Microsoft SQL

IBM DB2

MySQL

IBM Informix

Other

76%

28%

10%

7%

3%

Microsoft SQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

IBM DB2

Other

Migration to and from Oracle Most movement between Oracle and MSFT SQL Server (all

data very similar to 09.) most notable changes YOY are

with IBM DB2. Are more migrating away from DB2 in 2010?

Which other database platform(s) are you

migrating TO? Check all that apply. n=29

What database platform(s) are you migrating

FROM? Check all that apply. n=24

Whats the primary reason your organization is

moving toward another database platform? n=29

Whats the primary reason your organization is

moving to an Oracle database platform? n=24

Compare to

10% in 2009

Compare to17% in 2009


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Tier-1 Workloads

!This TechTarget information shows that Oracle is reallythe dominant underlying infrastructure to most tier-1

business-critical applications

!While most of what I will present could be applied toany tier-1 workload, I will be focusing on the Oraclevirtualization trends that we have seen


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First, What are your trends?

!How many of you have a virtualization strategy?!How many of you have tried to virtualize Oracle?!Was it successful?!How many of you have virtualized Oracle in

production?

!Why not?!How many include all production, tier-1 in your

virtualization strategy?


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Were not going tovirtualize our prod

Oracle stacks.


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We know weregoing to have tovirtualize our prod

Oracle stacks.


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How can I doit best?


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Technology Adoption Lifecycle

The Chasm


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Virtualization Adoption Lifecycle

The Chasm

Tier-2/3 Tier-1, Business Critical Workloads


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Virtualization adoptionin Oracle environments

Virtualization use growing YOY now in use bymore than half for transactional apps and DBs.

Other open text write-ins indicated that many are using virtualizationon application servers. Some also specifically wrote in that they are not

using virtualization for databases.

Yes;52%

No;

34% Interestedbut noplans; 8%

Planning toadd in next

year; 6%

Other;14%

Types of virtualization in use

Server virtualization 92%

Application virtualization 26%

Database virtualization 17%

Storage Virtualization 1%

38%

29%

22%

11%

Use for less critical databases/applications

Use broadly for transactionaldatabases/applications

Use for a few transaction-intensive databases/

applications

Other

Does your organization use any

virtualization technology? n=438Which kinds of virtualization

technology does your organization

use (or are you planning to use)?Check all that apply. n=257

Please describe your organizations

use of server virtualization

technology. n=239

Compare to:

2009 = 44%2008 = 27%


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Virtualization driversin Oracle environments

Server consolidation driving virtualizationpurchases in Oracle environments

We believe many readers picked this option because it encompasses many goals atonce reducing hardware, reducing data center space/energy requirements and

reducing costs.

84%

53%

42%

41%

35%

2%

2%

Server hardware consolidation

Operations benefits

Energy savings

Disaster recovery

Server software consolidation

Licensing / costs

Other

What is driving your decision to adopt virtualization? Check all that apply. n=239


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The Tier-1 Virtualization Chasm

!What are the typical barriers in the Tier-1Virtualization Chasm?

!What are they for you?!At House of Brick, we hear many reasons from

our customers

!Those can fit into three typical barriers


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The 3 Barriers of Oracle Virtualization

!The barriers we encounter most frequently withour customers are really just myths:

1.Oracle does not support VMware2.Oracle workloads do not perform

sufficiently on VMware

3.Oracle licensing is not VMware-friendly


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Myth 1: Oracle Does Not Support VMware

!Oracle does support VMware(Oracle note 249212.1)

! Larry Ellison, in November 2007 analyst call confirmed! They do not certify VMware (or any hardware platform)! Oracle only certifies entities above the OS (like OVM)

! 11.08.2010 Oracle added full support for all technologies!Oracle software sales may tell customers that

there is no support; but they are starting to softenthat stance

!House of Brick has never had Oracle turn away acustomer issue that they knew was on vmware


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Myth 2: Oracle Does Not Perform on VMware

!In all of our customer experience at HoB,production Oracle performance on vmwarehas been excellent

!We performance tune all kinds of systems.Never have we run into an issue that wasVMware-related. Problems are typically IO-related.

!The IO virtualization latency wedge is 1.4% fromhardware to VMware ESX 3.5 as measured on EMCClariion storage

!This is insignificant for our best practices


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Myth 3: Oracle Licensing is Not vmware-Friendly

Named User Plus

! Oracle is licensed bynamed user

! No different on hardwareor vmware

! Cost neutral

Processor-Based

! Must license full-machine! No limit on the number of

VMs that can go on thatmachine running Oracle

! Cost positive

! While Oracle is always free to change their licensingpolicy, currently it is quite friendly to vmware! Oracle has Two Licensing Models

!Legacy Unix Oracle core factors range from 0.75 to1.0. x86 core factor is 0.5


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Seven Reasons to Virtualize Tier-1

1. Cost Reduction This comes in the form of both CapEx reductions fromhardware and Oracle licensing, and OpEx reductions from improvedmanageability, shorter development cycles, improved QA, etc.

2. Near 100% Reliable Disaster Recoverability Historical recovery frombackup has been dicey at best. VMware provides a near 100%recoverability.

3. Product Release Cycle Optimization Full production clones, isolated testenvironments, quick provisioning, dev server management, etc.

4. High Availability (HA) Very high availability at a fraction of the cost ofOracle RAC

5. Oracle License Optimization Load up the hardware with more Oracle

workloads without paying for more licenses

6. Production Error Capture When there is a production problem, snapshotto capture the whole environment for improved resolution (with nodowntime a future feature)

7. Security Complete isolation between systems on the same host, smallerattack target footprint, VM to processor tracing, etc.

any one of which would be sufficient justification


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So, How do you cross the chasm?

!Review, and satisfy the emotional barriers!Start small!

Find a small workload that is representative of yourproduction configuration

!Virtualize that in a proof-of-concept!

Use the House of Brick best practices that DaveWelch will present

!Bring in some expert help


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[email protected]/oracle-on-vmware


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Tier-1 Oracle Workloads on vSphere BestPractices

Dave WelchCTO & Chief Evangelist


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Refresh on RISC?

RISCx86 Intel/AMD


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Platform

!2 socket boxes!>= 96 GB installed!Linux!64-bit guests

!vSphere 4.1! NFS: vSphere 4.1 =

25-125% performanceboost

! The Java Release!! Handles heavy

context-switchworkloads

! DRS Host Affinity Rules!

IO/Network reservations


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Memory

!Full RAM reservations for Tier-1 workloads! Dont over-subscribe

!Dont radically over-allocate RAM!Huge Pages: up to 30% performance boost with very

large SGAs


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Architecture

!One JVM / guest!Lean toward Atomicity!

One component per VM


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Operations

!VMware Lab Manager! Becoming vCloud

Director

! Ditch proprietary appstack cloning procedures

!EMC ReplicationManager

! Datastore-level cloning! Application-aware


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CPU

!Disable BIOS green settings!Start conservative. Dont over-allocate vCPUs.!CPU Ready Time! 300ms average redline! 500ms HWM


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Storage

!Storage performanceattributes

!


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Storage slide 2

!ASM!Disk block alignment!PVSCSI Driver!EMC PowerPath VE Driver!EMC FAST VP!Async I/O injection tools:! Orion! Bonnie ++! IOmeter - Windows guest only

I/O


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Network

!10 GbE:!Consolidate app and vMotion networks!Validate drivers!

!NFS!vSphere 4.1 = 25-125% performance boost!11g: Oracles Direct NFS (DNFS)

!NAS on 10 GbE: Enable Jumbo Frames. 85%performance boost


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Soft Partition License

A Typical Blade Configuration

Example: A DRS Cluster with Oracle! Four blades, each w/4 CPU cores; each VM is 2 vCPU (2-core)

! Solution:! Both ORACLEHOSTS must be licensed for all 8 cores on 2 blades! Same physical or virtual: (8 cores) x (0.5 x86 factor) = 4 licenses

! Free to move that Oracle DB VM back & forth between Host 1 & 2! Do not let Oracle DB VMs migrate to App Host 3 or App Host 4!! Isolate: vCenter logical clusters, or DRS 4.1 Host Affinity Rules! See Gartner Research Doc ID #G00165003 for similar guidance

OracleDB

But Oracle tells me I have to licenseEVERY server in the ESX cluster!


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Data Guard vs. Replication

!~100% DR reliability!License host if Oracle

installed and/or runhttp://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/data-recovery-

licensing-070587.pdf

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VLDB Re-platforming Prep

!Golden Gate unsupported types! ORDDICOM! ANYDATA! ANYDATASET! ANYTYPE! BFILE! MLSLABEL! TIMEZONE_ABBR! TIMEZONE_REGION! URITYPE! UROWID


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Re-platforming Methods

!TransportableTablespaces

!Data Pump! Inadequate

parallel attributes

!Single-threaded viaNFS stage: days?

!Streams/GoldenGate

!House of BricksReplatforming Tool

!exp/imp!Named Pipes!Load Balancer!PERL: existing

object DDL

!Balance!!Rows by Schema!Objects by

schema/status/

type


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Load Testing

!Benchmarks are unusual!Most workloads will have any CPU pressure at

DB tier

!Streamlined load test (IU example)!Trace capture/awk!75 injectors, 9M transactions, 2 hours!3,000 errors (insignificant)

!PL/SQL Compile Time = ~25%% of needed headroom

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VM

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Production RAC Criteria

!Explicit SLA


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Channel Blade TechnologiesMay 2007

Bethlehem, PA

Virginia Beach, VARAC

10.2.0.3

SLES

10.2

ESX Server 3.0.1

RAC

10.2.0.3

SLES

10.2

ESX Server 3.0.1 ESX Server 3.0.1

Sun Opteron 4 core 2.6 GHz servers, 32 GB RAM

Storagetek

6140 SAN

10.2.0.3

RedoApply

SLES 10.2

10g

Grid

SLES 10

ESX Server 3.0.1

Sun Opteron 4 core

2.6 GHz servers

Storagetek

3510 SAN

PRODUCTION

DR SITE

100 Mbit

300 miles

SLES 9

RAC10.2.0.3


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Storage Virtual Tooling

VMFS

Maximum ESX toolingASMAllows Fibre Channel--max I/O performance

RDM

More configuration/management overheadASM

In-guest

No ESX toolingNo ASM


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Storage Oracle Support

In-guestHot-fork a branch to native

RDM

No storage reformattingMinimal downtimeCould script RDM link removal

VMFSDowntime to reformat storage


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Organizational

!Tell folks youre going to virtualize them before you do it!Put your DBAs through vSphere Install & Config class!DR trial via VMware Site Recovery Manager


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Resources

Oracle on vSphere: Re-Platforming Tier 1 Oracle

Databases from UNIX to vSphere at Indiana

University (VMworld 2010)

Oracle Enterprise Workloads on VMware How-To

(VMworld 2009)

House of Brick Oracle VMware Support Position

Paper

www.vmware.com/oracle


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Contacts

Dave Welch

! [email protected]! www.houseofbrick.com

Nathan Biggs

! [email protected]! www.houseofbrick.com


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Copyright

Copyright 2011 House of Brick Technologies. This work is the

intellectual property of House of Brick Technologies, LLC.To disseminate or to republish requires written permissionfrom the copyright owner.

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