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EM12c: Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database

Product Management January 2015

Feature Overview


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Program Agenda

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Current Challenges

EM 12c Solution Overview

Solution Details

Customer Stories

Summary 5

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Evolution of Datacenter Changing Dynamics of Database Maintenance

Internet 2003

END USERS

DBAs

Challenges • Lengthy process, mostly manual • Lack of scalability • Operations are at single target level

Goals •Higher Agility- Self Service, Elasticity •Lower cost- Shared Resources,

Automation •Reduced Risk – High Availability

Challenges • Complex process • Time Consuming • Need mass automation • Downtime management

RAC RAC

END USERS

DBAs

4 Volume Complexity Complexity Volume Complexity Volume

DBAs

Cloud & Consolidation 2014

PORTAL END USERS

Grid, Clustering, Virtualization 2008, ….

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Unmanaged asset sprawl Configuration Pollution

• 28% have an annual database

instance growth of more than

20%

• Less than 50% have

consolidated

• Too many versions, patch

levels and sizes

• 400 variants out of 1400+

across 3 major releases for a

large telecom customer

Key Challenges and Solutions

Slow time to delivery

• Days to Weeks to provision new

database services or clone

production databases for key

projects

Consolidation Standardization Automation


Consolidation Planning and Testing

Enterprise Manager 12c provides

Consolidation Planning for physical to virtual, commodity to

Engineered Systems and dedicated to multitenant database

Validation of the database consolidation architecture with

Database Consolidation Planner

Validation of SQL performance and identification of

regressions using SQL Performance Analyzer

Testing of consolidated workload by capturing and replaying

real workload using Real Application Testing

Allied Irish Bank (AIB) consolidated its Oracle Database platform with the help of Real Application Testing and 25% less testing resources


Configuration Standardization

Enterprise Manager 12c enables

Single Service Catalog with predefined configurations and

sizes to minimize variants

Ongoing Compliance checks to detect violations and

mapping to industry standards like STIG and PCI

Drift management to detect differences across a fleet of

databases

Automated patch management under minimum downtime

to bring configurations back to compliance

Telecom Italia has created a single Service Catalog to streamline operations that previously hosted 700 different configurations across 1000+ databases


Automation for Database

Enterprise Manager 12c enables

Single click deployment of single instance, RAC, pluggable

databases and schemas, optionally with DR setup

Intelligent placement and governance through access

control, quota and showback

Instant, storage efficient cloning of databases using Snap

Clone

Automation of lifecycle operations like backup, restore,

patching, upgrade

RESTFUL APIs for integrating with orchestration services

NAV reduced new database provisioning time from 6-7 days to 18 minutes using Enterprise Manager 12c


Solution Details

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Service Catalog and Self Service Portal

Data Clone and Refresh

Monitoring and Management

APIS


Service Catalog

Definition

• A collection of standardized services available to selected consumers for on demand, self service provisioning

Benefits

• Establish and enforce effective standardization

• Repeatable and predictable deployment

• Helps identify service costs

• Helps reduce the database management overhead


EM12c DBaaS Service Catalog for Provisioning

Service Definition

Technical Service

Service Model

Resource Pools

Define service tiers to simplify your offerings

Establish the technical footprint of each service tier

Determine the individual services to be provisioned

Align services with resource pools

Bronze Silver Gold

Small Large

Medium X-Large

RAC

Data Guard Backups

PDB Database Schema

11.2.0.4 11.2.0.4

12.1.0.1 10.2.0.5

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Define Database Service Tiers

Primary Standbys EM12c

SI/SIHA -

SI/SIHA SI/SIHA

RAC -

RAC SI

RAC RAC

RON -

RON RON

SI – Single Instance

RON – RAC One Node

Deploy Services across regions

Set your own sizes

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2

3

4

5

6

7

Size CPU

Core

RAM

GB Storage

S 1 6 50 GB

M 2 12 250 GB

L 4 24 1,250 GB

XL 16 48 5 TB

BRONZE

SILVER

GOLD

Austin DC Bangalore DC

Satisfy application availability needs


Consolidation: DBaaS Architectures EM12c Supports Database Versions 10gR2 to 12c

Virtual Machines

Share servers

Dedicated Schema(s)

Share servers, OS

and database

Increasing Consolidation

Dedicated DBs

Share servers and

OS

Pluggable DBs

Share servers, OS

and database


EM12c DBaaS: Unmatched Architectural Choices

Virtual

Machines Dedicated DB

Dedicated

Schemas Pluggable DB

Consolidation

Density Low-Moderate High Highest Highest

Management Very complex (VM

Sprawl) Easy

Easy to Involved (based

on required resource

isolation)

Easy

Isolation Excellent Good Least Good

Implementation

& Onboarding Easy Easy Difficult Easy

Application

Suitability Some (workload

dependent) All

Home grown; requires

app validation

All but have to be

certified for Database

12c


DBaaS Resource Pools

Database Resource Pool A group of homogeneous clustered or non-

clustered resources exhibiting common

characteristics. Example:

Pool of 11.2 Database Oracle Homes

(for dedicated databases)

Pool of 12c Container Databases (for

PDBs)

Zone A logical grouping of cloud infrastructure

resources based on QOS, functional,

departmental or geographic boundaries.

Example, Finance Zone, East Coast Zone

Self-Service users provision into a Zone

Zones can also be used to enforce access

control and chargeback

11.2.0.3 DB OH Pool 10.2.0.4 DB Pool

12c CDB Pool

10.2.0.5 DB Pool

11.2.0.2 RAC DB Pool

11.2.0.2 RAC DB

Pool


Self Service Provisioning and Service Catalog

• Out-of-box self service portal

• Catalog of different database configuration with varied datasets

• Resource quota based on role

• Integrated monitoring, snapshot/rollback, etc


Automation for Databases

Dedicated

Databases Schemas

Pluggable

Databases Clones

Runs on any Infrastructure : Physical,

Virtual, Engineered Systems

Service Governance: Access Controls, Compliance, Quota, Showback, etc

Elasticity Service Provisioning incl’ REST APIs

Ongoing Operations and Performance Management

Consolidation Planning and Real App Testing

Database Private Cloud


Intelligent Service Placement The Best Fit Rule

Placement Constraints

Current Population

Current Load

CPU, Memory, and

Storage usage

No. of Service Instances Limits set on zones

and pools

Automatically find suitable target for placement:

• nodes for single instance and RAC databases • databases for schema • container database for PDBs*

* PDBaaS allows for custom placement - selection of the container database


EM12c Release 4 Plug-in Update

• Add & remove standby

• Externalized DB Size

– Separate from service template

– EMCLI verbs

• Improved customization: – Target Properties

– Sql post script

– Custom placement of PDBs


Incremental Enhancements

emcli create_database_size

-name=Small

-description="Small size database"

-attributes="cpu:4;storage:50;memory:4"


Solution Details

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APIS


A Large Financial Institution – Storage Challenges

1 - 3 Years SPARC x86

3 – 5 Years

Storage Cost / GB = $6.6/year

Estimated Annual Storage OPX

Cost “$198M/year” for Oracle

Environments

Applications Team: “1300 Apps

are utilizing private Cloud”

Storage Team: “We have 50 PB SAN.

Annual growth has ranged from 20-35%”

Database Team: “delivering

test data for UAT is a focus for private Cloud

this year ”

NonProductionEnvironments

AverageCostPerEnvironmentPerApplication

VerySmall(less<1TB) 1,400 300 5 2,100,000 $13,860,000 $9,900Small(1TBto5TB) 500 3,000 5 7,500,000 $49,500,000 $99,000Medium(5TBto10TB) 75 7,500 7 3,937,500 $25,987,500 $346,500Large(10TBto15TB) 25 12,500 7 2,187,500 $14,437,500 $577,500VeryLarge(>15TB) 20 20,000 7 2,800,000 $18,480,000 $924,000

Total: 2,020 18,525,000 $122,265,000 $60,527

OracleDBSize

EstimatedStorage(GB)Requirements

AverageNumberofNon-prod

Environments

AverageDBSize(GB)

Numberof

Applications

EstimatedAnnualOPXCosts

5 to 7 non-prod clones per production database

18 of 30 PB for non-prod Oracle environments

$122M of $198M for non-prod clones


Process Challenges

“Database Refresh is a

necessary evil!”

70000 refresh/year

2000+

Dev/Test DB

3 – 5 TB

Typical DB size

RMAN full clones

10 - 20 issues/day

EMC & NetApp storage

- Christian Bilien, Global Head of Database Team


EM Solution – Data Clone and Refresh

Supports full and snap (thin) database clones

Technology (and Storage) Agnostic

End-to-End Automation – Prod to Test/Dev

Designed for DBAs

Integrated Masking & Patching (PSUs and Patch

Sets)

Available via Admin Flows and Self Service portal

EMCLI and REST API


Data Movement

Test Master Database

NAME SSN SALARY

MILLER 112-23-4567 40,000

SMITH 111-22-3333 60,000

Masking & Sub setting

Source Database

010110011

101001010

000111010

NAME SSN SALARY

AGUILAR 203-33-3234 40,000

BENSON 323-22-2943 60,000

Source DB Backups Mask / Subset Test Master Clones

Refresh

Data Guard Standby

Refresh


Data Movement Activity Breakdown

• Source DB – Identify production database for cloning

• Backups – Take regular backups [RMAN, datapump exports, etc]

• Mask / Subset – Mask sensitive data. Optionally, subset to reduce storage footprint

• Test Master – Sanitized copy of production data for use in dev / test environments OR a Data Guard Standby database

• Clones – Full clones for performance / stress testing; snap clones for functional testing

• Refresh - Keep in sync with data changes in production



Deployment Scenarios for Test Master

Continuous or Discrete Replication Standby / Test

Master Database Source

Database

Snap Clones

Private backups

(snapshots) for SSA

user

Continuous Discrete

Technology Data Guard, Golden Gate RMAN, Snap Mirror, import/export …

Data Refresh Automatic and instantaneous Manual and at scheduled intervals

Masking and Subsetting

Not possible At source (in production), or in place at test master

Replication Types:


Full or Snap Clone: How it Works?

Standby /

Test Master t0 t1 t2 …. tN

Scheduled or Manual Storage Snapshots or RMAN Backups of the test master database, called Profiles

Private backups

Clones • Clones can be created from a

library of profiles

• Each user gets a personal read-

write database clone

Test master is

regularly

refreshed with

current data

from production


Database Clones from Self Service Portal


Refresh Clones

• One-click refresh of clones

• Library of Profiles to choose from – snapshots / backups / Image copies

• The identity and configuration of the clone retained as before

• REST APIs

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Non Self Service (Admin) Flows

• Non Self Service (Admin) flows

• Ideal for POCs, one-off clones, and for test master creation

• Clone from a snapshot or to a point-in-time or SCN

• Integrated Masking and Patching (PSUs and Patch Sets)

• One-click refresh of clones from source

• EMCLI verbs


Its not all Cloudy!

emcli create_clone -inputFile="File containing properties required for cloning a database." emcli refresh_database -target_name="database target name" -target_type="database target type" -input_file=data:"file:path"


DB Clone and Refresh – Admin Flow

Mask

Subset

Update [Patch or Upgrade]

Change Configuration [SI / RAC]

Snap Clone

Use as Test Master

Version: 11.2.0.3

Config: 3 Node RAC

Data: RMAN Backup1

Version: 11.2.0.4

Config: Single Instance

Data: RMAN Backup1

t0 t1 t2 …. tN

Production Database Clone / Test Master

RMAN Backup / Storage Snapshot


Integrated Data Masking

• Supports use of EM Data Masking template (requires Oracle Data Masking and Subset Pack), or running custom sql scripts

• Mask sensitive data as part of one-off clone or test master creation

• For Snap Clone, it is recommended to only mask the test master, so as to retain storage savings post snap clone

Oracle Confidential – Internal

Production

Dev

Test

Clone

Test Master

Mask

DEPT LAST_NAME SSN SALARY

10 SMITH 111—23-1111 40,000

10 JOHNSON 222-34-1345 60,000

Data Masking Template


Supported Cloning Options

Software Solution [Vendor Agnostic]

Hardware Solution [Vendor Specific]

Full Clones Snap (Thin) Clones

NAS SAN

Database Native [Storage Agnostic]

RMAN Restore

RMAN Duplicate

Data Pump

• Leverage your existing investments • Cater to both functional and stress testing needs • Maximize for best performance


Snap Clone using Solaris File System (ZFS)

• Uses a single stock Solaris 11.1+ image – physical or virtual [NOT the Oracle Sun ZFSSA or ZS3 Appliance ]

• Supports any kind storage – NAS or SAN

• For SAN, mount luns as raw disk and format with ZFS filesystem

• Does NOT require the snapshot/clone licenses from the storage vendor, these features are available for free

• Additional features include compression, deduplication, IO caching, etc

• HA has to be handled externally either via Solaris Clusters, or by using HA features of the underlying hypervisor


Solaris File System with SAN Storage Network Diagram



• Ability to create thin databases from RMAN image copies

• Uses NFS v3 client embedded in database

• Supported configurations

– Single instance databases

– Note: Only file system support for this setup (No ASM)

• Supported Versions: 11.2.0.3+, 12.1

• Advantages

– Easy to setup

– No special storage software needed

– Works on all platforms

– Time efficient: Instantaneous cloning

– Space efficient: Create multiple clones based on one backup

– Uses dNFS to improve performance, high availability, and scalability of NFS storage

CloneDB using DNFS


NAS Network Diagram

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• Rapid clones of databases running on NFS mounted file systems

• NAS storage array registration using an EM agent as proxy

• Monitoring and Summary views for storage array

• Seamless automation across storage, host, & database layers – snapshot, clone, mount, create db, etc


Snap Clone on ASM + EMC Storage

• Ability to create ‘live’ thin clones of databases on ASM

• Live clone of the DB, NOT snapshot based

• Clone can be within the same or on a different cluster

• EMC VMAX (with Time Finder VPSnap) and VNX storage appliances

• Supports SI and RAC databases

• Supported Versions: DB = 10.2.0.5 or higher; GI = 11.2 and higher


Continuous or Discrete Replication

Test Master

Database Source Database Masking and Subsetting using EM

Option 1: Snap Clones

Private backups

(snapshots) for SSA

user

Option 2: Full Clones

Summary of Database Cloning Choices

Private backup for

SSA user •Storage based technology

• Saves space and time

• Ideal for "use and throw“ i.e.

short lived databases

• Suited for functional testing with

minor updates

• Storage Admin involved in setup

•Oracle Database based technology; Storage

neutral

• Restore time proportional to backup size

• Leverages existing technology and

infrastructure

• Suited for intense load and functional testing

• Completely managed by DBAs

Option 1: Snap Clone Option 2: Full Clone


Snap Clone Vs Competition

Scale, Scale, Scale

Supports 1 to 1000s of clones

Protects your existing investments

Choice between hardware and software solution

Use of trusted technologies like data guard for test master refresh

Part of Enterprise Manager 12c

Oracle’s flagship management product for all your database needs

In sync with DB releases (support for PDBs on day 1)

Secure and role based access control; used by Fortune 1000 customers

Protection from unnecessary point tools; reduce TCO


Test Master Database

010110011

101001010

000111010

Snap Clone with Oracle Engineered Systems

Enterprise Manager 12c

Exadata

• Compute nodes are used to run snap

clone databases

• The storage is external to Exadata

and served over NFS

• In case of ZS3 storage, all traffic over

infiniband

SuperCluster

• Solaris Zones or LDOMS used to run

snap clone databases

• Embedded ZS3-ES storage served

over infiniband

Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance

• Oracle VMs used to run snap clone

databases

• Embedded ZS3-ES storage served

over infiniband

/source [nfs]

.. more

/clone1 [nfs]

External Storage

/clone2 [nfs]


Solution Details

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APIS


Metering and Showback Tailored for different use cases and user types

Chargeback Administrator Self-Service Portal User Line of Business User

Showback based on fixed, utilization or configuration

Database performance metrics, configuration items, feature-usage

Can be extended to leverage other metrics, e.g: business transactions

Rollups based on LDAP

Tailored reporting for different user personas


DBaaS Chargeback Metrics (Out-of-the-Box)

VM Database Instance DB Service (*) Pluggable Database

Fixed Base Charge Base Charge Base Charge Base Charge

Configuration

Allocated Memory

Allocated Storage

HA

IP Address

Size

vCPU Count

Edition

Memory Usage

Option

RAC Node Count

Release

Storage Usage

Version

Edition

Option

RAC Node Count

Release

Tablespace Allocation

Edition

Option

Release

RAC Node Count

Tablespace Allocation

Version

Usage

CPU Time

CPU Utilization (%)

Disk Space Utilization (%)

Disk Usage

Memory Used

Memory Utilization (%)

Network IO

CPU Time

CPU Utilization (%)

DB Time

Disk Read (Physical) Operations

Disk Write (Physical) Operations

Network IO

SQL Executes

User Transactions

CPU Time

CPU Utilization (%)

DB Time

Disk Read (Physical)

Operations

Disk Write (Physical)

Operations

SQL Executes

User Transactions

CPU Time

CPU Utilization (%)

DB Time

Disk Read (Physical)

Operations

Disk Write (Physical)

Operations

SQL Executes

User Transactions


EM12c Release 4 Plug-in Update

• Improved Homepage – Getting started section

– Target and Cost Center assignment summary

– ETL job details

• Extensibility – Registration of any target type

– Promote any monitoring /configuration metric to a chargeback metric

– Enable chargeback on abstract entities e.g. backup requests, job executions, no. of tests, etc

• Lifecycle management through EMCLI – Add Targets, Assign Plans and Cost Centers


Cloud Resource and Request Management

• Manage Cloud Zones and underlying resources

– Database Pools, servers, storage

• Track resource flux, tenants, policy violations, etc

• Drill down into individual resources for deeper monitoring

• Monitor requests and failure rates and remediate bottlenecks

• Deep software and hardware management for Exadata – Hardware schematics, Software Topology,

ASRs..


Incident Management Monitoring by Exceptions

• Setup and apply monitoring templates based on desired SLAs

• Manage exceptions

‒ View, manage, diagnose and resolve incidents from one console

‒ Assign, acknowledge, prioritize, track status, escalate, suppress

• Accelerated resolution with “My Oracle Support” integration

• Integrated with external Helpdesk Systems

‒ Out of box connectors for Remedy, HP Service Center


Process

1. Pools subscribe to DB and GI images

2. New images automatically get deployed to servers in the pool

3. Self Service users or Admin can choose to migrate DBs over to the new home

Database Fleet Maintenance

End Users Self service maintenance for Database Cloud

11.2.0.3 DB Home

11.2.0.3 GI Home

11.2.0.4 DB Home

11.2.0.4 GI Home

Image Library

Benefits:

– Scale: Subscription based, automated deployment and at mass scale

– Reduced Downtime: Out of place patching and upgrade

– Isolation & Flexibility: Users to move to new software version on their terms

– Compliance: Drift tracking and real time reporting Admin


Solution Details

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APIS


APIs for DBaaS Providers and Consumers

DBaaS Providers: •EMCLI Verbs for CRUD operations on Zones / Pools / Service templates / Profiles / Quota / etc

List

DBaaS Portal API

Deploy

Delete Manage

List Zones

List Service Templates

List Service Instances

Request DBs

Request PDBs

Request Schemas

Track request progress

Service Control (start/stop)

Backup

Restore

Snapshot

Get Chargeback info

Delete Service

Extend reservation


Integration with 3rd Party Tools

OR

Out of box Self Service Portal

POST : https://example.oracle.com/em/cloud/dbaas/zone/82CF1C28FA20A18

3C99D138FF8065F19

Authorization: basic ZGVtb3VzZXI6ZGVtb3VzZXI=

Content-Type:

application/oracle.com.cloud.common.DbPlatformInstance+json

Accept:

application/oracle.com.cloud.common.DbPlatformInstance+json

Body:

{

"based_on":

"/em/cloud/dbaas/dbplatformtemplate/CC3BBB665A6BC6FFE040F00AEF

252456",

"name": "<Request name>",

"description": "<Request Description>",

"params":

{ "username": "Master Account username for the DB",

"password": "Password for the Master Account on the DB"

}

}

https://example.oracle.com/em/cloud/dbaas/zone/82CF1C28FA20A183C99D138FF8065F19

https://example.oracle.com/em/cloud/dbaas/zone/82CF1C28FA20A183C99D138FF8065F19


Customer Stories

Oracle Confidential – Internal


Reference Guide

1. Let us start with two customers: HDFC Bank and NAV whose focus was on massive consolidation of commodity infra into Exadata with appropriate consolidation testing and the rapid provisioning of databases. In case of HDFC, it reduced from days to hours and in case of NAV from days to minutes. The time difference is because HDFC is doing RMAN based cloning while NAV is provisioning binaries.

2. The second set of customers, Telecom Italia, PNC Bank focuses on standardization via Service Catalog as evident from the slides. Their aim is to reduce the number of configuration variants. In case of PNC bank, they also provision Standby environments via the Service Catalog, the first customer to do so. Telecom Italia has 200 DBs in the cloud environment today, will move to 2000 by early 2015.

3. Then we get into customers whose use case centers around data refresh. Societe Generale used to spend lot of time and labor just doing refresh for their DevOps environment. They are now using Snap Clone to perform agile data refresh in a storage efficient way. While Energy Transfer spent significant time refreshing their production-like databases in UAT. With EM12c, they can refresh all their databases using RMAN backups in a few clicks.


BENEFITS

Database as a Service India’s second largest Private Bank with nearly 2800 branches, 11,000 ATMs 20 million customers Employees: 56,000 Revenue: USD 5 Billion

FOCUS ON Consolidation, Self-

Service Provisioning,

Lifecycle Management

Reduced new database rollout time from 3 days to 3.5 hours

Standardized database offering for Developers and QA reducing any significant configuration drift and compliance challenges

Challenge: Database sprawl over 168 racks of real estate

Hitting performance ceiling on existing infrastructure

Rollout of new database services often wait on infrastructure; taking and average time of 3 days

Solution:

Run new database applications on Exadata while legacy applications run on IBM AIX

EM 12c based Self-Service Provisioning of databases

EM 12c Lifecycle Management features for Discovery, Compliance, Patching, etc

Case Study


BENEFITS

FOCUS ON Consolidation,

Standardization, Self-

Service and Chargeback

Time to provision databases reduced from 6.8 days to 18 minutes

Funding for additional resources is now targeted at the actual divisions/groups consuming them

Challenges:

Lack of consolidation due to heterogenous platforms

High complexity and disproportionate costs of legacy systems

Database provisioning average time: 6 – 7 days

Database Sprawl – Non-standard configurations and licensing

needs

Lack of accountability at department level for resource demand

and usage

Solution: Consolidate databases on Oracle Exadata and Sun Server

X2-8 (8) w/HP 3PAR storage on Oracle Linux

EM 12c with High Availability Level III

Self-Service Provisioning of databases with a well-defined service catalog of pre-defined configuration [Small to Large]

Migrate existing databases into the cloud platform

Case Study

Database as a Service Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration Pension services, Sickness/Unemployment benefits & Occupational rehabilitation for entire Norway population

450 local offices all across Norway - 14.000 Employees

Administers one third of the national budget


Legacy/Traditional/AS – IS

• DB design specifically for single application

(traditional approach)

• Provisioning time of database: Weeks

• 700+ different combinations identified (release-

DB Version / Release-Version OS / Hardware)

• Standardized DB Service (Catalog of DB Services)

• Provisioning time of database: Hours

• 3 Service Classes on 5 standard configurations

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c - DBaaS

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Server

virtualization

Database

consolidation

Schema

Consolidation

1

2

4 5

3

• Strong under-utilization of allocated HW resources • Shared HW resources with high utilization and efficiency

Telecom Italia: Transformational Private DBaaS Case

Study

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

Large Telecom provider in Italy with 7 Data Centers and 4 Service Centers


PNC Bank

Regional bank operating primarily in nineteen states and the District of

Columbia with more than 2,700 branches

EM Environment

• EM on Engineered Systems managing 5000+ targets

• EM12c application running on Exa providing single console enterprise view of operations.

• Exalogic and Exadata on Infiniband Network

• Three environments: Prod, DR, QA/Test

Key Business Drivers

• Standardization and Simplification through well-

defined services: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Platinum

• Cost Savings

• Consolidation -- Infrastructure, People

• Automation -- Self Service

• Improved Customer Response Time

• Capacity on the floor vs purchasing per

project

• Showback

Case

Study

FOCUS ON Monitoring, Provisioning

via Service Catalog


One of the largest European financial services groups, with group net income

of €23 billion 2012.

54,000 employees, 76 countries, and 32 million clients worldwide

Customer Pains

• Societe Generale (SG) had been experiencing

long delays to provide a complete DB

Environment, with complex request procedures

for its developers that handle 2,000+ developers

• 70000+ full DB refreshes/year

• 10-20 cloning issues/day

• Majority refreshes scheduled; 10% on demand

• Solution

• Enterprise Manager Snap Clone on

NetApp

• Refresh takes couple of minutes

• Cloning from Standby databases; no

impact on production

• Using REST APIs; zero manual

intervention

Case

Study

FOCUS ON Storage Consolidation,

Snap Clone


One of the largest and most diversified midstream service providers in the

country. Over 71,000 miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), refined

products, and crude oil pipelines today.

Customer Pains

• Energy Transfer (ET) DBA team needs to clone and

refresh databases for non- production use.

• 200+ databases running on ASM on Solaris, Linux,

and Windows

• 72 refreshes per year for a single group; unable to

scale to other groups

• Avg. takes 16 hrs end-to-end to refresh a single

database; mostly manual and requires significant

post processing steps

• Using RMAN duplicate or Imp/Exp; unnecessary

load on production databases

• Solution

• Enterprise Manager Data Cloning using

RMAN backups

• End-to-end automation - taking backups,

staging in central location, creation of

clones with custom modifications, notify via

email

• Faster, repeatable refresh process;

complete process takes only 8 hours

• Using APIs; minimal manual intervention

• Saved ~79K per year just for data refresh

Case

Study

FOCUS ON Faster, and Repeatable

Automation


Cloud Management Pack for Oracle Database Summary

Metering, Chargeback

Supports Databases, Schema, and PDBs

Database Cloning Full clones and Snap Clones (thin clones)

Quota and Policy based Management

Self-Service Provisioning

Enforces governance and control

Supports Database, Schema, and PDBs

Comprehensive REST and EMCLI APIs For all self service and admin functions

Enterprise-wide Service Catalog Role based, Single catalog, to enforce standardization across the DB estate


Key Takeaways

EM12c Cloud Management Pack for Database lets you …

• Jumpstart your journey to Private DBaaS

• Choose from various architectures: VMs, physical, schema, multitenant databases

• Supports various service levels (single instance, HA, DR), and DB sizes

• Enables consolidation and saves $$$ for compute and storage

• Snap Clone or full clone databases for performance or functional testing

• Patch and maintain provisioned resources with near zero downtime and minimal DBA time

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