Selling the Database Edition for Oracle on HP-UX

November 2000

The NeedKey Customer Concerns

Continuous availability (24x7) of mission-critical Oracle databases• How much does downtime cost your business in regard

to lost user productivity, reduced company revenue, poor customer service?

Faster access to data• Are you using file systems or raw disk partitions to

Oracle data?

Easier management of increasing data• Do your DBAs have to learn how to manage raw disk

partitions to gain database performance?

Building the Solution

What is the customer using, and how does this product fit into their installation?• HP-UX 11.0

– New Installations

– Upgrading OS

• Oracle7.3 or later (inclusive of Oracle8i)– Upgrading database or

– Database can withstand some downtime

VERITAS Database Edition 2.1.1

Integration of online and offline storage management for HP environments

BuildingBlocks

Oracle

VERITAS Volume Manager

Database Edition for Oracle

VxDBA Utility

OnlineJFS File System (fulfilled by HP)

Storage Checkpoints & Quick I/O

Product PositioningFor DBAs facing immense time pressure in an environment with ever-increasing data, VERITAS Database Edition for Oracle offers raw device performance with file system manageability.• Increases availability of Oracle databases• Offers equal to raw device performance • Offers ease of management of file systems• Virtually eliminates database backup window• Speeds database recovery

Database Edition for OracleProduct Positioning

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Feature Overview

Quick I/O• Raw device performance with file system

manageability• Up to 200% performance improvement over

traditional buffered file system• Cached Quick I/O not available

Protection from disk failures with fault-tolerant storage options

Online administration of database storage

Feature Overview

Storage Checkpoints• Enables Block-Level Incremental Backup• Enables Storage Rollback for immediate

“point-in-time” recovery from on-disk images

VxDBA utility

• Manages Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback and monitors file system space

Java-based Storage Administrator GUI• Visual configuration from a single console

Building Oracle Databases onRaw Disks vs. File Systems

Unique, total storage foundation solution to deliver the best of both worlds

Manageability “Invisible” locations for tablespaces Difficult to grow tablespaces

Database Edition for Oracle

Performance Best OLTP

performance

DataReliability No potential

for data losswith datawritten todisks directly

DisadvantagesAdvantages

Raw Disks

Performance Lower database

throughput (30-90% of

raw disk) Higher CPU

overhead

Data Reliability Potential

data loss

Advantages

Manageability Tablespace

organization System-wide

backup and restorepolicies

Easy to create and expandfiles for Oracle

Disadvantages

Conventional File Systems

Raw Device PerformanceQuick I/O for Databases

Breakthrough VERITAS File System interface technology

Presents regular VERITAS File System files to Oracle as raw character devices

• Allows parallel updates to database files for increased throughput• Takes advantage of asynchronous I/O • Oracle handles locking for data integrity

HP’s Online JFS File System is a OEM version of VERITAS File System

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Quick I/O PerformanceComparison to Raw I/O

Database Edition has equal to raw performance• Up to 200% performance improvement over traditional file systems

Tested configurationincluded:

•HP N (4 CPUs and 1 GB of RAM) •HP-UX 11.0 (64-bit)•Database Edition 2.1 for Oracle•Oracle 8.0.5 (64-bit)•TPC-C scale factor of 100 warehouses

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Key Differentiator:VERITAS Storage Checkpoints

Point-in-time snapshot of database

Storage Checkpoints maintain changed data blocks as database is being updated• Uses efficient copy-on-write technique• No post-processing needed to scan for

changed data blocks

Uses of Storage Checkpoints

Storage Rollback: • VxDBA utility manages Storage

Checkpoints for faster database recoverability from on-disk backup image

• Protects from logical errors• What-if analysis

Block-Level Incremental Backup: • NetBackup manages Storage Checkpoints

and extracts only the changed blocks• Virtually eliminates database backup

window

Storage Rollback

Storage Checkpoints are on-disk backup images• Consistent, stable images of a file system at a

particular point in time

Storage Rollback is “restore” from the on-disk backup images or Storage Checkpoints• Copies before-images of data blocks back to the

live file system• Restores without going to tapes

Storage Rollback

Rollback from Storage Checkpoints=

Simply write back changed (blue) blocks to previous state and then apply redo logs to bring database to desired point in time

Managed by VxDBA utility

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NetBackup Server

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Minimize Your Database

Backup Window

Database Edition:Block-Level Incremental BackupsBack up only changed data blocks!

Higher data availability• Virtually eliminates backup windows• Allows more frequent backup schedulesBackups contain up-to-date data

Enhanced performance• Significantly lowers CPU and network

resource drain during backups• Faster recovery from backups (less redo logs

to apply)

Requires NetBackup Server engine and database server to be a NetBackup client

VERITAS Storage Administrator

Visual configuration management and performance analysis

• Allows one-step graphical execution of common configuration management steps

Product Description

Hosts Supported• HP-UX 11.0

• MC/ServiceGuard not supported

System Requirements• Oracle7.3 to 8i ORACLE VALIDATED

Physical Packaging• Enables the license key for OnlineJFS File System• VERITAS Quick I/O• VERITAS Volume Manager• VxDBA utility to manage Storage Checkpoints and Storage

Rollback

Product Description (cont.)

Educational Packages• Database Edition for Oracle class now available

though Solaris specific

Consulting Packages• Any standard package if necessary

Support Packages• Direct Assist Support (5x12)• Premier Direct Assist Support (7x24)

Features & Benefits

Quick I/O

Equal to raw performance with file system manageability

Online database administrationReduces production database downtime

Block-Level Incremental Backup SupportMinimizes database backup window

Storage Checkpoint & RollbackFaster database recoverability

Automated file system growth Proactive system administration

When Selling on HP-UX

Up to 200% performance increase over running Oracle on traditional buffered file systemEnables HP OnlineJFS File System that is an OEM version of VERITAS File SystemStorage Edition assumes LVM running underneath; Database Edition runs on VxVM

Storage Edition supports MC/ServiceGuard;

Database Edition does not

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