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An Oracle Business White Paper

December 2013

How to Save Money, Reduce Risk, andIncrease Agility When Deploying OracleDatabase SystemsOracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database


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How to Save Money, Reduce Risk, and Increase Agility When Deploying Oracle Database Systems

Executive Overview ........................................................................... 2

Introduction ....................................................................................... 3

Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database ................................ 5

Designed to Run the Oracle Database Better ................................ 5

Configuration Sizes for Different Needs ......................................... 6

Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership ............................................... 7

Example Five-year Total Cost of Ownership Analysis .................... 8

Reducing Risk to Business Operations ............................................ 10

Improving Total System Availability ............................................. 10

Enhancing Security ...................................................................... 11

Reducing Deployment and Interoperability Risks ......................... 12

Boosting User Productivity and Business Agility .............................. 13

Higher Performance Improves Productivity .................................. 13

Achieving Agility Through Scaling and Reconfiguration ............... 13

Conclusion ...................................................................................... 15

References ...................................................................................... 17


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Executive Overview

Traditionally, as organizations deployed new databases, new systems were deployed,

adding to equipment sprawl, increasing data center complexity, and escalating costsin the data center. As a result, IT investments often sat underutilized yet unavailable

for the next project need. By consolidating databases onto shared infrastructure,

organizations are better positioned to manage database infrastructure to achieve

faster business results, scale systems with usage growth, and quickly react to new

business opportunities.

This paper outlines how Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database can help IT

departments consolidate database services and better utilize resources while

containing their infrastructure costs. This paper has been updated to include Oracle

Database 12c Enterprise Edition, which features a new multitenant architecture that

simplifies the process of consolidating databases onto the cloud, enabling customers

to manage many databases as one without changing their applications.

The solution brings three significant advantages:

It defines a scalable architecture that enables consolidation of Oracle Database

infrastructure, simplifies operations, and lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) for

operating a number of databases. A sample TCO analysis in this paper shows how a 50

percent savings can be achieved by replacing older infrastructure with a configuration based

on Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database.

The solution reduces risk because it outlines proven configurations and best practices that

increase security, protect data, reduce human error, and minimize disruptions to business.

The solution increases agility and productivity, helping IT organizations react quickly to

changes in business strategies and scaling to support new programs, larger capacities,

more users, and higher transaction volumes.

A companion technical paper, How to Consolidate, Optimize, and Deploy Oracle

Database Environments including Multitenant Database with Flexible Virtualized

Services,describes the solution architecture in greater detail.
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While these factory-integrated engineered systems have tremendous value for

many customers, they might not be the optimal solution for all sites and all

business needs. Engineered systems are purchased and shipped as specific

configurations, so they arentthe best fit for organizations that might notrequire or be in a position to benefit from the Oracle Exadata Storage Servers

included with those products. With Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle

Database, organizations can continue to invest in SAN storage or other

currently installed technologies yet also benefit from technology advancements

that are enabled by using multiple Oracle products together.

Bringing together Oracle products and technologies at each tier, Oracle

Optimized Solutions act as a blueprint to implement a complete solution,

saving money, reducing integration risk, improving productivity, and shorteningtime to deployment. Oracle performs extensive testing and validation so that

each solution reflects proven best practices that address important challenges

in the enterprise. Deploying an Oracle Optimized Solution also means that

there is a single point of accountability for purchasing, deployment,

maintenance services, and ongoing support.


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Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database

Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database combines state-of-the-art Oracle products and

technologies in an architecture that consolidates, simplifies, and accelerates Oracle Database system

deployments. As shown inFigure 1,the solution architecture leverages Oracle componentsstorage

and compute systems, built-in virtualization, the Oracle Solaris operating system, and, of course, the

Oracle Database software itself. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12cmanages the database environment

through an intuitive administrative interface while Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12csupplies

management and monitoring of Oracle server hardware, firmware, operating systems, virtual servers,

and updates. The solution is an attractive foundation for data-driven applications from Oracle or

independent software vendors (ISVs).

Designed to Run the Oracle Database Better

Oracle has made significant engineering investments to improve the results when Oracle products are

used together. These cross-product optimizations deliver advantages in areas such as performance,security, system reliability, and ease of data center operations. A few examples of these efforts include

Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM for SPARCBuilt-in virtualization technologies

enable consolidating multiple Oracle Database instances safely on dense SPARC servers,

allowing databases to be centralized while also providing isolation for security and maintaining

predictable performance.

Oracle Database 12cCloningThe integration of Oracle Database 12ccloning with the

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance snapshot feature allows DBAs to create copies of their

databases with a simple database command. This allows database staff the freedom to manage

copies of their databases to improve the management of test and QA projects.

Transparent Data EncryptionWhen this Oracle Database feature is enabled, the databaseautomatically accesses on-core cryptography engines in the solutions servers to protect

sensitive data, allowing organizations to use encryption pervasively to reduce risk with little

impact on performance and administration.

While Oracle Database releases are available for a number of commercially available operating systems,

virtualization technologies, and hardware platforms, there are unique advantages of running Oracle

Database services on an Oracle infrastructure.


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Figure 1. Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database leverages a complete stack of Oracle products and

technologies to streamline mission-critical database deployments.

Configuration Sizes for Different Needs

Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database can be deployed on configurations of various sizes. All

configurations share the same underlying architecture and are based on Oraclesenterprise-class

platforms, creating an infrastructure solution that is highly scalable, optimized for Oracle Database

performance, and engineered to support continuous availability of business-critical databases andapplications.

Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database targets the following goals:

Lowering the total cost of ownership for database systems

Reducing risk and maintaining continuous availability of IT and business operations

Increasing user productivity and business agility

The remainder of this paper explores how the solution helps organizations attain these objectives.


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Lowering the Total Cost of Ownership

When consolidating using Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database, there are a number of

factors that contribute to containing costs while enabling growth:

Higher consolidation ratiosOracle Optimize Solution for Oracle Database leverages the world's

fastest database and enterprise Java servers. These new systems provide significantly higher

processing power, memory bandwidth, and capacity, as well as the latest-generation I/O

architecture, resulting in numerous performance world records1. With higher performing systems, a

larger number of databases can be supported per system resulting in fewer deployed systems, lower

maintenance costs, less administration, energy savings, and less data center floor space.

Higher data compressionThe integration of Oracle storage products and Oracle Database to

deliver Hybrid Columnar Compression reduces storage needs and drives more efficient use of

storage resources. HCC can reduce storage needs by 10 to 50 times and accelerate query

performance by greatly reducing the size of data transfers from storage to CPU during these

operations. These effects combine to deliver better results from storage investments.

Faster deploymentThe time and effort expended from project conception to full operation can

be reduced by as much as 50 percent with an Oracle Optimized Solution. Oracle Engineering has

invested considerable effort architecting, testing, validating, and tuning this solution, reducing the

need for trial-and-error tuning, extensive integration testing, and HA validation onsite.

Designed-in virtualizationDesigned-in virtualization withOracle Solaris Zones,network

virtualization,andOracle VM for SPARC provide everything needed to virtualize, consolidate, and

manage a large database environmentat no extra cost. Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle

Database provides fine-grained control of resources, down to the CPU thread, memory, I/O bus,

and network levels. Oracle Multitenant 12cenables further virtualization of databases and improves

the how Oracle Database uses system resources.

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Simplified administrationWith an integrated family of tools designed to administer the

environment, considerable time can be saved compared to working with a variety of multivendor

tools. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c, part of the Oracle Enterprise Manager portfolio,

provides an intuitive interface for monitoring and managing the solution hardware, firmware, virtual

systems, operating system instances, administrative rights, patching, and updates. By adding other

modules from the Oracle Enterprise Manager family, administrators can control Oracle Database

instances and Oracle Applications across the entire enterprise. Oracle has also invested in

engineering best practices for this solution, including techniques that clone Oracle Database 11g

databases and their virtual environments up to 50x faster than manual methods, simplifying and

accelerating the creation of development and test systems.

Guaranteed compatibilityNew hardware deployments often include hiddencosts, such as

forced software upgrades or rework of custom code and utilities. Oracle Optimized Solution for

Oracle Database features Oracle Solaris, which runs applications, utilities, and databases unchanged

across Oracle Solaris releases providing investment protection and avoiding unplanned upgrade

costs.

These are a few examples of advanced engineering efforts that enable organizations to deploy and

operate a more efficient database environment that delivers better services while containing costs.

Example Five-year Total Cost of Ownership Analysis

To demonstrate the level of potential savings, this section presents a five-year TCO analysis,

comparing the costs of operating an existing farm of legacy UNIX systems to the costs of deploying

and operating a new Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database based on Oracles SPARC T5

servers. Database workloads, coupled with performance data from proof-of-concept testing, were used

to develop a proposed configuration that delivers the same level of performance. Equivalent SAN-

based RAID 5 storage and Oracle Database, Enterprise Edition 11glicenses were used as the basis ofboth configurations. For the Oracle Optimized Solution case, Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle

RAC) licenses were added to the configuration to enhance the value provided by the solution with full

database high availability.

The TCO analysis inFigure 2 demonstrates that there is a considerable financial benefit to upgrading

from legacy systemsOracles SPARC Enterprise M5000 systems, in this exampleto Oracle

Optimized Solution for Oracle Database. This was the case including the enhanced availability offered

by Oracle RAC on the Oracle Optimized Solution configuration. Similar savings can be expected for

other server models or UNIX system vendors. Highlights of the results include the following:

A five-year TCO savings of US$5.25 million, approximately 50 percent of the five-year TCO for the

legacy systems solution 53 percent lower hardware costs, taking into account the cost of acquiring the proposed solution as

well as service and support costs for both the legacy and the proposed systems

A 7-to-1 ratio of server platforms when consolidating SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers onto a

configuration of Oracles SPARC T5-4 servers


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4x lower power and cooling costs

5x less floor space used

Database availability with Oracle RAC built into the new configuration

Figure 2. Five-year TCO comparison between new Oracle Optimized Solution deployment and legacy installation.

Key Assumptions for Five-Year TCO Analysis

TCO analysis was done using industry-accepted formulas. Power consumption and floor space

requirements sourced from Oracle published data. Performance/sizing data used from internal

Oracle testing results.

TCO analysis includes cost of servers, storage, SAN infrastructure, hardware maintenance, OracleDatabase, Enterprise Edition 11glicense, operating system RTU, and costs for software

maintenance, floor space, and estimated power and cooling.

No annual usage growth rate was applied. Hardware deflation rate used was 15 percent and base

inflation rate was 5 percent.

The legacy configuration included six SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers, each with eight

SPARC64 VI 2.15-GHz processors and 128 GB of RAM; eight SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers,

each with eight SPARC64 VI 2.66-GHz processors and 128 GB of RAM; and 34 TB of usable of

mid-range SAN-attached storage connected through 72 FC SAN ports.

The proposed configuration included two SPARC T5-4 servers, each with four SPARC T5 3.6-GHz

processors and 2 TB of RAM. A Pillar Axiom 600 array from Oracle was configured with two

slammers and six bricks (disk trays) for a total of 34 TB of usable RAID 5 storage and 48ports of 16

Gb SAN switching.


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Reducing Risk to Business Operations

Oracle Optimized Solutions reduce overall risk to business operations by offering a proven

architecture that Oracle prevalidates for compatibility, performance, and reliability. Oracle Engineering

implements and tests the solution through an iterative process. The solution architecture addresses the

need for continuous database availability, incorporating redundant components, fault detection, and

clustering technologies to reduce the risk of a production outage.

Twenty percent of respondents report having three or more days of unplanned downtime during the past year, and close to halfreport

three or more days of planned downtime. Whether its planned or unplanned, there is a cost to downtime, and most respondents report

their businesses regularly feel the effects of these interruptionsboth at a business and IT operational level.

Joseph McKendrick

Enterprise Data and the Cost of Downtime

2012 IOUG Database Availability Survey, Unisphere Research, July 2012

Improving Total System Availability

Significant investments have been made in the Oracle software and hardware stack to ensure that the

highest possible levels of availability can be achieved. Engineering work around maximizing availability

is focused in three areas. The first area targets planned and maintenance outages by increasing the

variety of operational tasks that can be performed during live operations. The second area focuses on

the management of minor problems that can be done without removing systems or components from

service. The third area is providing automatic service restoration in the event of a major system,

network, or storage problem. The following are examples of some of the unique availability

advantages of Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database:

Oracle Solaris Optimized Shared MemoryOracle Solaris 11.1 has been architected to provide

support for massive compute and memory capacity. With Optimized Shared Memory, the databasessystem global area (SGA) can be resized online without a reboot or a database restart, providing

greater flexibility and the ability to scale for growth without impacting user access to database

services. Additionally, database startup and shutdown time is 8x faster, so when a shutdown is

required, the outage time can be reduced.

Live migrationLogical domains containing Oracle Database instances can be migrated between

servers without downtime. This allows hardware service and upgrades or software maintenance to be

performed without requiring a maintenance shutdown. Live migration requires that the source and

target servers have shared access to storage and networking.

Predictive Self-HealingThis Oracle Solaris feature enables SPARC servers to predict component

failures accurately and mitigates many serious problems before they actually occur. The systemreceives data related to hardware and software errors, and the system automatically diagnoses the

underlying problem. Once diagnosed, the system automatically responds by offlining faulty

components. Removing degraded components before they actually fail minimizes the impact on

users and operations.


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Domain reconfigurationDepending on the system, some configurations permit reconfiguration

(removing or adding physical hardware and cards) while the database environment is still running.

This allows hardware repairs or upgrades to occur without disrupting the system or the database

operations.

Protection against individual component failuresOracles SPARC servers provide redundant

power supplies, cooling, storage connections, and network connections. Unique among

enterprise-class UNIX systems, Oracles SPARC M6-32 servers can tolerate a CPU failure, a

memory failure, or the failure of a level 1, level 2, or level 3 cache without shutting down an entire

server or virtual system. The result is not only continued operation but also minimal impact to users,

performance, database services, and hosted applications.

Protection against system failuresOracle RAC supports the transparent deployment of a single

database across pools of servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware failures or planned

outages. Oracle RAC supports mainstream business applications of all kinds, including OLTP,

decision-support system (DSS), and mixed OLTP/DSS environments. While Oracle RAC is

available for many platforms, it has been fully tested and validated in the Oracle Optimized Solutions

configurations.

Quality of service (QoS) for storageBecause storage often is a resource that is shared among

databases, applications, and other components, deployments can face a risk if activity on one system

unexpectedly impacts another system. Oracles Pillar Axiom 600 storage systems allow organizations

to differentiate between QoS levels that different applications and databases require. Administrators

can use the Pillar Axiom user interface to assign a QoS priority, allowing the storage environment to

deliver expected I/O performance for high-priority workloads even when other activity is underway.

Enhancing Security

The Oracle Solaris operating system provides unparalleled security features, including many thatoriginated in previous military-grade versions of the operating system. In conjunction with Oracle

Solaris Zones, the operating system offers a sophisticated user and process rights management scheme

that supports secure multitenancy of sensitive databases and applications within the same system. Userrights management in Oracle Solaris allows administrators to create an oraclerole and assign it to

multiple users with DBA responsibilities.

Oracles SPARC T4, SPARC T5, and SPARC M6-32 servers incorporate processors that support

widely used cryptographic algorithms, accelerating them in hardware. When the Transparent Data

Encryption feature is used to encrypt sensitive data in an Oracle Database, it optimizes performance

using hardware-based cryptographic acceleration in these systems processors. Since many laws and

regulations mandate the protection of identities, financial data, health records, and other sensitive data,organizations can implement secure queries without imposing a performance penalty or the additional

cost of add-on encryption devices. For further information about Transparent Data Encryption with

Oracle Database, seeHigh Performance Security for Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware

Applications using SPARC T4.
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Reducing Deployment and Interoperability Risks

Extensive solution testing benefits enterprise deployments because it lowers risk, preventing delays that

can otherwise occur during build-out and implementation. With Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle

Database, everything that is required to deploy a mission-critical database systemranging fromadvanced database functionality to the disk drives where data is storedhas been predefined and

tested. By providing a complete solution that spans the database, clustering, virtualization, file system

and volume management, operating system, servers, networks, disk storage, and management tools,

Oracle removes many of the complexities that are common in constructing a complete database

infrastructure.

Figure 3 shows the broad variety of technologies needed to support a database solution and illustrates

the complexity involved in building a solution using components from multiple vendors. Challenges

can include integrating and testing technology stacks, determining initial compatibility (and

compatibility after subsequent updates), managing the environment, and dealing with different service

and support organizations. In contrast, deploying Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database

implies

A complete solution that is optimized and tested to support mission-critical database environments

Hardware and software designed and tested to work together to avoid compatibility issues and to

maximize the quality of the overall solution

A single service and support organization for the entire environment

Availability of an integrated portfolio of management toolsOracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle

Enterprise Manager Ops Centerthat can be used to manage the environment, including

applications, the database, virtual systems, the operating system, storage, firmware, administrative

rights, patching and updates, and more

Figure 3. Oracle provides a comprehensive single-vendor solution that reduces deployment and interoperability risk.


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Boosting User Productivity and Business Agility

Higher Performance Improves Productivity

Increased database system performance can translate directly into gains in efficiency and productivity

for application users. These gains can have a direct financial impact on key business metrics, for

example:

Faster response times and lower latency can supply a strategic competitive advantage, improving the

user experience, increasing customer loyalty, and boosting sales.

Processing more transactions in a given time can allow workers to be more productive, allowing

them, for example, to handle more sales or support calls per hour.

Reduced query times can enable business decisions to be made earlier and allow for additional

analysis, enabling more-informed decision-making.

As mentioned earlier in the paper, Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database leverages theworlds fastest database and enterprise Java servers that hold over twenty-performance world records1.

Achieving Agility Through Scaling and Reconfiguration

Once a mission-critical database system is deployed and operating, it must adjust and scale to meet

future business requirements. Two factors contribute to the inherent agility of database systems:

Initial system sizing, including built-in expansion to accommodate growth in database capacity,

transaction volumes, and applications

The ability of the solution to incorporate enhancements and expand throughout its lifecycle

Since critical database systems are often deployed for five years or longer, it is sometimes difficult toproject future needs accurately. Events such as acquisitions, new partnerships, new applications, or

unanticipated user growth can dictate performance requirements that are hard to foresee. Even with

the best capacity planning efforts, the flexibility to scale and grow can determine the actual lifespan of a

production system.


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Scaling a database system extends beyond CPU performance and encompasses total memory capacity,

I/O throughput and latency, storage capacity, networking, and the scalability of the operating system

kernel. Oracle Database systems provide the ability to scale in several dimensions in response to

changing business needs without disrupting operations or requiring extensive IT administrative effort.

Examples include the following:

Scaling through density and advanced multithreadingDatabase growth, such as higher

transaction volumes or an increased number of records, can drive the need for greater processing

power and associated memory. The Oracle Solaris operating system and Oracles SPARC server line

have long led the industry at the high end of performance scaling. Oracle Solaris naturally takes

advantage of the advanced thread scale and memory density of the SPARC T4, SPARC T5, and

SPARC M6-32 servers in this solution. The SPARC T5 servers effectively double the number of

cores and threads from the previous generation of SPARC T4 servers, enabling the support of larger

workloads within the same form factor. The SPARC M6-32 system scales up to a maximum of 32

SPARC M6 processors and an unprecedented 3072 threads.

Reconfiguration of system resourcesVirtualization technologies and systems that support

reconfiguration make it easy for administrators to adjust resource allocations to match workloads.

Logical domains (configured with Oracle VM Server for SPARC) and Oracle Solaris Zones are

easily reconfigured to add or remove system resources on a domain or zone, helping virtual

environments to scale to meet growth needs. For logical domains, resources can be reconfigured

dynamically while database services continue to operate.

Scaling node countWhen CPU and memory slots on available servers are fully utilized,

additional processing capacity and memory can be added by deploying more cluster nodes in an

Oracle RAC configuration. This can be done live, avoiding any impact to the applications currently

in use.

Increasing I/O performance and reducing storage footprintUnique to Oracle storage,

Hybrid Columnar Compression technology is a technique for compressing data in a database block

before sending it to storage in the solution. As the name implies, Hybrid Columnar Compression

uses a hybrid approacha combination of both row and columnar methodsfor storing data.

Enterprises with existing Oracle Database instances and in-database archives for OLTP, data

warehousing, or mixed workloads can achieve 10x to 50x reductions in data volumes by using

Hybrid Columnar Compression on the Pillar Axiom 600 or Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance products.

Sites that implement Hybrid Columnar Compression have experienced as much as 3x to 5x

reductions in their overall storage footprints. Also, there can be significant performance gains

because data moved between the Oracle Database server and storage is compressed, so there is less

data to transmit.

Increasing I/O performance using Hybrid Storage Pools. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is

designed to recognize I/O patterns automatically, and it places data on the best storage media using

a Hybrid Storage Pool approach. This technique results in impressive gains in read and write

performance, taking advantage of low-latency solid-state drives (SSDs) that act as a cache between

the storage server and the hard disks in the storage array.


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Expanding storage capacity and throughputPillar Axiom 600 storage systems allow for

live expansion to grow both capacity and I/O performance without disrupting access to storage.

Unlike with many storage products, the Pillar Axiom 600 architecture allows organizations to scale

the system bandwidth and RAID processing power as well as traditional storage capacity without

disruption while the system is in use.

Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database provides tremendous flexibility throughout the

deployment lifecycle. Because the underlying SPARC servers offer advanced thread scale (with up to

3072 threads in the SPARC M6-32 system), the solution features dramatic scalability for efficient

consolidation and expansion of Oracle Database workloads over time.

Conclusion

Database systems are vital to the success of business and government entities of all sizes, which is why

IT departments strive to deliver database services with optimal performance and service levels. When

deploying Oracle Database, IT managers must take into account strategic business goals and three coreobjectivesreducing costs, lowering risk, and improving support for business operations. Oracle

Optimized Solution for Oracle Database is designed to help companies achieve these goals.

Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database is a fully tested, tuned, and documented architecture

for consolidating Oracle Database workloads onto a highly available, scalable, and secure

infrastructure. It brings together a complete hardware and software stack that is engineered for optimal

performance and mission-critical availability, helping IT organizations efficiently and cost-effectively

support fundamental business processes and data-driven operations.

Different configurations are available to match workload size, the databases to be consolidated, and

site requirements. The solution offers tight integration with Oracle Database, offering resilient

platforms for continuous data availability, even for the most demanding applications. And since thesolution stack is based on components that are all available from Oraclea trusted business partner

implementing the solution gives organizations a single touch point for purchasing, deployment,

services, training, and ongoing support.


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Table 1 summarizes key advantages and business benefits.

TABLE 1. ORACLE OPTIMIZED SOLUTION FOR ORACLE DATABASEKEY ADVANTAGES AND BUSINESS BENEFITS

BUSINESS BENEFIT HOW ORACLE OPTIMIZED SOLUTION ENABLES THE BUSINESS BENEFIT

Contain costs Built with the fastest servers for Oracle Database, the solution enables organizations to

operate Oracle Database with less hardware, fewer licenses, and a smaller footprint

resulting in lower overall costs.

Guidelines for a tested and tuned solution greatly simplify deployment and management.

The solution is administered with a consistent set of tools that work together to simplify

administration.

Reduce risk Solution components are designed and validated together, helping sites avoid compatibility

issues and unforeseen problems.

Patches and updates are tested on the full solution, not just on individual components.

Highly reliable systems, a high availability architecture, redundant hot-pluggablecomponents, and predictive self-healing capabilities reduce the risk of downtime.

Boost productivity and

business agility

Massive thread scale in the solutions SPARC serverssupports excellent scalability.

The solution provides integrated virtualization with fine-grained control of resources, down

to the CPU thread, memory, I/O bus, and network levels.

The ability to scale a database system by growing the Oracle RAC cluster without downtime

enables immediate upgrades, eliminating the need to wait for planned downtime.


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References

For more information, see the resources listed in Table 2.

TABLE 2. RESOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

WEB RESOURCES

Oracle Optimized Solution

for Oracle Database

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/oos/database/overview/index.html

Oracle Optimized Solution

for Enterprise Database

Cloud

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/oos/database/overview/index.html

WHITE PAPERS

How to Consolidate,Optimize, and Deploy

Oracle Database

Environments including

Multitenant with Flexible

Virtualized Services

(technical paper)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/hardware-solutions/o12-032-howto-db-throughput-avail-1592601.pdf

Benefits of Deploying a

Cloud to Deliver

Database as a Service

http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/edbc-cloud-sparc-supercluster-1899065.pdf

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How to Save Money, Reduce Risk, and

Increase Agility When Deploying Oracle

Database Systems

December 2013, Version 3

Authors: Ken Kutzer, Roger Bitar, and Larry

McIntosh

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