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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

All 2013 content now on-line with

free VMworld account

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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 SRM Switchover Video

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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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