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Exadata High Availability Solutions

Giri Arunagiri Sr. Manager, Symantec

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Agenda

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Symantec Authentication Division Overview 1

Why Engineered Systems? Exadata 2

Our Architecture 3

DB High Availability Solutions 4

Exadata Patching 5

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Symantec Authentication Division Overview • Formerly VeriSign • Acquired by Symantec in August, 2010 • #1 in SSL Certificates issued

– VeriSign, Thawte and GeoTrust brands

• Strong Authentication for network, web and mobile devices • Two Factor Authentication • Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) services • User Authentication for the government

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Symantec Sets the Highest CA Policies

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Pioneer in SSL technologies Pioneer in SSL technologies Pioneer in

Worldwide 1 Million web servers worldwide 1 Million web servers worldwide 1 Mil n SSL Certificates Issued Leader in SSL Certificates Issued Leader in SSL Cert

e 2004 100% validation services uptime since 2004 100% validation services up

CA data centers 14 global data centers 13 global CA data centers 14 global

5 billion online OCSP lookups/ day 4.5 billion online OCSP lookups/ day 4.5 bill CSP queries <1 second response for OCSP queries <1 second response for OC

elligence Network Global Intelligence Network/STAR Global Intelligence Networ

blic CA 1st Public CA 1st Public CA 1st Public CA 1st Public CA 1st Public CA 1st Pu

* OSCP: online certificate status protocol

Why Engineered Systems? • Integrated Stack

– Pre-packaged solution with hardware, OS, Clustering and database components

– Integrated and Optimized by Oracle – Faster time to deploy

• One vendor for support – For OS, Clusterware, InfiniBand, Storage and

Database support – Will save us time and effort in complex

performance/outage issues

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Symantec Strong Authentication Solutions now powered by Oracle Exadata & Oracle Active Data Guard

Exadata Enables Systems & Data Consolidation AIX Infrastructure

IBM P6

SSC 10g

IBM P6

GeoTrust 11gR1

IBM P6

Pilot 11g/10g

SRDF

IBM P55A

VIP 10g

VMAX1 VMAX2

CX 0833

IBM P6

LDR

NS 480

ILG - Production

IBM P4

VIP 9i

CX 4445

IBM P5

FDS 10g

CX 3018

BRN - Production

IBM P6

RDR

NS 480

MTV - DR

IBM P5

ECAS / Device 10g

VIP-W 10g

IBM P5

VIP-E 9i

IBM P55A

FDS – Perf 11gR2

CX 0830

CX 3038

IBM P6

FDS – DEV / QA 11gR2

MTV - EDC

IBM P5

IBM P5

Partner 10g Standby

IBM P5

IBM P55A

RAC 11gR1

CX 2915

IBM P6

Dev/QA 11gR1

Waltham – GeoTrust Dev/QA

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Exadata X3-2 Half Rack (50 TB raw)

West Coast DC QA/Dev

46 Test/Dev databases

East 1

Active Data Guard

East 2

7 production databases – size range from 50GB to 2.5TB

15 standby databases for Local DR

West East Coast DC

Active Data Guard

2 standby databases for Remote DR

15 production databases – size range from 25GB to 500GB

7 standby databases for Local DR

3 standby databases for Remote DR

5 production databases – size range from 25GB to 600GB

22 standby databases for Remote DR

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Symantec Strong Authentication Solution: Database Architecture West Coast Data Center

QA/Dev East 1

Active Data Guard *

East 2 West

Active Data Guard *

East Coast Data Center

Prod DB 4 Node RAC

Prod DB 4 Node RAC

Local DR 4 Node RAC

Local DR 4 Node RAC

Remote DR 4 Node RAC Remote DR 4 Node RAC

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46 Test/Dev databases

5 production databases – size range from 25GB to 600GB

22 standby databases for Remote DR

7 production databases – size range from 50GB to 2.5TB

15 standby databases for Local DR

2 standby databases for Remote DR

15 production databases – size range from 25GB to 500GB

7 standby databases for Local DR

3 standby databases for Remote DR

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* Active Data Guard utilized for real-time Authentication Reporting Applications

Database High Availability Solutions Failover and Switchover

Cluster1 Node1

Cluster1 Node2

Cluster2 Node2

Cluster2 Node1

Client Node Client Node

Normal Connections

Node Failover

Primary db Standby db Active

Data Guard

Primary db Standby db

Cluster Switchover

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Exadata Patching

• Quarterly patching • Adhere to Audit and Compliance requirements • Dev -> QA -> DR -> Prod • At least a week gap between each of them • Completely online and transparent to end users

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Exadata Patching – Cell Servers • Each half rack has 7 cell servers • Reboot ILOM to confirm console access • Patch cell servers, which comprises of the following:

– Take it offline – Confirm the grid disk status is offline – Patch cell server – Put it back online

• Completely transparent to databases and end users • ASM resynch occurs transparently, no ASM rebalancing

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Exadata Patching – Database Servers

• Each half rack has 4 db servers •Patching steps

– Take db server out of rotation – Patch it – Put db servers back in rotation – Patch the remaining db servers the same way

•Completely transparent to end users

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Thank you!

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