Database Edition for Sybase

Sales Presentation

Market Drivers

• DBAs are facing immense time pressure in an environment with ever-increasing data

• Continuous availability (24x7) of mission-critical Sybase databases– Faster access to data – Performance!!

– Easier management of increasing data

– Data integrity – High availability

VERITAS Solution:Database Edition for Sybase

BuildingBlocks

HA Edition

Sybase

VCS Agent for Oracle

VERITAS Volume Manager

VERITAS File System with (Cached) Quick I/O

Volume Manager Storage Administrator

Database Edition for Oracle

Product Positioning

VERITAS Database Edition for Sybase offers raw device performance with file system manageability.• Offers equal to raw performance and for high-

memory systems even greater performance • Offers ease of management of file systems• Increases availability of Sybase dataservers

Key Features

VxFS with Quick I/O delivers raw disk performance and ease of file system administration• Equal or better OLTP throughput

Ease-of-use is provided with a Java-based Storage Administrator GUI• Visual configuration from a single console

HA Edition provides automatic monitoring and recovery of Sybase application

Raw I/O Performance withEase of File System Management

Manageability “Invisible” locations for segments Difficult to grow segments

Unique, total storage foundation solution to deliver the best of both worlds

Database Edition for Sybase

Performance Best OLTP

performance

DataReliability No potential

for data losswith datawritten todisks directly

DisadvantagesAdvantages

Raw Disks

Performance Lower database

throughput (30-90% of

raw disk) Higher CPU

overhead

Data IntegrityPotentialdata loss

Advantages

Manageability Segment

organization System-wide

backup and restorepolicies

Easy to create and add devicesfor Sybase

Disadvantages

Conventional File Systems

Quick I/O for Databases

Breakthrough VERITAS File System interface technology

Presents regular VERITAS File System files to Oracle as raw character devices

• Allows parallel updates to database files for increased throughput• Takes advantage of kernel async I/O (Solaris’ KAIO)• Sybase handles locking for data integrity

Eliminates traditional UNIX file system overhead

Quick I/O

regularfile

rawdevice

RDBMSServer

OLTP Benchmark Results

Quick I/O and raw disk I/O produce equal performance for OLTP benchmark• Derived from TPC-C - mix of read-only and update-

intensive transactions in order-entry environments

All configurationsinclude VERITASVolume Manager.

Test configurationincluded: Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000 (4 CPUs; 512 MG of RAM) Solaris 2.5.1 VERITAS Database Edition 1.2 for Sybase Sybase ASE 11.5.1 TPC-0C scale factor of 100

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Sybase Edition

VxFS Direct I/O

Raw Partitions

Cached Quick I/O Overview

Implemented as a buffered read, direct write solution• Retains data reliability advantage of direct write• Gains read-ahead at the File System and memory-to-

memory copy performance advantage

Easy online management to turn Cache on/off for Quick I/O files• Like Quick I/O, enabled on a per-file basis

Multiple database instances can co-exist with selective caching for specific datafiles

VERITAS Storage Administrator

Simplifies Management

• Allows one-step graphical execution of common configuration management steps

Database Edition/HAVERITAS Cluster Server

Sophisticated availability configuration management

Clustered HA solution allowing 2-32 server scalability

1:1, Any:1 and 1:Any policy-based failover

Application level cascading failover

Fast Kernel-to-Kernel communication & failover

Certified 3rd party support for SCSI, SAN & NAS storage

Centralized Cluster Manager console for HP-UX, Solaris and Windows NT

Key Selling Points

Performance

• Database Edition Performance achieves at least equal to Raw Device Performance

• OLTP benchmark results (TPC-C derived)

Manageability

• Even new DBAs can manage Sybase with when the Edition is installed

High Availability• Applications keep running when servers fail

Supported Platforms

Solaris 2.6, 7, 8

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5.2, 11.9.2, 11.9.3, and 12.0

SYBASE CERTIFIED

Summary

Database Edition for Sybase enables businesses to meet their top database priorities:• Optimal performance• Manageability• High data and database availability

Thank you!

Business without interruption.