It’s not just about rising costs, but where the money goes. All of us are probably familiar with this statistic: 70-80 percent of corporate money budgeted for IT is spent for ongoing operations and maintenance, which doesn’t leave much to invest in innovation.Let’s say that a company spends 5% of revenue on IT, and 80% of that goes toward keeping the lights on, then 4% of revenue is being spent on a commodity that does not improve competitiveness. (Source: InformationWeek)
5X or more is typicalperformance gain for many applications:WebLogic Server applicationsOLTP with Exadata, Oracle DB and/or RACEnterprise Data Grids (Coherence)Mainframe applications (Tuxedo)SOAWebCenterOracle Business ApplicationsAny I/O-intensive application
This is clearly a big vision. How are we going to execute? Java PerformanceJava is an essential technology to Oracle and almost all of our customers. There was a real focus on what we could do for Java and there was a lot of opportunity: Java is well known for being sophisticated to tune, and performance was something we could optimizeMission Critical CloudReal end to end standardization, consolidation and ultimately CLOUD – IT as a serviceThis isn’t something that just works for small enterprise applications. The real business value is when it can be deployed across the enterprise, which means you need an infrastructure that can support the most mission critical applicationsEngineered SystemWe focused on the benefits of what can be delivered out of the box while carefully balancing the requirement to not take too much control from customersWe have a long standing commitment to best of breed components, and our business is likely not going to move away from selling those componentsWe focused on the best standalone components that our customers would use to build their own systems and used those same components to build this new engineered system that we can deliver out of the box, pre-integrated and ready to run.These were our goals, and we achieved them! We are very pleased with what we have done accomplished with this product.
SimpleComplete, plug-and-go hardware and softwareScaleStart with as few as two cores, and scale all the way to 24 total cores without the usual expense and downtime of a typical hardware upgradeReliableConfigure highly available database cluster in minutesAdvanced management features and single vendor supportAffordablePay for capacity as you need itConsolidate small databases for even more savings
The Oracle Database Appliance hardware is a single 4U rackmountable chassis containing two Oracle Linux server nodes, each with two 6-core Intel Xeon processors X5675 and 96 GB of memory. The two server nodes are connected via an internal redundant gigabit Ethernet (GbE) interconnect for cluster communication, and each provides both GbE and 10 GbE external networking connectivity. The appliance contains 12 TB of raw storage that’s triple-mirrored, offering 4 TB of resilient usable database storage. There are also four 73 GB solid-state disks for database redo logs to boost performance. The appliance is designed with mission-critical requirements in mind, with hot-swappable and redundant components.
The Oracle Database Appliance runs Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, that stripes and mirrors all the data with Auto Storage ManagementFor high availability and to take advantage of the “cluster in a box” of the Oracle Database Appliance, customers have the choice of running Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) or Oracle RAC One Node for “active-active” or “active-passive” database server failover. Oracle RAC can be part of the initial deployment, or added in the future to extend high availability easily within the same server hardware. This takes advantage or Oracle Clusterware (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/clusterware/overview/index.html) and runs on top of Oracle Linux.The Oracle Database Appliance comes with the extremely easy-to-use Application Manager software, which can automatically notify you and your Oracle Support Team of issues, and even automatically open Service Requests. Application Manager provide significantly more benefits beyond extending reliability and resilience, and I’ll talk more about it in just a moment.
Running the appliance does not require specialized clustering or high availability skills. Just plug in the power, plug it into the network, push the one-button install on Application manager software, and you’re ready to go.
To help customers easily deploy and manage their databases, the Oracle Database Appliance features Appliance Manager software for one-button automation to provision, patch, and diagnose database servers. The Appliance Manager feature greatly simplifies the deployment process and ensures that database configuration adheres to Oracle’s best practices. It also drastically simplifies maintenance by patching the entire appliance, including all firmware and software, in one operation, using an Oracle-tested patch engineered specifically for the appliance. Its built-in diagnostics also monitor the system and detect component failures, configuration issues, and deviations from best practices. Should it be necessary to contact Oracle Support, Appliance Manager collects all relevant log files and environmental data into a single compressed file. In addition, the Oracle Database Appliance Automatic Service Request feature can automatically log service requests with Oracle Support to help speed resolution of issues.Self-managing database features pre-configured Automatic Storage Management, Automatic Memory Management, …Automatic detection and correction of many failure conditionsFast problem diagnosisAutomated Service Request filing (phone home)Relevant logs gathered and packaged for Oracle supportOne-button patching for entire stackSingle point of contact for all support issues
To help customers easily deploy and manage their databases, the Oracle Database Appliance features Appliance Manager software for one-button automation to provision, patch, and diagnose database servers. The Appliance Manager feature greatly simplifies the deployment process and ensures that database configuration adheres to Oracle’s best practices. It also drastically simplifies maintenance by patching the entire appliance, including all firmware and software, in one operation, using an Oracle-tested patch engineered specifically for the appliance. Its built-in diagnostics also monitor the system and detect component failures, configuration issues, and deviations from best practices. Should it be necessary to contact Oracle Support, Appliance Manager collects all relevant log files and environmental data into a single compressed file. In addition, the Oracle Database Appliance Automatic Service Request feature can automatically log service requests with Oracle Support to help speed resolution of issues.Self-managing database features pre-configured Automatic Storage Management, Automatic Memory Management, …Automatic detection and correction of many failure conditionsFast problem diagnosisAutomated Service Request filing (phone home)Relevant logs gathered and packaged for Oracle supportOne-button patching for entire stackSingle point of contact for all support issues
The Oracle Database Appliance runs Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, that stripes and mirrors all the data with Auto Storage ManagementFor high availability and to take advantage of the “cluster in a box” of the Oracle Database Appliance, customers have the choice of running Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) or Oracle RAC One Node for “active-active” or “active-passive” database server failover. Oracle RAC can be part of the initial deployment, or added in the future to extend high availability easily within the same server hardware. This takes advantage or Oracle Clusterware (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/clusterware/overview/index.html) and runs on top of Oracle Linux.The Oracle Database Appliance comes with the extremely easy-to-use Application Manager software, which can automatically notify you and your Oracle Support Team of issues, and even automatically open Service Requests. Application Manager provide significantly more benefits beyond extending reliability and resilience, and I’ll talk more about it in just a moment.
The Oracle Database Appliance offers customers a unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing model to quickly scale from 2 to 24 processor cores without any hardware upgrades. Customers can deploy the Oracle Database Appliance with as few as 2 processors cores to run their database servers, and incrementally scale up to the maximum of 24 processor cores within the same hardware envelope. This avoids the usual costs and scheduled downtime of a typical hardware upgrade, and enables customers to deliver the performance and high availability that business users demand as they align software spending with business growth.
The Oracle Database Appliance is the ideal database platform for SMB and departmental solutions running databases up to 4TB. Whether you are looking to deploy new databases or replace aging systems with faster and more efficient new servers, the Oracle Database Appliance can deliver the high availability many of your applications require today or in the future. And as you look at all of your servers running databases, the Oracle Database Appliance provides you a very affordable platform to migrate and consolidate various databases while improving quality of service.
Fastest Data Warehouse & OLTPBest Cost/Performance Data Warehouse & OLTPOptimized Hardware (per rack)Processor: up to128 Intel Cores and 2 TB DRAMNetwork: 880 Gb/Sec ThroughputStorage: 5 TB Flash and up to 336 TB DiskSoftware BreakthroughsExadata Smart Storage GridSmart Flash CacheHybrid Columnar CompressionParallel Scale-Out Database and StorageScales from ¼ Rack to 8 Full Racks
10- 50x performance improvements- The architecture of the Exadata storage cells is that instead of a server asking for a block of data and the block of data coming back to the server, we’re actually constructing queries that are executed in parallel across the different storage devices. Flash memory in the storage device caches the intermediate results, as well as do advanced compression and allow you to run queries and do data warehousing against compressed and encrypted data. This further demonstrates the value of integrated hardware and software. It’s not possible for a conventional storage system to equal this. And so there is no possible way from any other vendor that you can run Oracle Database 11g faster than it runs on Exadata or on SuperCluster by virtue of the fact that we have an architecturally different coupling between the database and the storage. This result of engineering the hardware and software together between the database and storage is very fundamental because that’s what gives us the IO capability and performance of SuperCluster, as well as Exadata.
The resulting impact of Oracle Engineered Systems is truly enormous. Performance gains of over 10x are very common for applications running unmodified on engineered systems, and the overall increase in price performance and total cost of ownership are often 10x previous generations of best of breed solutions or versus the competition.In many cases, overall application performance far exceeds 10x.
For illustrative purposes, this diagram shows InfiniBand connectivity on the vertical axis and Ethernet connectivity on the horizontal axis.The compute nodes and the storage device within Exalogic are provisioned with redundant InfiniBand connections. These devices have access to the datacenter “external” network via the Ethernet ports on the InfiniBand Gateways.Ethernet connectivity to the compute servers and cloud storage is provided through the InfiniBand fabric. Virtual Ethernet NICs are instantiated within the host stack and Ethernet frames are encapsulated within InfiniBand packets which are forwarded to the gateway, which has physical Ethernet ports.Note that there is an independent 1 GbE network for device management that connects to all components in Exalogic
EL 1.0 multiple for Web: 3.4EL 1.0 multiple for JMS: 1.6EL 1.0 multiple for Enterprise Java: 2.2
EL 1.0 multiple for Web: 3.4EL 1.0 multiple for JMS: 1.6EL 1.0 multiple for Enterprise Java: 2.2
Starting with the SPARC SuperCluster, the most important point to think about is it’s best for Oracle. Exadata purpose built for the database runs that extraordinarily well, and Exalogic runs middleware, Java middleware, WebLogic and those applications extraordinarily well. But what we wanted to do here is to bring those pieces of technology together with any other stuff you have running in your enterprise. So, we have many customers that have hundreds or thousands of applications, whether they’re packaged applications or written in traditional languages, running many parts of their enterprise. And we bring together these core technologies into a platform that lets you run those applications, but also have the best of the best from Oracle so you can run side-by-side with database 11, you can run side-by-side with WebLogic, and so on.Performance substantiation:1M IOPS: Based on internal measurement of Exadata Storage cells10x Java performance: Based on internal measurement of Exalogic ZFS 2x faster, ½ the price of NetApp: Demonstrates the performance of ZFS Storage via the Oracle Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance which delivered outstanding performance and price/performance on the SPC Benchmark 1, beating results published on the NetApp FAS3270A.The Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance delivered 137,066.20 SPC-1 IOPS at $2.99 $/SPC-1 IOPS on the SPC-1 benchmark. The Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance outperformed the NetApp FAS3270A by 2x on the SPC-1 benchmark. The Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance outperformed the NetApp FAS3270A by 2.5x on price/performance on the SPC-1 benchmark.SPC-1, SPC-1 IOPS, $/SPC-1 IOPS reg tm of Storage Performance Council (SPC). More info www.storageperformance.org. Oracle Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00108 As of October 3, 2011.Cloud provisioning, unmatched scalability: Scalability of Solaris 11, leader in scaling to 512 threadsNear zero virtualization overhead: Solaris Zones, based on internal testsInfiniBand: 5-8x speed of current networksEnterprise Manager reduction of downtime: Oracle is helping to streamline operations, increase productivity, reduce downtime, and remove management barriers with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. With the ability to manage today’s increasingly heterogeneous, diverse, and complex datacenters, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center helps IT staff create dynamic, scalable, datacenter infrastructure that adapts to ever-changing business priorities and demands. White paper including description of reduced downtime: http://www.oracle.com/oms/enterprisemanager11g/application-to-disk-067846.html
