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Table of Contents

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Challenges of Managing
Data Explosion

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FS in the past have difficulties with initial space allocation, robustness and reliability.

Provisioning type of stuff.

Oracle Cluster File System-
Cloud Edition

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Oracle Cluster File System-
Cloud Edition

Applications

Middleware

Database

Oracle Cluster File SystemCloud Edition

Oracle VM (optional)

3rd Party FS

Application

Managing ALL Data within the Cloud

Oracle Cluster File System Cloud Edition

Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

ASM Cluster & Single Node File System (ACFS)

Database RAC

ASM Files

DB Datafiles

DB Datafiles

DB Datafiles

OCR & Voting files

ASM

Disk

Group

Dynamic Volume Manager

Dynamic Volumes

ACFS FS
Oracle Bin

3rd Party
FS

Tagging

Replication

Security

Encryption

Snapshot

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Automatic Storage Management Overview

and availability

ASM
Disk Group

Key Benefits

Key Features

ASM Disk

ASM Disk

ASM Disk

ASM Disk

ASM Disk

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Sales Pool

Sales Clients

Back Office Clients

Most Critical

Least Critical

Back Office Pool

Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Enables Elastic Storage

Alert: Disk space low Add more storage.

Action: Storage added rebalancing started.

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Slide Goal: To provide a virtual demonstration of the product in action.

SLIDE IS ANIMATED

Modern application performance is made up of several interlocking pieces that span the technology stack. Much effort has been focused on delivering and deploying an application. However, this is not ultimately what an end-user sees. The end-user experience is defined by the runtime performance of an application. While many tools allow for monitoring an applications this, it is not enough. What is required is Active runtime quality of service management that can both identify bottlenecks and adjust resources to ensure the most important applications maintain their required levels across ever-changing demand.

Here we have an RTI datacenter with 3-tier and 2-tier systems operating within their response time objectives. We have 3 Pools in each of the top three tiers and a common storage pool for a total of 10 managed pools.

2. The QoS system compensates by adjusting a resource such as CPU shares while still meeting objectives.

3. Suddenly our most important DB server pool goes red for all Sales apps.

4. Resources, such as a server, are reallocated from our least important DB server group to restore performance

We are instrumenting the entire Oracle stack to enable us to provide true QoS management thereby allowing you in the end to effectively run your applications on cruise control.

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ASM Dynamic Volume Manager

Note: An AVD volume device may not be used as an OS boot or swap device, nor used as a root file system of the OS

ASM DG

/dev/asm/volume1-123

+DATA/volume1

OS

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The ASM Dynamic Volume Manager is a kernel loadable device driver and services that provides volume management services and a standard device driver (ASM device driver (AVD)) interface to clients (i.e. ACFS). File systems or other user processes can do I/O to this device driver as they would to any other disk device driver on the system. AVD is the primary I/O interface for ACFS to perform I/O and build a file system leveraging ASM as a volume manager. DVM is loaded upon ASM start up. The device driver is cluster aware and communicates with ASM for extent map information, extent rebalancing and I/O failures.

An OS device file is created automatically when a dynamic volume is created in an ASM disk group.

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What is ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)

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The ASM Cluster File System,(ACFS), extends Automatic Storage Management (ASM) by providing a robust, modern general purpose extent-based and journaling file system for files beyond the Oracle database files. ACFS provides support for files such as Oracle binaries, report files, trace files, alert logs and other application data files. With the addition of the ACFS, ASM becomes a complete storage management solution for both Oracle database and non-database file. ACFS scales from small files to very large files (exabytes) and supports large numbers of nodes in a cluster. ACFS is an extent-based file system to provide high performance and a utilizes a log based metadata transaction engine for file system integrity and fast recovery. The ACFS on-disk structure supports endian neutral metadata[u1]. ACFS file systems can be exported to remote clients through industry standard protocols such as NFS and CIFS.

ACFS eliminates the need for expensive 3rd party cluster file system solutions while streamlining, automating and simplifying all file type management in a single node as well as RAC and Grid computing environments. ACFS supports dynamic file system expansion and contraction without any downtime. ACFS is highly available leveraging the ASM mirroring and striping features in addition to leveraging hardware RAID functionality. [u1]Need to say why and benefit

Journaling:

ACFS metadata is logged

Extent based:

File system is allocated and managed as extents

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Whats New in
Oracle ASM 11g 11.2.0.2 - Patch Set 1

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ACFS Tagging

$ /sbin/acfsutil tag set r resume /dev/asm/acfsvol- 302/test/resumes

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1) Last bullet:- Security and Encryption do not really leverage ACFS Tagging

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ACFS Replication

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Key Drivers for Data Security &
Encryption

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), J-SOX, HIPAA

GLBA

Payment Card Industry (PCI)

EU Privacy Directives, CA SB 1386.

Adequate IT controls, COSO, COBIT

Separation of duty, Proof of compliance, Risk Assessment and Monitoring

Regulatory Compliance

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The need for Data Security solutions is being driven by two business challenges; regulatory compliance and insider threats.

Regulatory Compliance affects virtually every public company, especially those in highly regulated industries such as the financial sector. I'm sure everyone has heard of Sarbanes-Oxley. Others include the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). One of the really good things that has come out of the regulatory compliance push is that it has given organizations time and budget to go back and look at the internal processes.

The second factor driving is security is the desire to reduce the risk associated with insider threats. Some studies have concluded that upward of 80% of all threats originate from inside the organization. The issue takes on even greater significance when you consider the trend to outsourcing/offshore more IT functions.

Comment/Harsha Just want to mention that we mainly address insider threats and encryption with our featuresnot so much the other topics mentioned in this slide

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ACFS Security

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ACFS Encryption

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ACFS Use Cases

Data Type

Data Model

ACFS

ACFS

ACFS

Personal files

System and application files

Business data

Store Personal Files on ACFS

NFS or CIFS

Network Protocols

ACFS Network File Server

(NFS/CIFS)

ACFS FS

mount points

System & Application Files on ACFS

ASM Disk Group

Oracle DB

Binaries

SAP

Application

Binaries

Siebel

Application

Binaries

ACFS

File Systems

Oracle

EBusiness

Suite

3rd Party

File System

Business Data on ACFS

ASM Disk Group

BFILEs

Reports

ACFS File Systems

External

tables

Photos

Images

Medical

Images

"Oracles new security feature in ACFS gives us fine-grain and secure control over sensitive data that needs the extra protection.In addition, ACFS replication coupled with Oracle Data Guard provide a complete Disaster recovery solution for database files, external files and all other general purpose files in the OS".

Daniel Smith

Senior DBA, Carfax Inc.

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"Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) takes us a step closer to Cloud Computing and Cost Optimization. The new RAC Quality of Service Management (QoS) coupled with wider platform support for ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) and RAC One node enable predictable performance and higher availability, both essential in consolidated environments."

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One Integrated Solution for ALL Data

Always On-Line

Optimal Utilization

Scalable

High Performance

Low Cost

Simple

One Vendor for Support

One Management Interface

One Clusterware Framework

One Install and Configure

Cross Platform
Linux, Windows, Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX

Structured
Data

Un-structured
Data

ASM

ACFS

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Dynamic Volumes

Oracle Clusterware

Oracle Database

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RAC

Snapshot

Replication

Tagging

Security

Encryption

RAC One

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Add application layer on ACFS

Breakout slide for management

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ASM adoption

Update stats

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Some ASM Reference Customers In Production

Update customer list

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Storage Cloud

Cloud Computing Infrastructure

Application Cloud

Database Cloud

Storage Cloud

The data center has evolved. Mainstream customers have left the world of dedicated silos, with their physical, dedicated hardware, peak load sizing, and expensive management paradigms. Theyve moved to grids, virtualizing their resources to provide enhanced flexibility, better utilization and improved efficiencies. Now leading customers are taking the next stepconsolidating their workloads into clouds, where they can rapidly provision elastic and scalable resources for workloads, and provide higher service levels even in the face of peaks in demand, and external failures.

Were not going to spend a lot of time defining the database cloud, as there are many other presentations that tackle that topic, and theres not yet a clear consensus on the exact definition of a cloud. In general, clouds are pools of resources, that is, hardware, software, and storage, into which you can deploy applications. The resources are shared across multiple applications. Weve known this as consolidation and shared infrastructures, and in the cloud world its referred to as multi-tenancy. Resources in a cloud can be rapidly provisioned, often via a self-service infrastructure. This makes it simple to quickly deploy applications, test beds, and development platforms, increasing an organizations agility. The resources themselves appear to be elastic. They can grow and shrink on demand, appearing infinitely scalable. Management costs are kept low via centralized management and features to automate meeting QoS objectives. End-users need not be concerned with managing the resourcesrather they interact with managed services that allow them to focus on their core business. A final characteristic of the database cloud is pay-for-use-pricing. This lowers the entry cost for users, enabling new use cases that previously may have been economically unfeasible. One last pointa database cloud need not be deployed in a server virtualization environment. We will see there are multiple deployment models for the database cloud, which allow for deployment in both physical and virtual environments

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Production Site

Sales DB Pool

Sales Clients

Back Office Clients

Most Critical

Least Critical

Back Office DB Pool

Oracle ASM Cluster File System
Replicates Files for Disaster Protection

Oracle Homes, DB Files, Logs, Applications

DR Site

Oracle Homes, DB Files, Logs, Applications

Oracle DataGuard

Sales App Pool

Back Office App Pool

Sales DB Pool

Sales Clients

Back Office Clients

Most Critical

Least Critical

Back Office DB Pool

Sales App Pool

Back Office App Pool

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Show Whole site DR failover

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Example of automatic operations Backup of entire set of application files with a single

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