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6 Ways to Solve Your Oracle Dev-Test Problems Using All-Flash Storage and Copy Data Management Catalog. Automate. Transform.Copy Data Across Your Enterprise and Cloud

Agenda

• Current problems• Six Ways Catalogic and All-Flash Storage Can Help• Solution demo• Customer case study

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PresentersPeter EicherCatalogic Product Marketing Manager

Christian BurnsCatalogic Product Manager

What Are The Current Problems?

1. Too many copies of Oracle data

2. Oracle copy process is slow and manual

3. Oracle copies can takes days or weeks to deliver to users

4. Oracle copies aren’t refreshed often enough -- stale data

5. Oracle data content needs to be secure (fields masked or subset)

6. Current tools don’t integrate with enterprise all-flash storage

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6 Ways to Solve Your Oracle Dev-Test Problems Using

All-Flash Storage and Copy Data Management

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1 Save a Ton on Disk Space

Problem: Too many copies of Oracle data

The Current DB Copy Data Environment Too many copies, delivered too late, left around too long

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Typical Production Oracle Data Set

Analytics & Reporting

2 to 4 Full Copies6 to 8 Full Copies

Development & Operations

BackupDR

Dev/TestQA

TrainingDevOpsSandbox

Patch ManagementEtc.

Copy Delivery:1 to 4 Weeks

Stale data! Stale data!

And this is just one application

Copy statistics from IDC

All-Flash vs. Hard Disk Drives• Because of performance constraints,

HDD systems require full clones, to move data to other spindles.

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Hard Disk LUN

Snapshot

Full Clone

Workload

Workload

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Workload

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Workload

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Workload

Reserved for Recovery

Full Clone

Workload

Workload

• Flash does not have the same IOPS limitation, so one copy does the work of many HDD copies.

All-Flash LUN

Snapshot

Full Clone

Workload

Workload

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All-flash storage dramatically reduces the number of full Oracle copies you need.

Catalogic ECX provides Oracle copy automation and orchestration,

as we shall see…

1 Save a Ton on Disk Space

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2 Automate the Copy Process

Problem: Oracle copy process is slow and manual

Complete Oracle Copy Automation

Create Copies Track Copies Refresh Copies

Use Copies Transition Copies Delete Copies

Test Prod

Snapshot, Replicate, Clone Catalog Automated DR and Test/Dev refresh

Map LUNs, Spin Up Systems Test to Production Clean Up

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Use Copies on Production or Alternate Tier

• Run dev-test from production array

Flash LUN Snapshot

Production All-Flash Array

ReplicationFlash LUN

Alternate All-Flash Array

Flash LUN

Production All-Flash Array

Local or Remote

Snapshot

Workload

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• Replicate to second array and run dev-test away from production array

Catalogic ECX supports either operational model

Further Technical Details

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ECX uses built-in disk array copy engines

(snapshots, replication, clones)

Leverages flash storage data reduction

(compression, dedupe)

This is “in-place” copy data management

NetApp: Snapshot, SnapVault, SnapMirrorFAS, All-Flash FAS, NPS, Cloud ONTAP, FlexPod

EMC Unity: Snapshots, ReplicationUnity 300/F, 400/F, 500/F, 600/F, VSA, VNXe

IBM: FlashCopy, Global MirrorStorwize, SVC, Flash V9000, VersaStack

No Oracle Agents required

Run-time code-injection

Code is always the latest

Oracle Log Management

Logs are captured

Provides point-in-time data access, recovery

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Automated Oracle copy creation makes dev-test infrastructure deployment fast, easy, and reliable

Catalogic ECX provides scheduling, policies, templates and works with

your all-flash storage

2 Automate the Copy Process

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3 No More Waiting for Copies

Problem: Oracle copies can takes days or weeks to deliver to users

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Oracle Data Delivered Where and When You Need It

Push-button access to Oracle copies

Map/Mount snapshots in minutes

On Demand Self-Service

Empower users with self-service portal

DBAs, Dev-Test, QA, etc.

Always under IT control

Automated and Scheduled

Copies in place automatically, every day

Data in place even before work begins

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Eliminate idle time for dev-test teams

Catalogic ECX delivers Oracle data copies where and when

they’re needed

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4 Keep Your Data Fresh

Problem: Oracle copies aren’t refreshed often enough -- stale data

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Data Delivery: From Days to Minutes

• Instant all-flash snapshots provisioned to Dev-Test machines within minutes• Data refreshed

automatically as required• Fresh productiondata leads

to better results– Fewer bugs– Faster delivery times

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Dev-2

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Prod Data Snapshot

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Improve dev-test quality with fresher copies of production data

Catalogic ECX automates everything

4 Keep Your Data Fresh

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5 Keep Your Data Secure

Problem: Oracle data content needs to be secure

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Integrated Data Masking

• Protect sensitive data with integrated data masking

• Generate a masked copy and deliver to multiple hosts

• Apply masking only to specific copies (it’s not all-or-none)

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Deliver secure copies to dev-test teams

Catalogic ECX integrates with your existing data

masking operations

5 Keep Your Data Secure

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6 Use YourFavorite Tools

Problem: Current tools don’t integrate with enterprise all-flash storage

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Integrated with RMAN and DevOps Tools

• ECX works with Oracle RMAN and popular DevOps tools• ECX feeds copy information into

RMAN catalog• Drive data recovery via RMAN• ECX REST API allows all operations

to be driven via DevOps tools– Infrastructure as Code

RMAN

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Don’t stop using what you know and love

Catalogic ECX lets you use the tools that drive your Oracle

Dev-Test with all-flash storage

6 Use Your Favorite Tools

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And now a few more cool things!

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Use the same copy process for data protection and disaster recovery

Use the same copy process for other off-host operations: reporting, analytics, forensics, training, etc.

Copy to spinning-disk tier for lower I/O workloads

Simple, controller-based licensing for ECX

Solution Demonstration

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Automated Test/Dev: Customer Example

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Customer Challenges

• Manually build VMs, configure storage, network etc.• Manual monitoring, tracking of test copies• IT labor-intensive By the NumbersNo. of servers built/month: 10-15 VMsAverage build time/server: 4 hoursTime spent per month: 40-60 hoursEngineer time/year: 3 months After Catalogic ECX

• Fully automated with self-service• Automated monitoring and tracking

By the NumbersAverage build time/server: 2-3 minutes Time spent per month: 30-45 minutes Engineer time/year: 6-9 hours

99% Time Savings Across the Board

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More Information

• www.catalogicsoftware.com

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– 30 day trial software

– Rich media content in Resources section

New ESG lab report

Revised data sheet Contact Me

peicher@catalogicsoftware.com

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Thank you!Q & A