MT42The impact of high performance Oracle workloads on the evolution of the enterprise data center

Sam Lucido, Director of Technical Marketing for Databases

Expertise

Primary: Dell EMC

Oracle

Secondary: VMware vSphere

Cloud Computing

Sam Lucido, Director Workloads Tech MarketingSam.Lucido@Dell.com

Career Highlights• 7 yrs. EMC: Solutions Engineering, Tech Marketing

• 3 yrs. Oracle Consulting: Director of Managed Services

• 9 yrs. Oracle: Professional Services

• 3 yrs Dun & Bradstreet Software: Novell CNE

Bio

Passionate about an innovative world of technology where traditional enterprise applications

join the cloud, big data provides new insights, and new converged systems that accelerate

time-to-market for our customers. Enjoy learning, writing, speaking, Twitter, presentations,

and managing a great team. Twitter: @Sam_Lucido

www.sam-lucido.com

Excited about the opportunity to speak at Dell EMC

World! Instead of thinking about this as a session lets

make a connection and share ideas.

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Agendaand much more!

• Customer challenges

• Performance consolidation

• Data compression and copy services

• Less management and more enablement

• Summary

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Overall IT Budget

Changed Over the Past

Year

Source: Consolidate, Virtualize and Automate: 2016 IOUG IT Resources Survey – Figure 1

How has the IT budget changed over the past year?Majority report no change at all

23%

17%

12%

10%

7%

17%

15%

24%

20%

15%

9%

4%

13%

15%

No Change Increase up to5%

Increasse up to6% - 10%

Increase up to11% - 20%

Increase morethan 20%

Decrease Don'tknow/unsure

Over Past Year Next YearSelect all that apply

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Database management

activities taking the

greatestshare of

IT budget

MANAGEMENT ACTIVITES IMPACTING BUDGET

51% 51%

46%44%

28%

Maintaining uptime and availability

Applying upgrades, fixes, and patches

Ensuring security Performance tuning and diagnosis

Meetings for compliance/audits

Source: Consolidate, Virtualize and Automate: 2016 IOUG IT Resources Survey

Management activities impacting budgetLowering IT burden saves money and time

Select all that apply

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Database management

activities taking the

greatestshare of

IT budget

Maintaining uptime and availability

Applying upgrades, fixes, and patches

Ensuring security Performance tuning and diagnosis

Meetings for compliance/audits

Source: Consolidate, Virtualize and Automate: 2016 IOUG IT Resources Survey – Figure 5

Management activities changed over the last 3 yearsIT budget spent on ongoing database management activities

51% 44%43%41% 40%

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Increases in database management outpace budgetDBA teams are challenged with big increases in database activities & small budgets

Database Management

Activities

Increase in Activities$

Budget

Little to no change budget:

40% over past year

44% next year

Routine database management impacting 51% to 28% of budget

Increases of 51% to 40% over last 3 years

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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Strategies to reduce time and budgetIT wants to standardize, consolidate, automate, virtualize on Flash

Important

Extremely ImportantDeploy an all-flash

infrastructure

More virtualizationof databases

Database ordatacenter automation

Database ordatacenter consolidation

Source: Consolidate, Virtualize and Automate: 2016 IOUG IT Resources Survey

Standardizing ofIT infrastructure

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An example of Oracle licensing by core Enterprise Edition with no discounts

4Cores

22Cores

44Cores

$35,000Enterprise Edition Multitenant $17,500 per core $192,500 $335,000

Advanced Compression$11,500 per core $23,000 $126,500 $253,000

Oracle Support22% of licensing $12,760 $70,180 $140,360

TOTALS $70,760 $386,180 $778,360

Oracle Technology Global Price List

Oracle Processor Core Factor Table

No discount

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Balanced database system for licensing & performanceExample of how system design impacts cost and performance

High Database Licensing UtilizationPoor Performance

Moderate Database Licensing UtilizationGood Performance

Poor Database Licensing UtilizationGood Performance

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Oracle Assessment – It’s FREEUnderstanding database performance and sizing for new infrastructure

Oracle Automatic Workload

Repository (AWR) files are used to

generate analysis in a presentation

IOPS & RAID Configuration

Single block reads and writes

Oracle Host CPU Utilization

Everything Oracle at Dell EMC CommunityCustomer Facing Material AWR/Stats Pack

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-13949

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Do all flash arrays reduce Oracle licensing?All-flash arrays improve Oracle licensing utilization

True or False?

Using All-Flash Arrays

can decrease your

database licensing?

IO IO IO IO IO IO IO

Latency = Sub-millisecond

LESS wait time

Higher CPU Utilization

ALL-FLASH

IO wait IO wait IO wait

Latency = 5 ms MORE wait time

Non-FLASH

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Balanced database system for licensing & performanceExample of how system design impacts cost and performance

Consolidation is dependent upon

performance & capacity

Storage technologies drive capacity greater

capacity savings

Production Copies of production

Consolidation

Performance at

sub-millisecond

latency

Efficient use of

flash capacity

Production Copies of production

Data compression and

copy services

Compress

databases at

no cost

Provision

databases w/o

using capacity

Storage technologies have simplified

database management

Exchange complexity for

simplification of

operational management

Performance ConsolidationWith great performance comes great consolidation

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Dedicated database silos add complexityNot aligned with DBA goals of standardization, consolidation, automation

Oracle11g Oracle12c SQL Server SAP

Dedicated silos use to equal deterministic performance

ALL-FLASH changes the traditional performance rules

Dell EMC has lead the industry by

testing large mixed application

workloads in converged infrastructures

with the Vblock 540 using XtremIO and

the Vblock 740 using VMAX 450 All-

flash

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“BLOCKS”

VBLOCK

ENTERPRISE & SP DATA

CENTERS

5X MORE APPLICATIONS

DEPLOYED

4X FASTER TIME TO MARKET FOR

NEW SERVICES

96% REDUCTION

IN DOWNTIME

41% LESS TIME ON KEEPING THE

LIGHTS ON

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Consolidation of 25 databases

Converged infrastructure consolidation“Mixed Workloads” on All-Flash converged infrastructure

Production environmentMicrosoft SQL Server 2014

• OLTP scenario with stock trading application

• OLAP scenario for analysis and reporting

Oracle Database (11g and 12g)

• DSS Workload

• OLTP Application using Oracle Benchmark tool

SAP ECC 6.0 hosted on Oracle

• Simulated sell-from stock scenario

Non-production25 Total Copies

• 10 Oracle

• 10 Microsoft

• 5 SAP

VBLOCK SYSTEM 540ALL FLASH WITH EMC XTREMIO

(FOUR 10 TB X-BRICKS®)

VCE Solutions for Mixed Enterprise Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Database performance and consolidationA single platform for all database workloads

VMware & Storage Performance Consolidation

With all production and non-production workloads running simultaneously!

76,000

68,000

59,000

17,000

12c 11g 2014 ECC 6.0

225,000TOTAL

IOPS

< 1MSREADS

< 2MSWRITES

VCE Solutions for Mixed Enterprise Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Cost per IOPS decreases with consolidation

1.00

0.73

0.620.56

0.00

0.20

0.40

0.60

0.80

1.00

1.20

Baseline Baseline + threeVMs

Baseline + sixVMs

Baseline + nineVMw

Better value with more IOPS(Lower is better)

Norm

aliz

ed c

ost/IO

PS

Savings of

43%Per IO w/three copies of our database workloads

Achieve greater return

on investments by

consolidating more

databases at

sub-millisecond

latencies

Principled Technologies 3rd Party Test Report: EMC XtremIO Storage Array 4.0 and Vmware

vSphere6.0: Scaling Mixed-Database Workloads

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Consolidation of 25 databases

Converged infrastructure Vblock 740 consolidation“Mixed Workloads” on All-Flash converged infrastructure

Production environmentMicrosoft SQL Server 2014

• OLTP scenario with stock trading application

• OLAP scenario for analysis and reporting

Oracle Database (12g)

• DSS Workload

• OLTP Application using Oracle Benchmark tool

SAP ECC 6.0 hosted on Oracle

• Simulated sell-from stock scenario

Non-production25 Total Copies

• 10 Oracle

• 10 Microsoft

• 5 SAP

VBLOCK SYSTEM 740ALL FLASH WITH EMC VMAX ALL-

FLASH

(FOUR 4 V-BRICKS)

VCE Solution Enterprise for Mixed Application Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Database performance and consolidationVblock 740 a single platform for all database workloads

SCENARIO 5: ALL WORKLOADS RUNNING

With all production and non-production workloads running simultaneously!

109,000

IOPS

12c

255,000TOTAL

IOPS

< 1.1MSREADS

< 1.0MSWRITES

< 1.0MSREDO

WRITES

100%

10.1%

WRITES

READS

64%

REDO

WRITES

VMAX CACHE HIT PERCENTAGE

VCE Solution Enterprise for Mixed Application Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Database performance and consolidationVblock 740 a single platform for all database workloads

SCENARIO 5: ALL WORKLOADS RUNNING

With all production and non-production workloads running simultaneously!

255,000TOTAL

IOPS

< 1.1MSREADS

< .90MSWRITES

< 1.0MSTRANSACTION LOG WRITES

99%

23.4%

WRITES

READS

75%

TRANSACTION

LOG

WRITES

VMAX CACHE HIT PERCENTAGE

79,800

IOPS

2014

VCE Solution Enterprise for Mixed Application Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Database performance and consolidationVblock 740 a single platform for all database workloads

SCENARIO 5: ALL WORKLOADS RUNNING

With all production and non-production workloads running simultaneously!

71,700

IOPS

255,000TOTAL

IOPS

< 1.4MSREADS

< .99MSWRITES

< .88MSREDO LOG

WRITES

98%

12.2%

WRITES

READS

99%

VMAX CACHE HIT PERCENTAGE

REDO

WRITES

ECC 6.0

VCE Solution Enterprise for Mixed Application Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Database performance and consolidationVblock 740 a single platform for all database workloads

SCENARIO 5: ALL WORKLOADS RUNNING

With all production and non-production workloads running simultaneously!

71,700

IOPS

255,000TOTAL

IOPS

< 1.4MSREADS

< .99MSWRITES

< .88MSREDO LOG

WRITES

VMAX CACHE HIT PERCENTAGE

ECC 6.0

79,800

IOPS

2014

109,000

IOPS

12c

VCE Solution Enterprise for Mixed Application Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

Data compression and copy services

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Compression & deduplication / thin snapshots

INLINE DATA COMPRESSION

INLINE DATA DEDUPLICATION

THIN SNAPSHOTS

Same results / different implementations

4 TB 2 TB

compression

Storage compression is

transparent to databases

2 TB 0 TB0 TB 0 TB 0 TB

Storage deduplication & thin snapshots are

transparent to databases

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Compression and deduplicationTraditional storage complexities versus Dell EMC all-flash XtremIO

Traditional storage

complexities

Choice of RAID

determines:

• Performance

• Capacity

• Protection

Too complex and

time wasted

planning!

Too many

trade-offs!

Automatic space

savings with no

complexities!

Flash is always

fast!

Sub-millisecond

latencies

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Vblock 540 database capacity savingsDeduplication, Compression, and Thin Provisioning

Before and after all the benchmarking has been completed

Capacity savings provides consolidation and cost savings!

A savings of 177 TB in volume capacity

Only 1.2TB of

additional Physical Capacity

Physical Capacity

Used

62.9TB

239TB

Volume Capacity

Used

8.8TB 10TB

Before After Before After

VCE Solutions for Mixed Enterprise Workloads on the Vblock 540 Solution Guide

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Cost per GB decreases with consolidation

Norm

aliz

ed c

ost/lo

gic

al

GB

Savings of

73%Per logical GB w/three

database copies

Achieve greater return

on investments by

consolidating more

databases with less

physical space

Principled Technologies 3rd Party Test Report: EMC XtremIO Storage Array 4.0 and Vmware

vSphere6.0: Scaling Mixed-Database Workloads

1.00

0.46

0.35

0.27

0.00

0.20

0.40

0.60

0.80

1.00

1.20

Baseline Baseline + threeVMs

Baseline + sixVMs

Baseline + nineVMs

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Big savings using Dell EMC storage compression!Enterprise Edition with no discounts

$35,000Enterprise Edition Multitenant $17,500 per core $192,500 $335,000

Advanced Compression$11,500 per core Not required Not required Not required

Oracle Support22% of licensing $7,700 $43,350 $84,700

NEW TOTALS $42,700 $234,850 $469,700

Oracle Technology Global Price List

Oracle Processor Core Factor Table

No discount

4Cores

22Cores

44Cores

$70,760 $386,180 $778,360OLD TOTALS

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BAILLIE GIFFORD: DEV/TEST CONSOLIDATIONCREATE COPIES ON DEMAND WITHOUT LIMITATIONS

02 32x 30

BEFORE COPYDue to performance concerns each copy was a full

clone of production data

DAYS DATA SIZE DAYS OLD

Investment Firm

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BAILLIE GIFFORD: DEV/TESTCREATE SAVINGS AND AGILITY FOR THE CUSTOMER

AFTER COPYXtremIO saves tremendous amount of time,

capacity and cost to the customer

1+D30’ 0

02 32x 30DAYS OLD DATA SIZE DAYS

Investment Firm

IMMEDIATE COPIES FROM PRODUCTION

ONLY UNIQUE WRITES CONSUME

CAPACITY

ENTIRE TEST AND DEVELOPMENT IN

MINUTES

Less management, more enablement

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Complexities NOT requiredSimplify architecture and operational management

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Unifies database management for DBAs

DBAs control snapshots, replication,

and protection

DBAs can easily repurpose copies of

production databases

APPSYNC unifies management for DBAsAccess provisioning and protection features

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ON-DEMAND

Provision Databases In

Seconds

SCHEDULED

Unattended Automated

EXPIRERemoval Of Databases

And Prevention Of

Sprawl

Increase Efficiencies

Reduce

Complexity

Increase

Agility

Centralized

Management

Alert Notification

System

Customizable

For Databases

Recover Storage Capacity

APPSYNC copy data managementSingle-click automation for DBAs

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ORACLE ENTERPRISE MANAGER 12C PLUG-IN FROM DELL EMC

It’s FREE!

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• EMC Storage and Oracle Database centralized dashboards

• EMC Storage performance metrics– Metrics on Front End Director, Thin

Pools and Storage Resource Pools

– Initiator Groups, Data Protection Groups

• Focused user interface for easy-

to-see metric trends and data analysis

• Target configuration from the plug-in interface for simple target

setup

• Root cause analysis through the association of storage volumes to Oracle Databases

• OEM incidents and problems integration

• Associated Oracle Database and ASM Hierarchy

• Database and storage target availability

• Metric storage within the Oracle Management Repository (OMR) for

historical analysis

Dell EMC storage plug-in featuresKey features of the Dell EMC storage plug-in

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STREAMLINED USER INTERFACE FOR RAPID DATA ANALYSIS

• Three unique targets for intelligent organization of metrics

• Interchangeable metric graphs to quickly view historic data

• Selectable timeframes to view metric trends over different periods of time

• Oracle Database, Oracle ASM, host, and EMC Storage Hierarchy to visualize system associations

User InterfaceGraphical and easy to use

Summary

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Dell EMC strategies to reduce time and budgetIT can standardize, consolidate, automate, virtualize on Flash

Standardization Automation Consolidation Virtualization All-Flash

Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAPon one converged infrastructure

Unified DBA

management

Unified Storage

management

Optimized

performance

APPSYNC

OEM 12c

plug-in

Simplicity of

provisioning

Deduplication

thin snapshots

Compression

All-Flash

performance

VMware

vSphere

Server

consolidation

Agility and

flexibility

Sub-millisecond

latencies

High

IOPS

Simplicity

of use

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Dell EMC All-Flash reduces DBA management activitiesDBA teams benefit from automation, consolidation, performance and more

Database Management

Activities

Decrease in Activities

$Budget

Databases on all-flash means greater consolidation and storage savings

Standardization on all-flash simplifies database

management

Automation increases efficiency & accuracy

plus saves time

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