The document discusses vFabric Data Director, a platform that provides database-as-a-service capabilities. It enables database-aware virtualization, automates database lifecycle management, and provides self-service database provisioning. This reduces costs while improving agility, automation, and service quality for database management.

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vFabric Data Director 2.7 Customer Deck
Powering Database as a Service in the cloud

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Key Customer Challenges around Databases
Backup
Database
provision
or clone
request
Lead time
of days or
weeks
Automate Database
Lifecycle Management
 1000’s of databases to manage
with few DBA’s
 Long lead time for database services
for developers
HADR
Patching Cloning
Performance TuningSecurity
Monitoring
Testing
 Heterogeneous database
environment is common
 No single tool to virtualize and
manage the database infrastructure
 Require unified platform for diverse
databases
Unified Platform for
Database Virtualization
 Thousands of under-managed and
under-secured databases
 Fragmented database environment
 Difficult to enforce policy and
compliance
Corporate IT Shadow IT
Support Growing
Database Infrastructure

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Evolvement of Database Infrastructure
DBaaS
Automated
Lifecycle
Management
Database
Virtualization
Private Cloud

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vFabric Data Director Powers Database-as-a-Service for your Cloud
Enables database-aware virtualization on VMware vSphere and provides
database-as-a-service for heterogeneous databases
Reduce capex through
database-aware
virtualization
Save cost by through
database virtualization
Increase IT agility
Automate database
lifecycle management
Accelerate analytics
and application
development
Through self-service and
automation

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Key Benefits
Automate database lifecycle management
 Minutes to provision, backup, restore DB
 Single pane of glass to monitor and manage
Reduce hardware costs and license saving by > 50%
 Consolidate servers by 4X – 20X
 License saving by 2X – 4X
Increase application Quality of Service
 Scale dynamically
 One click high availability
Complete isolation between systems on the same host
 Protects databases and applications against network-based threats
 Higher level of consolidation
OpEx Savings
CapEx Savings
Quality of Service
Security

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vFabric Data Director Platform Architecture
6
Cloud Infrastructure Platform
vFabric Data Director
.
.
.
Enterprise Services
…
Application
Director
Cloud
Foundry
EMC
Data Domain
IntegrationGateway(RESTAPI)
vFabric Data Director
Provisioning
Backup/
Restore
Clone
One click
HA
Resource
Mgmt
Security
Mgmt
Template
Mgmt
Monitor
DBA
App
Dev
IT
Admin
Lifecycle
Services
Infrastructure
Services
DBA
Database
Catalog
Patch
Mgmt
Database
Ingestion

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Key Capabilities
Database-
aware
virtualization
Automated
Lifecycle
Management
Self service

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Accelerate Database-aware Virtualization
Challenge DBAs require specific knowledge about virtualization infrastructure
and tools to deploy a high performance virtualized database environment.
Solution
Data Director provides a unified platform with integrated capabilities and
enables DBA to quickly virtualize databases on vSphere.
Key
Benefits
 Simplify database virtualization using built-in workflows
 Standardize environment using database templates
 Migrate from physical to virtual using database ingestion (P2V)
 Manage the virtual database infrastructure using a single tool

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Improve IT Agility through Automated Lifecycle Management
 Automate lifecycle management and enforce policies using vSphere
capabilities
 Speed up application testing and troubleshooting
 Easy HA and dynamic scale
 Maintain compliance using seamless patch management
Data
Director
Benefits
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
DBA
Storage
Admin
Sys
Admin
 Costly and complex
 Not provided to Tier 2/3
Network
Admin
Today - High Availability HA with Data Director

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Accelerate Application Development through Self-service
 Fast database provisioning
 Integrated database refresh using database ingestion
 Achieve productivity gain for DBA’s
Key
Benefits
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
DBA
Storage
Admin
Sys
Admin
Network
Admin
 Days to Weeks
 Leads to Shadow IT
Provisioning Today Self-Service with Data Director

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Key Benefits
Database-aware
Virtualization
Automated Database
Lifecycle Management
Self-service

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Database Virtualization Example Scenario
Physical Environment
 3 different OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris)
 9 different Oracle versions
 51 Oracle databases on 51 servers
Virtualization Process
Virtualized Environment
 Standardize on 2 OS and 3 Oracle
versions
 Resource isolation for different
databases
 ……

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 Standardize databases deployment through pre-defined
template, profile and policies
 Flexible disk layout based on IO pattern enables high performance
database deployment
 Automated ingestion process helps migrate databases from
physical to virtualized environment.
Key Use Cases

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Deploy Standard Operating Environments
Improved
DBA/Developer
productivity
• Application database deployed on three operating systems and 9 Oracle versions
• Application database scale categorized into large and small
• Integrated template management helps enforce standardized
environment
• Set the resource profile and database configuration profile
• Expose complete parameters from database configurations.
+ =
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Deploy High Performance Databases
Achieve high
performance database
deployment
• DBA usually deploy databases across multiple data stores.
• DBA is lack of knowledge how to tune the configurations to deploy high performance
database in virtualization environment,
• DBA can define the disk layout and “Eager Zero Thick” or “Thin”
provisioning in the template
• Data Director can match the disk layout definition to the provided data
stores, for example, put the data disk into SSD while the archive log to
the normal disk.
• Support multiple data and log disks.
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Migrating Database from Physical to Virtual
Simplify P2V with
integrated ingestion
Two-step process:
• Use database ingestion to move the database into Data Director catalog
• Apply custom templates to deploy the database from the catalog
Migrate the database from the physical server into a virtual environment.
Data Director
Backup File Share
Database
Catalog
Large Oracle 11g
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Key Benefits
Database-aware
Virtualization
Automated Database
Lifecycle Management
Self-service
 Accelerate
database
virtualization
 Integrated
capabilities

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Fast Database Provisioning
 Automate and
standardize
 Provision database
within minutes
Ability to provision databases quickly to create development
and test environments.
Management portal for fast
deployment of databases
Database templates to deploy
certified database environments
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Simplify and Automate Backup and Restore
Backup and Restore with Data Director
 1 team, 11 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Traditional Backup & Restore
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
 Many scripts
 Many places for errors
DBAs and IT Admins:
• Define the backup policy, including
frequency, method, retention, PITR
enablement, etc.
• Allocate the storage
• Authorize
Self Service Users:
• Pickup the policy and backup process
automatically executed
• Pickup an available backup, or snapshot to
restore
• Pickup an time point to recover if PITR
enabled.

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Creating Copies of Production Database
 Easily create
and maintain
production test
environments
 Save on storage
cost
 Create database copies quickly and efficiently
 Maintain close to real time copies
 Mask sensitive data and destroy copy after job is done
 Create Golden Clone
 Linked Clone for creating copies instantly
 Clone refresh
 Post Clone Script and retention policy
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Application Testing and Troubleshooting
Faster application
testing and problem
resolution
 Ability to quickly recreate the failed environment
 Use a single tool to monitor gather end-to-end statistics
 Real Application Testing (RAT) environment
 Use Golden Clone to quickly create
a repro environment
 Dashboard provides single pane
of glass monitoring
 Centralized log collection
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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High Availability And Dynamic Scale
 Single-click HA
eliminates
complexity
 Better recovery
SLAs for tier 2 and
tier 3 databases
 Increased
application
performance
 HA for tier 2 and tier 3 databases
 Dynamic scaling of resources
 Replication
 Enable HA in the database template
 vSphere 5.0 and Distributed Resource Scheduling
 Add resources as needed
 Master vPG database with slaves to form a replication system.
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Automate Database Clone and Flexible Movement
 Automate the production to QA database clone and refresh
 Automate the packaged application deployment
 Facilitate the data movement process
Benefits
Backups
Data Director
Catalog
Prod DB
Dev DB Dev DB
New DB
Linked/Full Clone
Full Clone
Linked Clone
 Import backups to reduce impact on production
 Save it to catalog with pre loaded data
 Linked clone improve storage efficiency
 Full clone the entire machine to ensure the
environment is identical
 Self-defined refresh policy and expiration time
 Post-clone scripts to mask data
Save

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Simplify Patch Management
Simplify Patching Using Database Templates

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Key Benefits
Database-aware
Virtualization
Automated Database
Lifecycle Management
Self-service
 DBA-centric
platform
 Integrated
capabilities
 Policy-based
management
 End-to-end
monitoring

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Multi-Tenancy and Isolation
Integrated:
 Organization
hierarchy
 Resource
management
 Security
management
 License
enforcement
Finance HR
DBG-1
DBG-2
DBG-1
• Create hierarchy using Organizations
and Database Groups (DBGs)
• Assign resources granularly using
Resource Bundles
• Create DRS groups based on
licensed hardware
• Use Role-Based Access Control
Applications owned by different organizations
• Need security isolation across organizations
• Need resource isolation between applications within the organization
Solution Benefits
Use
Case

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Benefits
Enabling Database-as-a-Service
 Faster time to
market
 Agile IT while
maintaining control
Use
Case
Solution
Role based self-service portal for database provisioning,
backup and cloning.
Database developers wants to quickly provision and maintain
development databases.

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Key Benefits
Database-aware
Virtualization
Automate Database
Lifecycle Management
Self-service
 DBA-centric
platform
 Integrated
capabilities
 Policy-based
management
 End-to-end
monitoring
 Faster application
development
 DBA productivity

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What’s New in 2.7?

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Provision Any Database from Same Web Portal
Major lifecycle
operations are also
supported!

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DBAs Can Define Best Practices Based on Performance SLA’s
 Great flexibility of storage
layout for database VM
• Customize separate datastores
for OS, data, redo log and backup
disks
• Eager zero thick vs. Thin
provisioning per each data/log
disk
• Configurable mount points

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Users Still Get What They Need
All Oracle and SQL
Server parameters
exposed through UI
Users can still configure some
options and parameters, guided
by policy and best practices.

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Ensure License Compliance using Policy
 Ensuring that every database runs
on a licensed node in the vSphere
cluster is critical from a compliance
perspective.
 Data Director enable DBA’s to set
policies that will ensure database is
always deployed on a licensed
node.
 NOTE: You should refer to the individual
licensing policy of the database vendor when
using this feature.

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Deployment of Replicated Environments Made Easy…
 Replication is inherently hard to
setup and manage.
 Data Director 2.7 introduces easy
setup of vPostgres Replication
• Create as many slaves as you want
with a few clicks
• Promote a slave to a master from the
UI (Failover)
• Monitor progress of replication

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Integrate with vSphere Single Sign-On
 Register Single Sign-On
Service through web portal
 Support direct LDAP or AD
user login
• Only import users from SSO server
• No need to create native user
credentials

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Other Key Enhancements
 SQL Server Snapshot and Restore
• Enable developers to quickly revert changes without
DBA intervention
 Enhancing Template Building
• Can select OS template then build into DB template
 SQL Server aware HA on Windows VM
 SQL Server Name Instance Support
 User-specified names for VM host

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Appendix

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Most Customers Already Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
% of Workload Instances That are Virtualized
Source: VMware customer survey, Jan 2010, Jun 2011, Mar 2012
Question: Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are virtualized .
38%
53%
43%
25% 25%
18%
41%
56%
47%
34%
28% 28%
47%
57%
52%
41%
35%
40%
Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft SharepointMicrosoft SQLOracle MiddlewareOracle DB SAP
Jan 2010
Jun 2011
Mar 2012

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Oracle Support for VMware
 Oracle MyOracleSupport (MetaLink) 249212.1 defines Oracle’s
VMware support policy most broadly
• “Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on
the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on
VMware”
• VMware does not modify the native operating system
• Oracle RAC included for 11.2.0.2 and above (Updated Nov 8, 2010)
 VMware Support
• Will accept accountability for any Oracle-related issue reported by a customer
• Will help drive the issue to resolution
• www.vmware.com/support/policies/oracle-support.html
 Oracle does not certify infrastructure
• Oracle does not certify anything below the OS
• Example: Server hardware or storage

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Oracle Database Licensing – CPU-Based SKU Considerations
 For all of the following situations: License the full machine
 After being “fully licensed” you can deploy unlimited VMs!
Standard Edition One
-Licensed by socket
-Limited to two sockets
-Must license full machine
Standard Edition
-Licensed by socket
-Limited to four sockets
-Must license full machine(s)
Enterprise Edition
-Licensed by core
-Apply x86 factor of 0.5 to cores
-Must license full machine
Pricing per Oracle Technology Global Price List, October 20, 2011
$5,800 x 2 =
$11,600
$17,500 x 4 =
$70,000
$47,500x16 x 0.5
$380,000

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Licensing – Hard versus Soft Partitioning
 Oracle licenses with Hard and Soft partitioning of physical systems
• Hard = “fixed” – allows sub-system licensing
• Soft = “fluid” – requires full-system licensing
• After being fully licensed, a soft-partitioned server can run multiple instances
of Oracle at no additional charge
• This was largely academic in the physical realm
• In the virtual realm, this can potentially cause concern: How many DBs can a
customer squeeze onto one system?
• Only the virtualization solution limits the number of DBs on a fully-licensed box
 Oracle counts VMware as a soft partition technology
• Must license “entire server”

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vCenterCluster2
vCenterCluster1
Soft Partition License – Example in a Typical Blade Configuration
 A VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster with Oracle
• Four blades, each with 4 CPU cores – each VM is 2 vCPU (2-core)
• Solution
• Both Oracle hosts must be licensed for all 8 cores on 2 blades
• Same physical or virtual: (8 cores) x (0.5 x86 factor) = 4 licenses
• Free to move that Oracle DB VM back and forth between Host 1 and Host 2
• Do not allow Oracle DB VMs to migrate to App Host 3 or App Host 4!
• Create VMware vCenter™ logical clusters to isolate Oracle hosts and comply
• See Gartner Research Document ID #G00165003 for similar guidance
vMotion
Oracle
DB
“But Oracle tells me I have to license every
server in the ESX cluster!”

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Oracle Licensing Comparison – Customer Example
PHYSICAL VIRTUAL
ESX
8 core/96GB
8 core/96GB
8 core/96GB
8 core/96GB
X 12
Prod,
Stage,
Dev, Test
Siebel Loadstar OBIEE
Prod
Stage
Dev
/Test
8 core 8 core 4 core
8 core 8 core 4 core
12 core 12 core
Enterprise Edition Pricing per Oracle Technology Global Price List, October 20, 2011

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Database Backup and Restore
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
DBA
Storage
Admin
Sys
Admin
Operator
 Many scripts
 Many places for error
Today
DBA
 1 team
 1 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Data Director
 More OPEX savings
 Higher QoS
 Fewer errors/risks
Key
Benefits

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High Availability
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
DBA
Storage
Admin
Sys
Admin
 Many scripts
 Many places for error
Network
Admin
Today
DBA
 1 team
 1 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Data Director
 More OPEX savings
 Higher QoS
 Fewer errors/risks
Key
Benefits

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Database Provisioning
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
DBA
Storage
Admin
Sys
Admin
Network
Admin
 Many scripts
 Many places for error
Today
DBA
 1 team
 1 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Data Director
 More OPEX savings
 Higher QoS
 Fewer errors/risks
Key
Benefits

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Backup & Restore
Backup and Restore with Data Director
 1 team
 1 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Traditional Backup & Restore
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
 Many scripts
 Many places for errors
 More OPEX savings
 Higher QoS
 Fewer errors/risks
Results

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One Click High Availability Leads to Higher Quality of Service
HA with Data Director
 1 team
 1 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Traditional HA Setup
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
 Many scripts
 Many places for errors
 More OPEX savings
 Higher QoS
 Fewer errors/risks
Results

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Self-service Database Provisioning
Database Provisioning with Data Director
 1 team
 1 system
 Fully automated process
 Error free
Traditional Database Provisioning
 Multiple IT teams
 Multiple systems
 Many scripts
 Many places for errors
 More OPEX savings
 Higher QoS
 Fewer errors/risks
Results