EXTENDED ORACLE RAC with EMC VPLEX Metro Reduced Complexity and Improved Availability Allan Robertson Derek O Mahony EMC Solutions Group 1
Objectives At the end of this session, you will Understand how VPLEX Metro eliminates complexity for Extended Oracle RAC environments Appreciate how VPLEX Metro and Oracle RAC offers increased availability VPLEX Metro with RecoverPoint continuous remote replication for Oracle RAC 2
Agenda What is VPLEX? Oracle RAC and Redundancy Extended Oracle RAC Extended Oracle RAC on VPLEX Metro Adding Disaster Recovery Database workload and Network Latency Benefits and Conclusion Questions 3
EMC VPLEX Family Overview VPLEX Metro Across Data Centers synchronous distances RecoverPoint Operational and 3 rd site recovery VPLEX Local Within a data center VPLEX Geo Across Data Centers asynchronous distances Mobility. Availability. Collaboration. GeoSynchrony Operating Environment 4
EMC VPLEX Metro Architecture VPLEX logical structures Consistency group Virtual volume Distributed device Device Extent Storage volume 5
Oracle RAC Single Site Redundant RAC Interconnect Redundant LAN Backbone Oracle RAC cluster Site A Redundant SAN Fabrics Enterprise Storage systems 6
Oracle RAC Multiple Sites Redundant RAC Interconnect Redundant LAN Backbone Oracle RAC cluster Site A IP WAN Site B Redundant SAN Fabrics Enterprise Storage systems Array Replication 7
Extended Oracle RAC Before VPLEX Site A RAC Interconnect IP WAN Site B Host Mirroring Consumes Valuable CPU Cycles Admins need to configure failure groups, path preferences and ASM mirroring functions Cross-Connect Introduces SAN Complexity Mirrored I/O paths Merged SAN Fabrics Disk Management for Voting files As storage capacity and node counts increase, all of the above need to be readministered for balanced performance and HA requirements RAC Voting Files 8
Extended Oracle RAC After VPLEX Site A RAC Interconnect Site B No host mirroring which saves valuable CPU cycles LAN Backbone LAN Backbone No need for Oracle DBA to configure failure groups, path preferences and ASM mirroring functions Same Virtual Volume No need to merge fabrics which reduces SAN complexity and improves fault domain isolation VPLEX Interconnect No 3 rd site voting disk administration as quorum devices reside on VPLEX As storage capacity and node counts increase, VPLEX handles path balancing, scaling storage, non-disruptive movement of data and replication workload VPLEX Witness 9
Oracle ASM DiskGroups with VPLEX Metro VPLEX AccessAnywhere 10
Mission-Critical Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery The Journey Journey to High Availability with Disaster Recovery a. Oracle RAC b. Oracle Extended RAC enabled by VPLEX Metro c. VPLEX Metro with RecoverPoint continuous remote replication 11
VPLEX Metro with Oracle Extended RAC 12
VPLEX Metro with EMC RecoverPoint 13
Network Infrastructure Site C SAN Sites A & B IP network Sites A & B SAN 14
Transaction Rate OLTP database workload and Network Latency 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 Distance: 0 km (baseline) Distance: 100 km (1ms RTT) Test Profile OLTP workload 70% reads / 30% writes 2 RAC nodes local 2 RAC nodes remote VPLEX and RAC interconnect affected by distance 0 1 2 3 4 Number of RAC Nodes 15
Demonstration 16
Why VPLEX for Extended Oracle RAC Easy to configure and manage Continuous Availability Ideal for tech refresh and data/application mobility Optimized SAN Performance and Scale All reads local (cache/disk), no host overhead 100% database and application consistency upon failure Leverage for other applications Interoperates with EMC and 3 rd Party servers/arrays 17
Summary and Conclusion High Availability Active/active data centers with zero RPOs and RTOs Disaster Recovery Cost-effective DR for active/active data centers with point-in-time data recovery at a third, remote site VPLEX Simplified deployment of Oracle RAC on Extended Distance Clusters 24/7 application availability Simplified high availability management Automatic failure handling & load balancing Zero downtime maintenance Protection for multiple databases or application files as a unit with consistency groups Increased infrastructure utilization VPLEX with RecoverPoint Maximize available points in time (PITs) for disaster recovery Integrated RecoverPoint splitter Continuous data protection (CDP) Continuous remote replication (CRR) Continuous local and remote replication (CLR) On-demand protection and recovery to any point in time 18
For more Information https://www.emc.com/everythingoracle https://www.emcdemocenter.com 19
Questions? 20