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NetApp Solutions for Oracle


Reduce the costs and complexities of managing and storing information
KEY BENEFITS Double DBA productivity SnapManager for Oracle allows your DBAs to reduce the time it takes to perform backups, restores, and cloning by as much as 50%. Enable application recovery in minutes Gain the highest application availability through frequent space-efficient backups and restores in minutes. Accelerate time to deployment Create on-demand virtual database copies in minutes and deploy new applications faster than ever before. Enable cost-effective archive and compliance Architect a cost-effective tiered storage infrastructure for your information lifecycle management and compliance needs. Reduce TCO by as much as 62% An April 2008 independent study from Oliver Wyman found that NetApp provides 39% to 62%1 lower total cost of ownership in Oracle Database environments compared to EMC and HP.
1. Total Cost Comparison: IT-Decision Maker Perspectives on EMC, HP, and NetApp Storage Solutions in Enterprise Database Environments, Oliver Wyman, April 2008.

CHALLENGES In todays business environment, IT professionals are faced with several challenges, including managing data growth, protecting information, improving operational efficiencies, and maintaining service levels, all while budgets continue to shrink. To cope with these demands, IT organizations are relying on Oracle and NetApp to provide the robust infrastructure and applications that enable high availability, business flexibility, and lower total costs of ownership. THE SOLUTIONS For more than a decade, NetApp and Oracle have worked together on developing innovative solutions that reduce the costs and complexity of your IT environment. Our joint solutions enable your IT organization to: Empower DBAs to perform self-service backups, restores, and cloning Reduce costs and improve application availability Accelerate development and test processes Enable business continuance using flexible disaster recovery Implement cost-effective ILM, archive, and compliance

Empower DBAs to focus on value-added tasks With NetApp Snapshot copies, DBAs can quickly create space-efficient backups of Oracle Databases without impacting performance. Rapid application restores can easily be achieved using SnapRestore , which lets your DBAs choose and recover data from any Snapshot copy on your system. DBAs can even create clones using NetApp FlexClone software, which leverages Snapshot technology to create logical writable clones of databases instead of full physical copies. Snapshot copies, SnapRestore, and FlexClone technologies are all integrated into NetApp SnapManager for Oracle, which provides your database administrators (DBAs) with data management software that allows them to maximize their efficiencies in supporting your critical Oracle environments. SnapManager for Oracle provides your DBAs with an intuitive graphical user interface to easily perform database backups, restores, and other storage-related tasks without requiring storage administrator involvement. With NetApp FlexClone technology, SnapManager for Oracle can create instantaneous copies of databases that use no additional physical

space until changes are made. As a result, DBAs can spend up to 50% less time on routine tasks and focus more on projects that will help the business gain competitive advantage. Leverage virtualized grids to reduce costs and improve utilization As the amount of data continues to rise, companies have deployed additional systems to meet their needs. However, these systems were often incompatible, had limited scalability and low utilization, and resulted in higher management and maintenance costs. NetApp and Oracle provide you with a virtualized grid computing platform that allows you to standardize, consolidate, and virtualize your IT infrastructure using lower-cost, modular, and standards-based systems that help you cost-effectively scale as your needs grow. Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), a key enabler of the Oracle grid, provides the unlimited scalability and high availability demanded in grid environments. NetApp complements Oracle RAC capabilities with highly available and scalable storage systems that provide the critical services that grid environments need, such as rapid provisioning, frequent backups, fast restores, space-efficient cloning, and flexible

disaster recovery. In addition, virtualization capabilities from Oracle VM and NetApp thin provisioning functionality using FlexVol not only help further your consolidation efforts but also contribute to reducing power, space, and cooling requirements as well as improving storage efficiencies to achieve up to 80% utilization rates. Trim months from application time to deployment The development and test (dev/test) process requires that you create writable copies, or clones, of your Oracle Databases. Traditional cloning methods, however, not only have been time consuming but also require large amounts of additional storage space. Using NetApp FlexClone technology, your developers can instantly clone full databases in minutes and provide several copies of database instances for development, test, quality assurance, training, and more. Teams can engage in parallel processes, reduce the time it takes to deploy applications and services, and realize revenues sooner. Combining FlexClone and other NetApp technologies with Oracle Database 11gs Real Application Testing can improve the dev/test process even further. Unlike other

testing methodologies, which exercise the entire application stack and require complicated infrastructure to run, Real Application Testing simply captures transactions and timings at the database level for replay. No clients or middle tier is required. NetApp Snapshot provides a point-in-time-copy of the Oracle Database at the time of the Real Application Testing capture process. SnapMirror replicates the data to the dev/test site. The workload is then replayed against multiple FlexClone volumes, enabling you to run multiple tests in parallel and enabling several development teams to work on projects concurrently. With NetApp and Oracle, you can accelerate development and test cycles from months to weeks and deploy applications faster than ever before. Affordably protect all your applications There is no question that high system availability is imperative to staying competitive. However, the high cost of disaster recovery solutions has led companies to protect only their most mission-critical applications, leaving other applications at the risk of unplanned downtime. By combining network and storage efficiencies

with operational simplicity and flexibility, NetApp lowers the overall costs of diskbased disaster recovery. In addition, NetApp has partnered with Oracle to develop a disaster recovery solution for applications running on Oracle Fusion Middleware. As a result, you can affordably leverage the speed and reliability benefits of a disk-based disaster recovery solution to protect all of your Oracle Applications. Your NetApp disaster recovery system can be put to further business use as an additional dev/test system. Instant writable copies of mirrored data can be made for development and test without disrupting disaster readiness. In addition, the writable copies or clones can be used to test disaster recovery system readiness, assuring business continuity. By combining disaster recovery with dev/test capabilities on a single platform, not only can you maximize your asset utilization, you also gain further risk mitigation benefits. Reduce information lifecycle management costs with a unified architecture Information lifecycle management (ILM) enables efficient management and migration of data using different tiers of storage.

Typically, active data is stored on highperformance storage, less active data is migrated to lower-cost storage, and historical data is often archived using an online diskbased solution and/or on offline tape. In typical ILM implementations, all of these tiers are implemented by using separate, discrete storage systemsoften with different storage architecturesraising complexity and management overhead. The combination of the Oracle Database via its ILM Assistant tool, partitioning technology, as well as NetApp storage provides you with a cost-effective and flexible ILM solution for database data. Because of NetApps unified storage architecture, not only can a single NetApp storage system accommodate NAS and SAN protocols, it can also mix different classes of storage to greatly simplify the deployment and ongoing management of tiered storage. A plug-in allows NetApp SnapLock to seamlessly plug directly into Oracle ILM Assistant to make sure data is unaltered for specified periods of time. By applying NetApp SnapLock to appropriate physical storage, you can create writeonce read-many (WORM) volumes with a full range of performance and cost characteristics to meet your needs.

SOLUTION COMPONENTS NetApp solutions for Oracle combine professional services with the industrys broadest family of compatible storage systems and data management software. NetApp technologies include: NetApps FAS storage systems (FAS6000, FAS3000, and FAS2000) integrate easily into Oracle environments and simultaneously support all standard network protocols. Our V-Series product line (V3000 and V6000) provides an alternate way to use NetApp with any third-party array. Advanced protection software, including Snapshot, SnapRestore, and SnapVault , allows you to efficiently back up and recover Oracle information. SnapMirror, and SnapMirror for Open Systems replication software allows you to move data from any third-party production storage environment to a NetApp secondary storage tier for disaster recovery purposes. Advanced provisioning and cloning software, including FlexVol and FlexClone, allows you to make instant writable copies of production data while minimizing the amount of storage, space, and power needed.

SnapManager for Oracle software incorporates Snapshot, SnapRestore, and FlexClone technologies and enables DBAs to streamline tasks associated with backing up, restoring, and cloning of Oracle Databases. SnapLock is a flexible data permanence solution that enables you to meet the strictest data retention regulations or internal IT governance policies. A reference architecture for a heterogeneous development and test environment provides you with guidelines for deploying storage systems in environments that use production Oracle Databases on third-party primary storage and run NetApp storage in the dev/test environment. Additional details can be found in NetApps technical report library at www.netapp.com/us/ library/technical-reports. Oracle technologies include: Oracle Database provides comprehensive features that enable you to manage your enterprise applications such as transaction processing, business intelligence, and content management. Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers, enabling fault tolerance, improved performance, and scalability. Virtualize your server environment using Oracle VM, which supports both Oracle Applications and those from other companies.

Streamline the testing process using Oracle Real Application Testing, which provides database workload capture and replay functions to help you test changes against real workloads. Oracle Fusion Middleware is an integrated set of software products that support the development, deployment, and management of enterprise applications. Oracle ILM Assistant provides a graphical user interface for managing your datas lifecycle. NetApp and Oracle joint professional services NetApp Professional Services and Oracle Consulting have collaborated on a portfolio of professional services designed to help reduce complexity and improve system availability and performance of Oracle deployed on NetApp. This portfolio of services includes a comprehensive set of custom design and deployment services and fixed-scope accelerator services. Services include: Custom services: SnapManager for Oracle implementation Oracle Database on NetApp migration Oracle Dev/Test using NetApp FlexClone implementation Predefined accelerator services: Oracle on NetApp High-Availability Service (including Real Application Clusters on NetApp) Oracle on NetApp Disaster Recovery Service (including NetApp replication technologies and Oracle Data Guard) Oracle on NetApp NAS/SAN Implementation Service

In addition, custom services are available for virtually any specialized or customized Oracle on NetApp solution, including consolidation, architecture design, migration, or upgrades. CONCLUSION NetApp and Oracle have collaborated to develop solutions that help you manage data growth, maintain application availability, protect information, and improve operational efficiencies. Thousands of other IT organizations around the world continue to rely on NetApp to support their Oracle environments, resulting in numerous benefits, including: Reduce costs through consolidation to a virtualized grid architecture Improve application availability with frequent backups and rapid restores Accelerate application deployments using space-efficient database clones for application development and testing Protect all applications using costeffective and flexible disaster recovery Have efficient ILM, archive, and compliance using a unified storage architecture With NetApp solutions, youll be able to reduce the costs and complexities of managing your Oracle environment.

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