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© 2014 House of Brick Technologies, LLC
GE Appliances & Lighting: Making DR Invisible to
Oracle on VMware Workloads
Dave Welch – CTO, Chief Evangelist
September 29, 2014
Hosted by Cisco
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House of Brick
Founded in 1998
Grandfather solution
provider of Oracle VBCA
(Q1 2006)
Key Services
VBCA
Replatforming, Data Migration
Managed Services
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GE Appliances & Lighting - Louisville, KY
Oldest Dow
component
100+ year history
$8B division of GE
Global footprint
More than 27,000 employees in over
100 countries
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GE: A History of Innovation
First commercial
UNIVAC:
1954 - Appliance Park
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GE’s IT History
Custom-developed apps
Wide ranging languages (Cobol, VB, Java, etc.)
Complex hardware & OS stack
(VAX, MVS, HP/UX, Solaris, Windows, AS/400)
Limited DR
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GE: Recent IT History
DR-enabled apps drilled at
the app level
Limited formal SLAs
VMware Infrastructure
history: Tier 3 & 4
Passive/Active clusters:
HP/UX and Solaris HA
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GE: 2009 Data Center Refresh
128 cabinets, 18-24kw per
rack
500-1000 vm’s per rack
Certified LEED Platinum DC -
U.S. Green Building Council
Uptime Institute Tier-3
99.982% availability
YouTube:
http://bit.ly/10YEHlu
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GE: Initiatives
$1B investment in American
manufacturing
GE Appliances “ERP+”: Oracle
E-Business Suite
Oracle RAC->1 inst,
vSphere, 200+ nodes, Live
July, 2012
GE Lighting “Project Circuit”:
SAP
Oracle RAC->1 inst,
vSphere, 50+ node
deployment, Live Q3 2014
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GE: Generic ERP Infrastructure
Cisco UCS
NetApp, Hitachi
Atomic workloads
DynamicOps -> VCAC
Heterogeneous
hypervisor support
Post-deployment
automation
vCenter Operations
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GE’s Goal: 100% DR
Site Recovery Manager
Cisco OTV – Layer 2 mobility
Volume based design
Cash play: storage
capacity, network
bandwidth
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Disaster Recovery Evolution
Physical DR
Virtual DR / IP Mobility
Dual drill IPs
Oracle Data Guard
Clipboards
Marginal coverage
Full regression test
Low reliability
Virtual shroud
Array replication
Dual drill IPs
~100% reliability
On demand testing
Full regression test
? App reconfig
Cisco OTV
Check for services
up
Virtual shroud
Array replication
~100% reliability
Virtual DR
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GE SRM Switchover
Alternate
Production
Facility
Production DC
1. Pre-synchronize Storage
2. Shutdown VMs at Protected
Site
3. Resume VMs Suspended by
Previous Recovery
4. Prompt: NAS Manual
SHUTDOWN Alert
5. Restore hosts from standby
6. Prepare Protected Site VMs for
Migration
7. Synchronize Storage
8. Suspend Non-critical VMs at Recovery Site
9. Change Recovery Site Storage to Writeable
10. Prompt: NAS Manual STARTUP
Alert
11. Power On Priority 1 VMs
12. Power On Priority 2 VMs
13. Power On Priority 3 VMs
14. Power On Priority 4 VMs
15. Power On Priority 5 VMs
16. Prompt: Verify Application is working
1,000 miles
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GE: OTV vs. LISP
OTV: resiliency option
Application-agnostic =
less configuration
“Tromboning” threat
LISP: redundancy option
Per-application
configuration
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GE: Active/Active DR Components
Authentication (AD, DNS)
vSphere
? CA SiteMinder
? Web front-ends
? SOA (Oracle ESB, BPEL)
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Contact
Dave Welch
dwelch@houseofbrick.com
c: 402.203.0249
www.houseofbrick.com
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