Realize the Benefits of a Database Cloud service

Pradeep Natarajan @pradeepnataraIBM Webcast 10 August, 2017

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Agenda

§ Cloud Economics

§ Business Requirements

§ How does IBM Informix on Cloud fit into existing IT investments?

§ Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud

§ What is IBM Informix on Cloud

§ Using IBM Informix on Cloud

§ Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition

§ Backup to cloud object store

§ Questions & Feedback

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Cloud Agility Accelerates Innovation-Outthink The Economics

Development InfrastructurePublic Cloud

Hosted Private Cloud

Dedicated Environment

• Simplified development process• Portable and collaborative• Reimagine your business

• Application development for apps with mission critical data

• Business process automation, secured

More Productivity

Greater Flexibility

Better Economics

Continuous Innovation

Risk Mitigation

Hybrid Cloud End Game for Most Enterprises

• Business process applications stay intact• Managed / new applications on the cloud• Ubiquitous data management software

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Business RequirementHow can I reduce my ongoing business cost?

How can I analyze the data in IoT and in the edge?

How do I reduce time to market?

Desired outcome

§ Informix on Cloud is aimed for enterprise who are wanting to innovate to save costs by choosing a cloud deployment for their workloads but do not want to compromise on enterprise level security and performance, and need a robust and proven technology choice.

• IT infrastructure platform cost is the biggest recurring cost for enterprises

• On-prem RDBMs represents one of the most expensive recurring expenses for enterprise IT organizations.

• It is necessary to innovate and to be able to innovate you look at different deployment options iecloud

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IBM Informix on Cloud - Key Benefits

• Accelerates deploymentInformix on Cloud will accelerate and simplify you cloud deployments and take advantage of the high performance Informix engine that integrates Time Series, Spatial, NoSQL and SQL data together.

• Lower your total cost of ownershipLower your cost and complexity on infrastructure maintenance, software licensing, and support; choose the size you need and pay a monthly subscription

• Enterprise securityInformix on Cloud Offers native encryption with all configurations, you are in control of your data at rest and in flight.

• Analytics for IoT SolutionEasy replication of your time series and other data from the edge into the IBM Informix on Cloud for performing deeper analytics, including predictive analytics.

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• Enterprise performance available in the cloud (without the cost, complexity and risk of managing your own infrastructure)

• Bring Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) economics to your data• Maintain control, and you determine the performance, security, and availability needs for

your business

How can IBM Informix on Cloud help me?

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§ As a CTO, I need to be able to quickly and inexpensively add additional development and test instances of Informix to support our product development and release goals.

§ As a software engineer, I need another large instance of an Informix database for stress testing our new application. None of our current test environments are large enough to effectively test this application.

§ As a manager, I want my team to try the latest version of Informix without impacting any of my current systems and without going through a long budget approval process.

§ As a developer, I want to try out new features in Informix like NoSQL and the REST API, but I currently don’t have access to a version with these features.

§ As a DBA, I want to experiment with Informix’s clustering, replication, and sharding technologies to see how they might help my business.

Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud

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What is IBM Informix on Cloud

The latest version of IBM InformixAdvanced Enterprise Edition,on a machine in a SoftLayer data center,provisioned on-demand,billed monthly,accessible on the Internet,dedicated to you,entirely under your control.

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Ready to Order?

I know what I need IBM Sales, help me!

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Price/month: $1,250 $2,200 $4,000 $8,000

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Live Demo

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Decisions & Responsibilities

§ What are my choices?- Size- DataCenter, e.g Dallas, London, Sydney- Number of machines with Informix- Self-serve (immediate provisioning) or IBM Sales

§ You don’t get a choice about the edition, version of Informix, OS, etc.

§ What is IBM responsible for? Fulfilling the order; IBM provides you with an account on Bluemix if necessary, obtains the machine from SoftLayer, installs and configures Informix, and makes the machine accessible to you.

§ What am I, IBM’s customer, responsible for? All administration of the OS, network, Informix, database, etc.Installing, configuring, and/or running applications, managing a schema, loading data, etc.You have complete control and flexibility to use the system to serve your business needs.

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Documentation in Bluemix

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Log in for the first time

§ When logging into the machine for the first time, you will immediately be required to change your password.

§ You’re the only one that knows the password now. You have complete control over the system.§ IBM support cannot log in.

$ ssh root@1.2.3.456root@1.2.3.456's password: You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)Changing password for root.(current) UNIX password: New password: Retype new password: [root@myinformixhost ~]#

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Administration

§ You have full power and responsibility to administer the machine.

§ Administer the machine just like you do machines in your current data center/office. This includes:- Updating the Operating System- Backing up the machine and the Informix databases- Installing and/or updating any software- Configuring the firewall- Managing OS user accounts- Upgrading Informix version- Transferring data to/from the system- Configuring clients to connect to Informix- Changing Informix ONCONFIG settings, adding db/sbspaces, etc.

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Initial Configuration of Machine

§ We’ve made some decisions about the initial configuration of the OS, Informix, etc. This is your machine, so change whatever you like to fit the needs of your business.

§ Informix version: 12.10.FC9AEEEvery order gets the latest available Informix release.

§ OS: CentOS 7

§ File system:- / for OS- /data for dbspaces, logs, etc.

§ OS accounts:- root, only customer knows password- informix, initially configured without a password

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Initial Configuration of Machine

§ Product locations- $INFORMIXDIR /home/Informix/server- WL /opt/ibm/wire_listener- IWA /opt/ibm/iwa Only .tar; not configured

§ Firewall à la iptables allows traffic:- SSH (22)- SQLI over SSL (9089)- DRDA over SSL (9091)- Mongo over SSL (27018)- REST over SSL aka HTTPS (443)

§ Informix and Wire Listener configured with a self-signed certificate§ Informix also listens for non-SSL traffic:

- SQLI (9088)- DRDA (9090)- Mongo (27017)- REST, aka HTTP (80)

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Configuring Remote Client Connectivity

§ All traffic goes over the Internet – encryption (SSL) recommended§ Documentation for using SSL with SQLI, DRDA, Mongo, and REST at Bluemix

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All the Good Stuff We Love About Informix

§ Transaction processing speed machine§ Low administration § Full spectrum of replication solutions

- Cluster with three secondary types- Enterprise Replication

§ TimeSeries for efficient storage and querying of sensor data§ Accelerate queries with in-memory, columnar IWA§ REST API§ NoSQL functionality that developers love

- JSON data- MongoDB client compatibility

§ Scalability with sharding§ Data Security – at rest and in motion

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IBM Informix on Cloud - Still Not Convinced?

§ No capital expense for hardware- Monthly charge; pay only for what you use;

cancel any time§ Informix software support included

- No additional fee for support§ Entitlement and software license

- What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)- No license metrics to track- No worries about license compliance

§ More power – Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition

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Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition

§ Storage optimization (compression) included- For purchase, add-on Informix feature in all

editions except AEE- Lossless compression reduces the space

occupied by a row of data

§ Informix Warehouse Accelerator- /opt/ibm/iwa- Product is included as .tar file- Setup and configuration required

TCP/IP

Bulk Loader

SQL Queries (from apps)

Informix Warehouse Accelerator

Compressed DB partition

QueryProcessor

Data Warehouse

Informix SQL

Query Router Results

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Backup to Cloud Object Store

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Cloud Backups using On-Bar

• It is possible to use STDIO devices to take direct backups from On-Bar to a Cloud Provider

• The feature is implemented in the Primary Storage Manager (PSM)

• It is NOT possible to use this if you use a third party storage manager

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STDIO devices

• A new type of device called “STDIO device” was implemented in PSM• This new device type will send the backup stream data or get the restore stream data from a

separate process (ie sftp)• Communication to/from this process will occur using the standard input/standard output of that

process, very similar to use a pipe

Archive APIIDS curl,

sftp, oraws-cli

OBJECT STORAGE

On-

Bar

PSM

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Create STDIO device

onpsm -D -add /home/shawn/mycurl -t STDIO--stdio_warg "BACKUP @obj_name1@.@obj_id@.@obj_part@"

--stdio_rarg "RESTORE @obj_name1@.@obj_id@.@obj_part@"

--stdio_darg "DELETE @obj_name1@.@obj_id@.@obj_part@"

--max_part_size <size in KB>

• Notice the type “STDIO”• Notice the device path is a path to an executable, usually a shell script that will take/retrieve the

data• We have to provide the arguments that we will use to invoke the program for backup (send

data), restore (get data) and delete (erase data)

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Getting help

§ View documentation on Bluemixhttps://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/InformixOnCloud/InformixOnCloud.html

§ Use the forums- Stack Overflow – tags “informixoncloud” and “bluemix”http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=informixoncloud+bluemix- IBM developerWorks dW Answers – tags “informixoncloud” and “bluemix”https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/bluemix/

§ Open a Bluemix ticket

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Getting help

§ Have a problem with Informix (e.g. AF)?Have a problem with physical infrastructure (e.g. disk, memory, network)?

Open a Bluemix ticket

§ Different than opening a PMR, if you are familiar with that process

§ SLAshttp://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/bm-6605-08

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§ As a CTO, I need to deploy our solution in a distant geography we’ve never done business in before.

§ As a project manager, I need to have an Informix database environment that both my developers and individual beta customers can easily access. My developers are creating a Proof of Concept and my customer will access it.

§ As a DBA, I need to have an offsite copy of our Informix database for the purpose of disaster recovery.

§ As an architect, I want to prototype Informix Warehouse Accelerator with my application as my customers are asking for performance improvements on various queries in our application. With our Workgroup Edition, I don’t have access to IWA.

Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud continued

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Want something more? Something different?

Do you want something else from this IBM offering? Please give us your feedback!

Milind Tamaskar tamaskar@us.ibm.com

For example:§ Can I order a multi-machine cluster?§ Can IBM help me transfer data to and from the machine using e.g. Aspera?§ I’d like IBM to be responsible for backing up the Informix server.§ I wish this would integrate with technology xyz.

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Learn more

§ Documentation in the Bluemix catalog https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/InformixOnCloud/InformixOnCloud.html

§ Videoshttp://ibm.biz/informix-learning

§ IBM Informix on Cloud Solution Briefhttps://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=IMS14505USEN&

§ Bloor White paper: IBM Informix on Cloudhttps://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=IMW14922USEN&

§ Milind Tamaskar tamaskar@us.ibm.com

General Questions?

§ Through Bluemix @ www.bluemix.net§ Contact your local IBM representative, or your IBM Business Partner.

Order today

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Pradeep Natarajan @pradeepnatara