Protecting Oracle Databases with Zerto Virtual Replication
VERSION 2
November 2015
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1.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................ 4
1.2 Challenges of Protecting Oracle Databases ................................................................... 4
1.3 Benefits of Protecting Oracle Databases with Zerto ...................................................... 5
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2.1 Software Components ................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Virtual Protection Groups .............................................................................................. 7
2.3 Point in Time Recovery Journaling ................................................................................. 7
2.4 No-Impact DR Testing .................................................................................................... 7
2.5 Temporary Tablespace Optimization ............................................................................. 7
2.6 WAN Compression & Bandwidth Optimization ............................................................. 8
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3.1 Transactional Consistency ............................................................................................. 9
3.2 Multi-VM Application Consistency ................................................................................ 9
3.3 Replication Methods ...................................................................................................... 9
3.4 Initial Data Synchronization ........................................................................................... 9
3.5 Continuous Data Protection ........................................................................................ 10
3.6 Bitmap Sync Protection................................................................................................ 10
3.7 Delta Sync Protection................................................................................................... 10
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4.1 Application Consistency ............................................................................................... 12
4.2 Application Consistency in Windows ........................................................................... 12
4.3 Application Consistency in Linux .................................................................................. 13
4.4 Database Recovery Operations.................................................................................... 13
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5.1 Zerto Virtual Manager ................................................................................................. 14
5.2 Zerto Virtual Replication Appliances ............................................................................ 14
5.3 Configure Replication................................................................................................... 14
5.4 Execute DR Test ........................................................................................................... 15
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6.1 VMware Support .......................................................................................................... 15
6.2 Hyper-V Support .......................................................................................................... 15
6.3 AWS Support ................................................................................................................ 15
6.4 Zerto Support ............................................................................................................... 16
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7.1 Automatic Storage Management (ASM) ...................................................................... 17
7.2 Oracle Clustered File System (OCFS) ............................................................................ 17
7.3 Oracle Data Guard ....................................................................................................... 17
7.4 Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) ........................................................................ 18
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8.1 Licensing Overview ...................................................................................................... 19
8.2 Production Site Licensing ............................................................................................. 19
8.3 Recovery Site Licensing ................................................................................................ 19
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9.1 Performance Impact of Replication ............................................................................. 21
9.2 Oracle Temporary Tablespace Optimization ............................................................... 21
9.3 WAN Sizing ................................................................................................................... 21
9.4 VRA Configuration........................................................................................................ 21
9.5 VPG Design ................................................................................................................... 22
9.6 VPG SLAs ...................................................................................................................... 22
9.7 Journaling ..................................................................................................................... 23
9.8 Datastore Configuration .............................................................................................. 23
9.9 Networking Configuration ........................................................................................... 23
9.10 Failover Testing ............................................................................................................ 24
9.11 Failover, Move & Failback ............................................................................................ 24
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10.1 VMware Recommendation Summary .......................................................................... 26
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