Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Oracle Databases

SOLUTION PROFILE
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Oracle Databases:
Oracle Single Instance and Oracle Real Application Clusters Solutions
Converged Infrastructure Solution Lowers TCO,
Meets Oracle Performance, Resilience and
Mission-Critical Operations Requirements
You rely on Oracle databases and applications to support
your business objectives, accelerate innovation and maximize
services for your customers. You demand increasing
performance from your Oracle environments even while you
are mindful of keeping costs low. What’s more, you can’t
afford downtime within your infrastructure: Each hour offline
means lost revenue, lost customers and lost opportunities.
Organizations running Oracle can meet for performance
and scalability demands while lowering total cost of
ownership (TCO) with Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
(UCP) for Oracle Databases. Hitachi UCP for Oracle
Databases meets demanding online transaction processing
(OLTP) or analytics and scalability needs. It also serves
mission-critical resilience requirements to avoid unplanned
downtime and data outages.
Hitachi UCP for Oracle Databases is available in a scale-up
configuration for Oracle single instance deployments or
a compute, scale-out cluster for Oracle Real Application
Clusters (RAC).
IT Agility: Oracle Database
Responsiveness to Business Needs
Increasing IT agility serves an enterprise by enabling
rapid deployment of databases and associated
applications. These capabilities help you achieve
your business goals, such as increasing customer
attainment or retention, regional expansion, mergers
and acquisitions, or new supply chains. Hitachi Data
Systems offers a single source for Oracle database
deployments with preconfigured equipment, reference
architectures, guides and services, to accelerate business agility and your pace of innovation.
Hitachi improves the agility of your Oracle deployments by providing:
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Predictable, repeatable, reliable results with prevalidated reference architectures.
Faster speed to deploy and increased ability to
meet changing needs, with a single source for
components and prescriptive guides.
Massive throughput and unprecedented configuration flexibility of Hitachi Compute Blade hybrid I/O
architecture.
Extreme reliability of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
(VSP) family and Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS),
for reliable uptime, automated load-balancing and
advanced features like Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (HDT)
and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP).
SOLUTION PROFILE
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Ease-of-use and industry-leading performance of Hitachi NAS Platform for
improved decision-making and reduced
operating complexity.
Nondisruptive, high-speed data replication for immediate use of data in decision
support, software testing and development, and data protection operations.
Snapshots and clones, which allow immediate use without impacting host services
or performance levels.
Delivery of high-performance and reliable
backup, recovery and replication solutions
via Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle
Recovery Manager.
Simplified and centralized storage management with Oracle Enterprise Manager
and Hitachi Command Suite.
Unique features in Hitachi compute platforms, such as logical partitions (LPARs),
symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and
N+M cold standby.
According to IDC, a full 23% of IT staff time
and resources is spent on presolution deployment, change control and supplier meetings1.
These activities involve time spent before an
IT infrastructure is ever deployed in production
to support a customer-facing application or
critical database. Converged infrastructure
solutions are fully integrated systems composed of compute blades, I/O acceleration,
storage systems, network connectivity,
and management software. They offload
systems integration responsibilities from IT
departments. By choosing a converged
infrastructure solution, you can save time that
would have been required to evaluate bestin-class technologies from disparate vendors.
Because there is no need for lengthy periods
of integration, sizing and testing to deliver
mission-critical and business-critical databases and enterprise applications, you and
your business benefit. Your organization gains
time-to-market advantages. A converged
infrastructure deploys your applications as
quickly as possible, streamlines operational
efficiency of systems management, and
lowers the overall cost of supporting your
Oracle environment.
Converged infrastructure solutions enable IT
to be highly responsive to the business for
rapid database and application deployment,
relative to the efforts of disparate technologies
IDC Survey of Converged Systems, July 2012
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Hitachi has a successful track record of over 20 years of
mission-critical Oracle delivery. Nine of the top 10 U.S.
commercial banks, 8 of the top 10 U.S. insurance companies,
and the top 3 U.S. telecommunications companies run
Oracle on Hitachi solutions.
from varying vendors. In addition to this
responsiveness, converged solutions are
expected to be high performing and highly
reliable for data availability; slow database
performance and lack of resiliency are
unacceptable.
However, converged platforms are only as
reliable and high performing as their base
elements. These elements include server and
storage reliability, availability and serviceability
(RAS); flash storage, server and storage performance; and a balanced configuration of
compute processing with storage.
Not all converged platforms that providers
offer are the same in terms of performance,
reliability, quality and flexibility. For example,
converged platforms for general-purpose
workloads may not meet the specific
requirements of databases. They may be
challenged to handle peak workload I/O,
low latency IOPS, sequential read storage
performance, block sizes and RAID configuration, complex query processing, system
robustness and resiliency. Furthermore,
they may not have the management tools
required to ease and simplify administration
for better administration efficiency.
The Hitachi converged platform for Oracle,
Hitachi UCP for Oracle Databases, has
been engineered specifically for Oracle
workload requirements, high performance,
responsiveness and mission-critical reliability. UCP for Oracle Databases can reduce
the TCO of your Oracle infrastructure compared to alternative solutions.
Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform for Oracle Databases
Hitachi UCP for Oracle Databases is engineered, pretested and qualified to provide
predictable performance and the highest
reliability in demanding, dynamic Oracle
environments. Hitachi has had a successful
track record for over 20 years of missioncritical Oracle delivery. This solution is a
tight integration of Hitachi Compute Blade
(CB) servers, enterprise-class Hitachi
storage, I/O acceleration and networking
elements. It is validated to ensure consistent, predictable Oracle performance.
Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership
For large-scale Oracle environments,
running multiple database instances can
quickly become a management nightmare.
Furthermore, the licensing costs associated
with supporting multiple, discrete databases
can drive up the overall cost to maintain
your environment.
Hitachi UCP for Oracle Databases has
industry-leading price-to-performance ratio
with up to 50% less TCO within the 1st year
of operation than competing solutions. This
converged infrastructure solution enables
database administrators to consolidate multiple database instances on a single converged
system. Hitachi UCP also includes innovative
features within the server and storage components that contribute to lower TCO, while
improving resilience and efficiency of available storage capacity. For example, Hitachi
compute solutions are the only x86 servers
available that offer LPARs, which allow you
to consolidate multiple databases on fewer
physical servers.
Since managing large Oracle databases can
overwhelm administrators, Hitachi offers
a single unified management platform to
manage UCP for Oracle Databases environments. With Hitachi Command Suite,
administrators can configure, provision and
manage their overall Oracle storage infrastructure from a single tool quickly and easily,
reducing operating costs and complexity.
Other innovative features that Hitachi UCP
for Oracle Databases offers include Hitachi
Dynamic Tiering and Hitachi Dynamic
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Provisioning. HDT simplifies storage
administration, solves the complexities of
implementing data lifecycle management
and optimizes the use of tiered storage.
It eliminates the need for time-consuming
manual data classification and data movement to improve tiered storage efficiencies.
HDP is thin provisioning software that allows
for a common virtualized storage pool. It
simplifies application storage provisioning by
allowing administrators to draw from a central virtual pool without immediately adding
physical disks. When an application requires
more storage capacity, the storage system
automatically allocates the necessary physical
storage. This just-in-time method of provisioning decouples the provisioning of storage to
an application from the physical addition of
capacity to the storage system.
Hitachi UCP for Oracle Databases also lowers
Oracle licensing costs through our unique
N+M cold standby functionality. You can configure “M” cold standby blades for each active
“N” blade. The standby blades are powered
off and not consuming data center resources.
In the event of a hardware failure, the system
automatically detects the fault and isolates
the problem by identifying the faulty module,
allowing for immediate failure recovery. This
functionality allows Oracle RAC users to configure fewer nodes for availability and save
those additional license costs. This approach
is for standby operations only and meets
Oracle licensing restrictions.
Together, these features can enable you
to significantly lower TCO associated with
running Oracle databases without compromising performance, efficiency or availability.
Compute, Storage and Management
Elements
UCP for Oracle Databases tightly integrates
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 (CB 2000) or
Compute Blade 500 (CB 500) and Hitachi
enterprise storage. Together, these balanced
configurations of compute and storage performance provide predictable reliability and
responsiveness for Oracle databases.
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TABLE 1. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM FOR ORACLE SOLUTIONS
COMPARISON
Hitachi UCP
for Oracle
RAC: Hitachi
Unified Storage
(HUS) VM
Hitachi UCP
for Oracle
RAC: Hitachi
Virtual Storage
Platform
G1000 (VSP
G1000)
Hitachi Unified
Compute
Platform (UCP)
on Hitachi
NAS Platform
(HNAS): Single
Instance
Hitachi Unified
Compute
Platform:
Single Instance
Server Model
Hitachi
Compute Blade
500 or Cisco
UCS B200 M3
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 or Hitachi Compute
Blade 500
Storage
System
HUS VM and
HNAS 3080
HUS 150
HUS VM
VSP G1000
PCIe-based
Flash Storage
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Fusion-io
I/O
Acceleration
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PCIe SSD Flash and Hitachi Accelerated Flash
Replication
Support
Oracle Data Guard
Hitachi TrueCopy synchronous
Hitachi Universal Replicator asynchronous
Oracle GoldenGate
Operating
System
Support
Hypervisors
Oracle Linux (RHEL compatible Linux)
Red Hat Linux
Microsoft® Windows Server®
VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V® and Oracle VM
Hitachi
Management
Software
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 conductor
Hitachi Command Suite
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
Hitachi Dynamic Tiering
Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2
Oracle
Management
Software
Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager
Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle VM Storage Connect
Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle Recovery Manager
Note: Software sold and licensed separately. HDS does not resell Oracle software.
SOLUTION PROFILE
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000
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Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, an enterprise-class server platform, features a
balanced system architecture that eliminates bottlenecks in performance and data
throughput. CB 2000 leverages embedded
logical partitioning (LPAR) features for
unprecedented configuration flexibility and
reduced cost of operations.
This blade server integrates network,
power and server resources into a single,
space-efficient, flexible solution. Its
rack-mountable 10U chassis houses up to
8 server blade modules. For I/O versatility,
there are 6 bays for internal switches and,
uniquely for a blade server, up to 16 slots
for standard low-profile PCI Express 2.0
cards. You can configure up to 64 PCIe
cards on a single compute chassis. With
sophisticated, built-in RAS features,
CB 2000 reduces the risk of unplanned
downtime for mission-critical applications
on Oracle databases.
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management modules, reliable backplane and I/O, N +1 or fully redundant
power supply modules, and N+M model
failover protection. There are “M” backup
blades for every “N” active server blade,
so failover is cascading. If hardware failure
occurs, the system automatically detects
the fault and identifies the problem by
indicating the faulty module, allowing
immediate failure recovery.
Performance. CB 2000 meets the performance needs of large-scale systems
that require high compute power and I/O
(via a hybrid I/O subsystem). In addition,
CB 2000 supports multiblade symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capabilities
on high-performance blades, allowing
aggregation of up to 4 blades to create a
single-server environment.
Scalability. The robust, rack-mountable
10U chassis of CB 2000 houses up to 8
server blade modules. With the X57A2
high-performance blade, 4 blades support up to 80 cores per environment.
Memory is expandable up to 1536GB,
and the I/O subsystem supports up to
8 expansion mezzanine cards and 8
PCIe cards for a single environment.
Virtualization capability can also be
scaled up: LPAR supports configurations
of up to 60 LPARs per environment.
Reliability. The CB 2000 chassis
is fully redundant and components
are hot-swappable. These components include: redundant switch and
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Configuration Flexibility. CB 2000
supports Linux and Windows operating systems, a wide range of virtualization solutions
in addition to LPAR, and industry-standard
PCIe cards. This support provides a high
level of flexibility and investment protection.
The system is also expandable in terms of
processor cores, I/O slots, memory and
other components. The chassis can be
configured via a point-and-click graphical
HTML-based Web interface.
The enterprise-class capabilities of CB 2000
also extend to workloads. CB 2000 allows
the most demanding workloads, particularly
I/O-intensive applications, such as online
transaction processing, to be run with
high performance, reliability, manageability,
scalability and flexibility. These capabilities
now make it possible to run mission-critical
applications and consolidate systems at the
application or database tiers.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000
(VSP G1000)
The ideal storage platform for running
mission-critical Oracle workloads offers
4 times the internal bandwidth, 3 times
the IOPS capacity and 25% better power
efficiency than the previous generation.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000
series is the new gold standard for enterprise storage. VSP G1000 series is backed
by a set of solutions and services, including thin provisioning with Hitachi Dynamic
Provisioning and automated data tiering
with Hitachi Dynamic Tiering software. VSP
G1000 series also includes 3-D scaling,
application-centric unified storage management and secure multitenancy, as well as
simplified, unified data replication across
heterogeneous storage systems.
At the heart of the VSP G1000 series is
Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating
System (SVOS), the software that supports
our industry-leading storage virtualization,
HDT, HDP and so much more.
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Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) VM
Hitachi Unified Storage VM can manage all
of your existing storage and consolidate all
of your data in a single, virtualized platform
to ease the management of information.
Hitachi Unified Storage VM is built with
trusted Hitachi reliability for application
availability, performance and lower cost of
ownership. Delivering enterprise storage
virtualization in a unified platform lets you
manage information more efficiently.
Hitachi Unified Storage 150
Hitachi Unified Storage 150 provides data
availability and features symmetric active-active controllers with dynamic load balancing.
Features include native multipathing and
host load balancing to spread I/O workloads
across resources, which make setup faster,
reducing administrator and software costs,
while optimizing performance.
With built-in automation that optimizes performance, your end users can be assured
that they will get the most out of their investment. Intuitive and easy-to-use software that
comes with the system has been designed
to simplify even the most complex operating
environments.
Meeting service level objectives for critical
business applications has never been easier
with a solution that provides the highest level
of performance, data availability and data
protection.
Hitachi NAS Platform
NFS is an agile platform for running Oracle
that combines low cost of deployment with
ease of administration and maintenance. As
a protocol, NFS is widely regarded as simple
to set up and easier to manage. Operations
such as volume and file system provisioning, scaling and management are handled
by NAS storage quickly and easily. Unlike
SAN deployments, there is no need for SAN
switches, zoning or server host bus adapters,
which increase cost. Hitachi NAS Platform
and NFS are ideally suited for simplifying the
management and administration of Oracle
environments. Adding Hitachi Command
Suite, which provides unified management of
file, block and object data, running Oracle on
NFS and HNAS can impact both capital and
operational expenditures. Hitachi Command
Suite enables a 40% higher terabytes-per-FTE
management ratio than competing storage
management solutions.
Hitachi Unified Storage systems with Hitachi
NAS Platform family were designed to meet
the rigorous demands of Oracle databases
without compromising reliability, efficiency, performance or low cost. As your Oracle and file
sharing requirements increase, these storage
solutions scale accordingly. They improve productivity and enable better decision-making,
while reducing the overall cost of supporting
your most critical applications.
Hitachi NAS Platform has an industry-leading
price-to-performance ratio with up to 30%
less TCO within the 1st year of operation.
HNAS supports massive consolidation,
enabling database administrators to consolidate multiple database instances on a
single system. HNAS supports file systems
up to 256TB, allowing you to use fewer NAS
heads to support your given workload. And,
HNAS offers block-level intelligent deduplication, which can reduce the number of disks
required by up to 30%, while improving performance by 10% or more.
Hitachi Accelerated Flash
HUS VM
All-Flash
Hitachi Accelerated Flash is
Benchmark
designed to accelerate the
performance of your Oracle
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databases. With integrated
Hitachi Accelerated Flash
storage, both VSP G1000 series and HUS VM
systems can deliver faster access for optimal
Oracle database performance. They also
increase efficiency through centralized management of all storage assets.
together, the software products in Hitachi
Command Suite use a common code
base. They leverage the same graphical
user interface and share a common look
and feel reducing the complexity that goes
into managing large-scale deployments.
Configuration and storage tier information is
combined and synchronized in a database.
Multiple products access data on this database rather than on separate databases,
which require larger data repositories that
could be subject to inconsistencies. The
new design improves the efficiency and reliability of storage management information,
and provides a consistent and more flexible
user experience.
Hitachi Accelerated Flash features a module
built specifically for the most demanding
Oracle performance requirements along with
improved response times. Hitachi Accelerated
Flash storage features innovative Hitachideveloped embedded flash memory controller
technology. It is designed to achieve higher
performance, increased durability, and greater
capacity compared to the commodity solidstate drives found in competitive solutions.
Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage is fully
compatible with all VSP G1000 series and
HUS VM features, including Hitachi Dynamic
Tiering for creating tiers of storage. HDT
allows the system to automatically optimize
data placement by putting the most active
data on Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage
when the highest performance is required. At
the same time it places less-active data on
cost-optimized, lower performance disk. Thin
provisioning is included to reduce capacity
requirements by increasing utilization of your
storage.
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System Management
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Hitachi Compute Blade management.
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 supports
up to 2 management modules for redundancy. Each module is hot-swappable and
supports live firmware updates without the
need for shutting down the blades. These
characteristics make it the best choice for a
highly available system. Each module supports an independent management LAN
interface from the data network for remote
and secure management of the chassis and
all blades. Each module supports a serial
CLI and a Web interface. The management
modules also support SNMP and email
alert notification so that administrators are
always notified of any issues.
Hitachi Command Suite features a unified
architecture for all data types that integrates
a portfolio of products from the bottom
up. Instead of separate products linked
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Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle
Enterprise Manager (OEM) allows database and storage administrators to monitor
their storage infrastructure from within
Oracle Enterprise Manager. It provides
real-time visibility into usage, availability and
performance metrics and enables database
and storage administrators to optimize their
storage infrastructure for Oracle database
applications.
Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle
Recovery Manager (RMAN) allows
administrators to manage storage backup
and recovery from within Oracle Enterprise
Manager. Oracle Recovery Manager and
Oracle Enterprise Manager easily integrate with end users of in-system Hitachi
ShadowImage Replication software to provide a complete, high-performance, backup
and recovery solution for their Oracle
databases.
Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle VM
Storage Connect allows administrators
to monitor and manage their Oracle virtual
server and Hitachi storage infrastructure
from within Oracle VM Manager and
Oracle Enterprise Manager. This Hitachi
adapter gains visibility into Oracle virtual
machine and health of associated Oracle
storage and Oracle solutions. It enables
configuration from a single interface database, allowing storage administrators to
manage services levels more efficiently.
Hitachi Storage Evaluator for
Databases
Hitachi knows that database performance
is a top requirement towards satisfying
your business objectives. To maintain top
database performance, Hitachi provides
Hitachi Storage Evaluator for Databases.
This comprehensive reporting tool analyzes
I/O details to aid database administrators
and storage administrators in optimizing I/O
performance for hardware configurations.
Hitachi Consulting
Hitachi Consulting provides a wide range
of application services for Oracle environments, including assessments and
readiness, architecture design, solution
implementation and deployment.
Contact your Hitachi Data Systems Global
Solution Services representative to develop
a custom solution for your environment.
They can bring in the appropriate resources
to develop the right solution for you.
Next Steps
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform solutions
have been designed to meet enterprise- level
database workload requirements with IT agility
and responsiveness, mission-critical performance and data availability. UCP for Oracle
Databases optimizes Hitachi compute blades
or rack servers, Hitachi enterprise-class
storage, and Hitachi software. It supports
mission-critical Oracle workloads and can
reduce the total cost of ownership to run your
Oracle environment without compromising
performance, reliability or flexibility.
Contact your Hitachi Data Systems or
Hitachi TrueNorth Partner representative or
visit www.HDS.com for more information.
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