Review this presentation to learn how EnterpriseDB’s RemoteDBA services can support your database infrastructure, and also discover a few tips and tricks to overcoming some of the obstacles you may be facing today. Contact sales@enterprisedb.com for a personal overview.

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Tapping Into New Postgres
Resources with Remote DBAs
• David Thomas | 3.27.2014

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• EDB and Me
• Key Areas for Remote DBA
• Monitoring
• Backups
• Performance Tuning
• Security Audits
• Upgrades
• Capacity Planning
• EDB Resources
Agenda

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Introduction: EDB & Me (David)

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POSTGRES
innovation
ENTERPRISE
reliability
24/7
support
Services
& training
Enterprise-class
features & tools
Indemnification
Product
road-map
Control
Thousands
of developers
Fast
development
cycles
Low cost
No vendor
lock-in
Advanced
features
Enabling commercial
adoption of Postgres

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Best Practices

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• Monitoring
• Backups
• Performance Tuning
• Security
• Upgrades
• Capacity Planning
Key areas of a remote DBA service

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• Monitored 24x7
• How to monitor
− Realtime alerts
− Historical reports
• What to monitor
− Table and index bloat
reports
− Replication lag
− Idle connections
− Idle in transaction connections
Monitoring

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• How to backup
− Logical backups (pg_dump)
− Filesystem backup
− On-line backup
− Point in Time Recovery
(PITR)
• Data retention policy
• Testing restore procedure
Backups

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• Architecture Health Check (AHC)
• Optimizing memory usage
− Adjusting shared_buffers
− work_mem * max_connections
• vm.dirty_bytes and vm.dirty_background_bytes
• Understanding the storage
− effective_io_concurrency
• Identifying problem queries using pgbadger
Performance Tuning

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• Examine pg_hba.conf for proper
settings based on environment
• Ensure software is up to date
• Restrict access to configuration
files
• Disallow host system login by the database super user
• No sharing of credentials
• Only grant permissions that are needed, no more
Security Audit

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• Planning for system downtime
− Involving multiple teams
• Fail over to standby machines
− Test upgrade on replica server first
− How to fail back?
• Assisting in actual upgrade process
Upgrades

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• Quarterly planning meetings
− Planned features in PostgreSQL
• Advise on expanding system
− Hardware upgrades
− Software upgrades
− Clustering
Capacity Planning

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How EDB Can Help

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Why EDB for Remote DBA?
• EDB is the world wide leader on Postgres
− Database development expertise
− Deep technical knowledge of Postgres internals
− PostgreSQL experts on staff: community leaders,
committers and contributors
− Key member of the Postgres community
• EDB is the world wide leader for best practices
− Experience in large enterprises and mission critical systems
− Actively engaged in many Fortune 500 and
Global 1000 corporations
− Deployments across all industry types
− Worldwide leader in Postgres Training
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Architectural Health Check
• The Architectural Health Check (AHC) looks at:
− Operating system"
− Hardware configuration"
− Database settings"
− Backup strategies"
− General database practices"
− Upgrade requirements"
− High Availability options"
• The AHC identifies
− Short term opportunities"
− Strategic opportunities"
• In a collaborative session, the RDBA Team and the customer
review the AHC and develop the go-forward plan

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Customized to Meet Your Needs
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World-class service from the world’s best Postgres Company
Basic Service24/7 Monitoring Premium Service
PEACE OF MIND STAFF AUGMENTATION FULL-SERVICE EXPERTISE
• 24 x 7 real time monitoring
• Key parameters for database,
host and OS
• E-mail alerts
• Identify problems before they
impact operations
• Lowest cost option
• 24 x 7 monitoring, plus:
• 1-time remote AHC service
• Weekly status reports
• Monthly review meetings
• Monthly back-up verifications
• Patch & Maintenance
updates
• Emergency restoration
• Allows in-house DBA’s to
focus on mission-critical
tasks
• Basic service, plus:
• Annual remote AHC service
• Best-practice advice
• Architectural assistance
• Replication set-up & PITR set-up
• Dev/test system setup
• OS tuning & parameter advice
• Assigned technical lead
• Perfect for transitioning to Postgres,
knowledge transfer, or long-term
outsourcing

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David Thomas
david.thomas@enterprisedb.com
Let me know if I can help…
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