Next-Generation Data Protection

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1 Next-Generation Data Protection With Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery O R A C L E W H I T E P A P E R J U N E

2 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 1 Balancing Divergent Backup and Recovery Objectives 1 Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery 2 Flexible Options 2 Accelerate Deployment 3 Reduce Risk 4 Rely on Highly Available Architecture 4 Lower Total Cost of Ownership 5 Customers are Reaping the Benefit 6 A Large Government Agency 6 A Large Cloud Services Company 6 Conclusion 7 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

3 Executive Summary In today s competitive economy, enterprises depend on their applications to keep the business running at peak efficiency. The loss of any of these applications or their data could bring the business to a halt. To provide a suitably robust, high-performing platform, many organizations are hosting their missioncritical applications on Oracle s engineered systems. These systems provide pre-integrated, optimized platforms for vital enterprise applications. Once the application platform is addressed, IT departments must ensure the protection of vital corporate data. This requires comparable backup and recovery systems that can deliver corresponding performance and service levels. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery delivers accelerated next-generation data protection for Oracle s engineered systems and Oracle Optimized Solutions. The flexible, multitier architecture provides virtually unlimited scalability, centralized management, and end-to-end data protection for heterogeneous technologies. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery accelerates Oracle Database backups and reduces the cost of engineered systems or Optimized Solution backups compared to solutions from other vendors. The result is a comprehensive solution that protects valuable corporate data, reduces risk, and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) for essential business systems. Introduction Virtually every company, regardless of size or industry, needs data archive capabilities. As environments grow in size, complexity, and diversity, administrators must cope with explosive data growth and the pressure to meet escalating service levels while backup windows shrink. In addition, legislative, corporate, and industry regulations mandate forever data retention and retrieval requirements. Combined with budget constraints, these requirements present IT staff with the stiff challenge of deploying a comprehensive, scalable backup solution while curbing costs and building forward-looking infrastructure. Balancing Divergent Backup and Recovery Objectives Large-scale databases and enterprise applications, such as those provisioned on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle SuperCluster systems, often have very challenging data protection requirements. In addition to the sheer magnitude of data they store, these large-scale systems often support 24x7 operations and have stringent service-level agreements (SLAs), recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery point objectives (RPOs). As databases expand to hold more business-critical data, the window of opportunity for backup and recovery operations shrinks, making solution performance critical. Typically IT managers can boost backup and recovery performance, reduce the risk to ongoing IT and business operations, or lower the cost of ownership for backup and recovery operations. Addressing all three objectives simultaneously requires a balancing act (Figure 1). IT managers can buy high-end solutions, spending a large portion of their IT budget for superior performance. Alternatively, they can spend smaller amounts, sacrificing performance and data protection to reduce capital expenditures. In the end, IT managers are forced to make tradeoffs in competing requirements for excellent performance, minimal risk, and lower acquisition and ongoing support costs. 1 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

4 Figure 1. Enterprise backup and recovery solutions must address opposing requirements. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery Understanding the need for balanced backup and recovery solutions, Oracle offers optimized architectures to protect business information stored in Oracle s engineered systems, including Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, and Oracle Optimized Solutions. These pre-tested, high-performance architectures accelerate data protection processing and management with breakthrough cost structures based on Oracle servers, the Oracle Solaris operating system, and Oracle disk and tape storage systems. Flexible Options Oracle s backup solutions are flexible, providing a wide range of deployment options with or without backup software, employing disks, tape, or a combination of disk and tape. Three pre-tested configurations are available, with each tailored for different RTOs, RPOs, and backup client types (Figure 2). Organizations can select a base configuration and add storage capacity as needed.» Capacity solution. This high-capacity disk and tape solution is designed for simple backup and recovery of the Oracle Database and disk drives.» Flexible performance solution. Comprised of low-latency disks and high-capacity tape, this solution is designed for incrementally updated backups using Oracle Database tools. The solution enables low-latency connectivity to external development and testing environments.» High performance package. Configured with the highest performing, most integrated disk and tape systems, this solution is designed for extreme database backup and recovery. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery can be used to perform network backups of heterogeneous clients for complete end-to-end data protection. It can also be used with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and Oracle Data Guard data protection solutions, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, and high-performance encrypted tape to provide cost-effective and secure long-term data storage. 2 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

5 Figure 2. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery provides a complete solution for any recovery time objective. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery is unique, offering industry-leading price/performance characteristics. The utilization of low-cost or zero-cost software enables the Oracle solution to deliver high performance at less cost than any high-performance backup solution. Additional savings can be achieved with tape systems, the lowest-cost storage media that is ideal for storing older backup copies. Near linear performance scaling is achieved by using pre-tested server and storage configurations for a building block approach. This architecture simplifies solution implementation and makes it easier to perform upgrades or expand systems as needed for data growth. With a compelling price/performance metric in mind, Oracle engineers identified optimal performance and sizing characteristics for the solution options, including the number of supported backup targets. The sections that follow describe the business benefits that can be achieved with Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery. For more technical detail and architectural information, see Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Secure Backup A Technical White Paper. Accelerate Deployment Typical data center backup and recovery deployments are a huge undertaking that involve many IT staff. Integrating, tuning, and testing complex solutions can be time-consuming. The more comprehensive a solution is, the greater the chance of human error during the build-out process. Even before testing and integration, myriad components from multiple vendors must be inventoried and correctly installed, a labor-intensive procedure that can add days to project time frames. The possibility of human error is high, and when errors occur, troubleshooting can be problematic. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery reduces the effort needed to deploy critical backup and recovery capabilities. Indeed, the typical time and effort needed to get from project initiation to full operation can be reduced with components that are engineered, pre-configured, and optimized to work together. Oracle engineers invested considerable upfront effort to design, test, validate, and tune the solution, enabling rapid deployment of backup and recovery systems at installation sites. 3 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

6 Reduce Risk In addition to consuming days, weeks, or even months for planning and building, integrating a custom-built backup and recovery solution introduces additional risks. Figure 3 illustrates the complexity involved in building a backup and recovery system using a broad range of hardware and software technologies from a diverse set of vendors. With this approach, administrators must configure and integrate components, and determine compatibility and confirm interoperability (both initially and prior to any updates). In addition, they are tasked with testing and managing the heterogeneous environment, and dealing with a host of different vendor service organizations. Figure 3. As a single solution provider, Oracle reduces deployment and interoperability risk. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery provides everything needed to deploy backup and recovery systems for Oracle s engineered systems. By providing a complete solution servers, high-performance networking, encrypted tape storage, and management tools Oracle removes many of the complexities associated with building and operating traditional backup and recovery systems. In addition, Oracle makes management easy with Oracle Enterprise Manager. This complete, applications-to-disk management tool enables IT staff to manage the entire environment, from the database and applications, to servers, firmware, virtual systems, operating systems, to administrative rights, storage, backup and recovery systems, patches and updates, and more. IT staff must consider another serious risk: the ability to successfully restore backups in the event of a failure. Oracle Database contains features that work in conjunction with functions contained in the file system to ascertain database data integrity. This safeguards data and assures IT staff of successful restore operations without the need to spend time restoring data they later discover is corrupted. Rely on Highly Available Architecture When evaluating the ability of a backup and recovery system to handle unexpected events or production system failures, the first concern is identifying whether the solution can handle its own failures without disrupting data protection. IT staff know that backup and recovery operations can continue as long as systems handle failures. If a failure forces the backup and recovery system to go offline, however, the business is vulnerable to data loss. Another factor to consider is the impact of the time needed to recover production systems on business operations. 4 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

7 Backup and recovery systems must be able to restore production systems in time to meet service-level agreements in order to avoid a loss of business continuity or a negative impact on the bottom line. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery helps reduce the risk of downtime or data unavailability. With pre-integrated components and virtually no single point of failure, the solution continues to operate during a wide variety of potential failures in the backup and recovery system, and can minimize the impact of those failures. As a result, the pre-tested solutions designed to backup and recover Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, and Oracle Optimized Solutions provide the high availability needed to ensure data access and servicelevel agreements are maintained. Lower Total Cost of Ownership CIOs and IT managers are mindful of the impact that extremely expensive, multivendor, custom-built backup and recovery solutions have on already constrained budgets. Understanding the need to balance performance, cost, and risk, Oracle invested heavily in upfront solution engineering. This strategy enables Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery to deliver lower acquisition, deployment, administration, and operating costs for the backup and recovery of Oracle solutions. Savings can be realized in many different areas.» Reduce deployment costs. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery is available in pre-tested configurations. Because the solution is validated by Oracle, IT organizations do not need to spend time performing onsite tuning and testing.» Reduce risk with end-to-end, built-in security. Backup and recovery solutions require more security than typical data center environments because many times they use rented or public networks to transfer data from site to site or physically transport data on removable media. Oracle Optimized Solutions provide functional security guidelines and best practices that protect your disaster recovery solution from end to end using built-in security technologies in every layer of the solution.» Accelerate backup performance. The solution employs high-performance technologies to decrease backup times and accommodate shrinking backup windows. Increased performance for database backups translates directly into efficiency gains for backup and recovery systems. Exclusive performance optimizations, such as high-value database integration features for Oracle Database, can result in percent faster database backups over solutions from other vendors.» Eliminate specialized backup and recovery hardware. Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Backup and Recovery provides a single multipurpose platform for backup, recovery, test, and development. Expensive, specialized, third-party hardware is not needed for backup operations.» Reduce the need for special technical skills. Pre-integration and pre-testing reduces the need for specialtytrained IT staff. Integration and deployment are straightforward. There is no need to train staff on new hardware or software components, or hire experts to manage components from multiple vendors.» Streamline management. In the Oracle solution, a single console provides access to a complete set of integrated management tools that simplify and automate administrative tasks. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center manages the entire environment: applications, database, virtual systems, operating systems, administrative rights, servers, storage, firmware, backup and recovery systems, patches and updates, and more. This integrated approach saves considerable time and money over working with a variety of multivendor tools, and minimizes the incidence of human errors that can lead to downtime.» Lower licensing costs. IT organizations can save up to 75 percent in licensing costs with deployments utilizing Oracle Secure Backup software. Calculating charges according to the number of tape drives, Oracle Secure Backup software licensing does not incur extra licensing costs for specialized clients such as Oracle Exadata Database Machine. This simplified, single-component software licensing offers complete enterprise features at one-fifth the cost of backup solutions from some other vendors. In fact, Oracle s disk-only solutions do not incur any software licensing fees.» Reduce media costs. Some solution configurations offer Oracle s StorageTek tape and library solutions. These solutions offer long-term data retention for 20 times less than many disk-to-disk (D2D) solutions. 5 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

8 » Eliminate third-party backup software costs. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery enables IT organizations to use the backup and recovery tools included in Oracle s operating system and database, without additional backup software.» Continue to meet and deliver SLAs. Some solution configurations offer infinite scalability and no single-point-offailure along with a flexible multitier architecture. There is no need for forklift upgrades to expand capacity or increase performance as data volumes grow.» Waste less storage space. Built-in database integration features in Oracle Database improve media utilization, reducing the storage capacity requirements for backup operations.» Increase resource utilization and reclaim data center space. IT departments can use Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery to consolidate disparate legacy backup solutions. Oracle estimates show a 50 percent increase in resource utilization and a 50 percent reduction in data center space requirements.» Improve accountability. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery eliminates the finger pointing and difficulty of determining which vendor is responsible in multivendor solutions. The result is faster time to resolution in the event that service or support is required. Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery dramatically simplifies backup and recovery processing and management for replicated Oracle Exadata Database Machines, Oracle SuperCluster systems, and Oracle Optimized Solution deployments. In remotely replicated environments, IT organizations do not need to deploy complex, third-party, de-duplication technologies to ensure complete data protection. The Oracle solution enables copies of local and remote data to be encrypted to tape at both sites. Customers are Reaping the Benefit Organizations around the world, both public and private, are reaping the benefits of Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery deployment. A Large Government Agency A large U.S. state government agency needed a fully integrated information system to manage data for multiple public assistance programs. The agency needed the system to handle 5.5 million transactions per day, 11,000 transactions per minute during peak times, with 1.8 million database transactions per minute. The agency decided to migrate from Oracle s SPARC Enterprise M8000 servers to the Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery on Oracle SuperCluster. Within the Oracle SuperCluster system, the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance was used to host the agency s development and test environments and accommodate backups. This reduced required storage capacity by over 80 percent, while maintaining superior price/performance. The engineered solution allowed direct consolidation without the need for system recertification, in line with business requirements. As a result, the agency was able to reduce risk, improve cost efficiency, increase availability and performance, and ease migration and installation. A Large Cloud Services Company An industry-leading cloud service provider was looking for a better backup solution. The company has over twelve years of experience serving millions of end users, delivering enterprise-grade, end-to-end managed cloud services across a broad portfolio of business applications, middleware, database, and hardware technologies. Faced with the challenge of extreme, 100 percent data growth rates, the service provider required around-the-clock backups that would not interfere with customer processing. Encryption was required for all data to ensure customer data security. In addition, the solution had to be able to drop ship data to customers. In this environment, data center migrations and platform changes in the midst of ongoing daily business can present a challenge. The company chose to deploy Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery in a configuration using Oracle Secure Backup software running on Oracle s SPARC T-Series servers. The solution utilizes an Oracle 6 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

9 StorageTek SL3000 modular library system and tape drives that provide massive capacity and extremely fast transfer rates. Delighted with the results, the company realized remarkable benefits across the board:» Higher capacity and performance. The massive storage capacity of the solution easily stores more than 10 PB of backups each month. By increasing the average tape transfer rate six-fold, the Oracle solution completes backups faster. Security is maintained through tape encryption.» Improved storage efficiency and space savings. The solution reduced the number of tape silos by 66 percent and reduced data center footprint by 47 percent. In addition, the company was able to decrease the number of tape drives used by 50 percent, while reducing the amount of tape media needed by 63 percent. In addition, the centralized tape backup management, backup schedules, and media retention features of the Oracle Secure Backup software further increase efficiency and savings.» Greater operational efficiency at less cost. A rapid implementation accelerated three new data center deployments, with each data center completed in less than one week. Labor costs are down, as the export features of the StorageTek SL3000 modular library system reduce the labor needed for data vaulting by threefold. In addition, the solution handles planned and unplanned downtime without service interruption. To date, the Oracle Secure Backup software has saved the company more than $300,000 in renewal fees and annual maintenance costs. Conclusion Only Oracle has the hardware and software components needed to create integrated solutions that deliver value. Innovative Oracle hardware and software components come together in the Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery to deliver optimal performance and enhanced productivity at less cost and with less risk. A single solution from a single vendor, the Oracle solution provides simplicity and elegance through a complete and tested solution that is optimized to best support backup and recovery operations. Understanding the complexity associated with multivendor solutions, Oracle s solution takes a fresh approach. All Oracle hardware and software is integrated, configured, and optimized to work together to take the guesswork out of selecting and deploying backup and recovery solutions. The entire solution is pre-configured, pre-racked, and ready to run, with factory testing eliminating the compatibility issues that often arise in multivendor solutions. Combined with a single, fully integrated set of comprehensive management tools, the Oracle Optimized Solution for Backup and Recovery can help IT organizations to accelerate deployment, simplify ongoing management, and maximize overall solution quality to safeguard valuable information and deliver business results. 7 NEXT-GENERATION DATA PROTECTION

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