VIRT1625BU Streamlining Oracle on the SDDC or distribution · VMware vSphere –Compute...

Amanda BlevinsSudhir Balasubramanian

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Streamlining Oracle on the SDDC

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Disclaimer

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Disclaimer

• This session does not address Oracle Licensing on VMware SDDC

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Agenda

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1 Key Takeaways

2 Introduction to SDDC

3Characteristics of Business Critical Application

(BCA) workloads

4 Software-Defined Infrastructure

5 High Availability and Disaster Recovery

6 Database Deployment with vRealize Automation

7 Conclusion

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Key Takeaways

• Stringent requirements of BCA workloads

• Challenges associated with meeting the above requirements

• How VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) helps BCA workloads

– High performance

– Resiliency and High Availability

– Security

– Performance and Capacity Management

– Automation

– Cost Transparency

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VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)



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Introducing the Software-Defined Data Center




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Characteristics of Business Critical Application (BCA) Workloads



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BCA Requirements

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• Must be highly available

• Must be resilient and redundant

• MTBF must be very high

Availability

Performance

Recoverability

Scalability

Security

• Timely process completion is critical

• Must avoid bottleneck

• RPO, RTO, MTD, WRT must all be very low

• Recovery plans must be verifiable and repeatable

• Should be adaptive and grow with littlereconfiguration effort

• Security from Internal & External attacks and be complaint with industry standard security practices




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Design Methodology – Overview

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Requirements Gathering

Selling the Project to Stakeholders

DB Workload Measurement

Understanding Current Environment Constraints

Database Migration Strategies

Support & Licensing

Design Considerations for Sizing

Backup and Recovery

High Availability / Disaster Recovery

Monitoring & Tuning

Design Methodology is the same as Oracle on Bare Metal




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Benefits of Oracle Databases on VMware

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Performance

Rapid Provisioning

▪ I/O is not an issue

▪ Scale up and out

▪ Newer hardware can increase performance

▪ Streamline activation, deployment, and validation of servers

▪ Avoid manual configuration errors

Server Consolidation

▪ Fully utilize hardware

▪ Maintain application isolation

▪ Scale dynamically and right-size infrastructure

Workload Management

Business Continuity

High Availability

▪ VMware vSphere® vMotion®, VMware vSphere High Availability (HA), VMware vSphere®

Fault Tolerance (FT), VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

▪ Without clustering or RAC

▪ VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™

▪ Hardware reduction at failover site

▪ Comprehensive testing of DR solution

▪ Zero downtime maintenance

▪ Migrate live databases




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Software-Defined Infrastructure



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VMware vSphere – Compute Virtualization

• VMware HA

– Detects operating system and hardware failures

– Automatically restarts failed database virtual machine

– Provides a simple and reliable first line of defense for all databases

• VMware vMotion

– Enables live migration of database virtual machines from one physical server to another without service interruption

– Can reduce virtual machine planned downtime

– Perform host maintenance any time of the day

• VMware DRS

– Monitors state of virtual machine resource usage

– Can automatically and intelligently locate virtual machine

– Directs compute resources where needed

– Maintains database response time and SLAs




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vSphere 6.5 Features for Business Critical Applications (BCA)

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• Proactive HA & Orchestrated VM Restart using HA

• Network-aware DRS

• Increased Datastore & Path limit

• 512e drive support

• VMFS6 & SESparse

• Virtual Volumes Replication with VASA 3.0

• Automatic Space Reclamation (UNMAP)

• Virtual Hardware 13 (VMs 6TB memory maximum)

• Virtual NVMe

• Para-Virtualized RDMA (PVRDMA)

• Encrypted vMotion

• VM-level Encryption




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VMware vSAN

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• Software-defined storage optimized for VMs

• Hypervisor-converged architecture (HCI)

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools local HDD/SSD into a single shared datastore

• Delivers enterprise-level scalability and performance

• Managed through per-VM storage policies

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

• Distributed, Scale-out Architecture

• Fully Integrated with vSphere platform

Overview

vSAN Datastore

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vSphere + vSAN

VM VM VMVM VM VM

STO1167BU Oracle on HCI Steroids: A Complete End-to-End Solution for Business-Critical Oracle Workloads on VMware vSAN




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Oracle 12c Data Warehousing on vSAN All Flash

All-Flash Virtual SAN datastore

Cache SSD Capacity SSD Cache SSD Capacity SSD Cache SSD Capacity SSD Cache SSD Capacity SSD

vSphere + All-Flash Virtual SAN Cluster

VirtualMachine

DB

VirtualMachine

DB

VirtualMachine

DB

VirtualMachine

DB

Deduplication &

Compression

Erasure Coding

(RAID 5)

Software

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Network and security services now in the hypervisor

Switching

Routing Firewalling/ACLs

Load balancing

East-west firewalling

High throughput rates

Hardware independent

The Next-generation Networking Model




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Cross-VC NSX Multi Site

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Universal Distributed Logical RouterPrimaryControl VM

E1

VC A with NSX Manager (Primary)

Route Updates with Locale ID

Site APhysical Routers

Universal Transit VXLAN Uplink A

Site A

NSX EdgeServices GW

VC B with NSX Manager (Secondary)

Route Updateswith Locale ID

E8 E1

Site BPhysical Routers

Universal Transit VXLAN Uplink B

E8

SecondaryControl VM

Route Updateswith Locale ID

UCC

UniversalLogical Switches

Site B

NSX EdgeServices GW

VMworld 2016 – VIRT7575 Architecting NSX with Business Critical Applications for Security, Automation and Business Continuity (2016 VMworld US and EMEA)




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High Availability and Disaster Recovery



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Data Centers AnywhereEnabling Oracle and other applications to exist between data centers for disaster recovery or

pooling of data center resources

Application ContinuityDisaster Recovery | Multi DC Pooling | Cross Cloud



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VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Centralized recovery plans for 1000’s of VMs

• Non-disruptive recovery testing

• Automated DR workflows

• Integrated with the VMware product stack

• Eliminates complexity and risk of manual

processes

• Enables fast and highly predictable RTOs

• Provides policy-driven DR control for any

virtualized app

vSphere

vCenter ServerSite Recovery

ManagervCenter Server

Site Recovery

Manager

vSphere

Production Site Recovery Site

Servers ServersArray-based

replication

vSphere

Replication




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SRM with Application and Oracle Database with Oracle Data Guard

• Oracle Primary DB at Site A and Standby DB at Site B with Data Guard

• Application connected to Primary DB at Site A

• Site A Down – Application VMs replicated to Site B using vSphere replication

• Switch over Oracle Standby to Primary using SRM Call out Script from Application VM at Site B

• Connect/Resume application to Oracle Database in site B




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Oracle RAC on VMware vSphere & vSAN – RAC on RAC

• Why RAC

– High Availability

• Rolling Patch Upgrades

• Workload Mobility & Balancing

• RAC on vSphere

– Greater uptime than RAC on physical

• vSphere HA and RAC are complimentary technologies

• Provisioning

– New RAC nodes provisioned in minutes rather than hours

Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 onwards Supported on VMware – Metalink 249212.1




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Database Deployment with vRealize Automation



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Technical Reasons for Oracle DBaaS Using Automation

• Manual Deployment of Oracle RAC

– Too complicated – lots of moving parts

– Co-ordination between DBA and Infrastructure teams

– Requires intimate RAC knowledge

– Requires DBA involvement for every RAC deployment

• Deploy Oracle Stand-Alone Databases Using the SDDC Instead




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Using vRealize Automation for Oracle Standalone / RAC

• Define Templates of Oracle DB VMs in the Self-service Catalog

• Self-service Provisioning from the Catalog

• Provisioning clones of Single Instance Databases or RAC

– Use Data Masking for Test / Dev / QA

• Provides Metering and Reporting

• Decommission a DB VM or RAC




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Oracle RAC using vRA &vRO –Deployment flow Overview

One VM is cloned for each node

Clone from template

Disks created on primary node and added to secondary nodes

Add controllers & shared disks

User requests RAC service

Request

Oracle RAC cluster

Blueprint deploys each component

RAC cluster composite blueprint

• Request vRA blueprint• Pass specs• Set Event Broker

• Output vRA RAC Cluster object

Create Oracle RAC cluster

Set each node with custom properties• VM name• IP Settings

Update network custom properties

• Update VM hardware for clustering

• Record VM node info into cluster object

Set VM config & add node to cluster

• Set disk cfg in guest• Run OS scripts• Copy SSH keys• Run cluster & DB

installation scripts

Run guest scripts

Event Broker

XaaS comp 1

XaasComp 2

vSphere comp

• OS settings• Install Grid Infrastructure• Install RDBMS• Create Cluster DB• Import Data into DB

Shell scripts In template

vRealizeAutomation

vRealize Orchestrator

vCenter

Guest Operating System




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Request Oracle RAC from the vRealize Automation Catalog –Step 1




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Click Submit and you have a fully functional 2 Node Oracle RAC Cluster




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Database Performance and Capacity Analytics Using vRealize Operations



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Consistent Operations Management Across the SDDC

Manage the entire Software Defined Datacenter

** Management Packs for Storage / Network / Cloud **

• SDDC Storage: Management Pack for Storage Devices

• vSAN

• FC / FCoE / iSCSI / NFS support

• SDDC Network: NSX for vSphere Management Pack

• Also Available• Cisco UCS

• Citrix Xen Desktop

• NetApp

• Oracle OEM

• SAP

• SQL Server

Technical Overview

VSAN

SDDC Management

NSX

vCloud Air

Internet




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Pre-Configured Dashboards for Oracle

*Blue Medora Adapter for Oracle




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Custom Dashboard for Troubleshooting Performance

DB shows increase

in physical reads

DB blocks per txn increases more

blocks read into memory per SQL query




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Custom Dashboard for Troubleshooting Performance




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Conclusion



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The Software-Defined Data Center is the Best Platform for Oracle Workloads




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Top 6 Reasons for Oracle on the SDDC

• High performance

• Resiliency and High Availability

• Security

• Performance and Capacity Management

• Automation

• Cost Transparency




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Useful Collateral



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Oracle on VMware Collateral – One Stop Shop

https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2017/01/oracle-vmware-collateral-one-stop-shop.html




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Let Us Know Your Experiences!Sudhir @vracdbaAmanda @AmandaBlev



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Sudhir Balasubramanian

• 20+ years Oracle hands on experience as an Oracle DBA / Architect, Oracle RAC/Data Guard Expert, Experienced in EMC SAN Technologies

• VMware [2012-] Staff Solution Architect – Oracle

• Principal Oracle DBA/Oracle Architect (1995 – 2011)

• VMware VCA – Cloud ,VMware vBCA Specialist, VMware vExpert, Member of the CTO Ambassador Program

• Co-Author of “Virtualize Oracle Business Critical Databases”

• Recognized Speaker@ Oracle Open World, IOUG, VMworld, VMware Partner Exchange, EMC World, EMC Oracle Summit and Webinars

• Industry recognized expert in Oracle Virtualization technologies

• Blog:

– https://blogs.vmware.com/apps, http://vracdba.com

• Twitter: @vracdba




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Amanda Blevins

• 20+ Years Technology Experience in Many Industries

• Began in PC Repair, Moved into Server and Storage Administration, Technical Infrastructure Architecture, and then Enterprise Architecture

• Joined VMware in April 2010 as a Senior Systems Engineer

• First VMware Female Principal Sales Engineer in 2015

• First VMware Female Chief Technologist in 2016

• Twitter: @AmandaBlev

• Blogs:

– www.amandablevins.com– https://octo.vmware.com/– https://octo.vmware.com/author/ctoa/

• LinkedIn:

– https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandablevins/




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