OneCommand Vision 2.1 webcast: Cutting edge LUN SLAs, AIX on PowerPC and flex...Emulex Corporation
Our customers look to Emulex OneCommand™ Vision for improved I/O performance and availability. The first part of our Performance Assurance Webinar Series will focus on how they can increase their performance and, ultimately their competitiveness, with the upcoming release of OneCommand Vision.
OneCommand Vision 2.1 includes expanded OS support, including AIX, as well as powerful LUN SLA monitoring that reports Class of Service, Path Availability and I/O size specific latency reporting.
Our Performance Assurance Webinar Series features case studies and tips most relevant to today’s data center needs. Join us to discover how you can use OneCommand Vision 2.1 to achieve Performance Assurance on your most critical servers and get the most out of your applications.
OneCommand Vision 2.1 webcast: Cutting edge LUN SLAs, AIX on PowerPC and flex...Emulex Corporation
Our customers look to Emulex OneCommand™ Vision for improved I/O performance and availability. The first part of our Performance Assurance Webinar Series will focus on how they can increase their performance and, ultimately their competitiveness, with the upcoming release of OneCommand Vision.
OneCommand Vision 2.1 includes expanded OS support, including AIX, as well as powerful LUN SLA monitoring that reports Class of Service, Path Availability and I/O size specific latency reporting.
Our Performance Assurance Webinar Series features case studies and tips most relevant to today’s data center needs. Join us to discover how you can use OneCommand Vision 2.1 to achieve Performance Assurance on your most critical servers and get the most out of your applications.
Emulex and IDC Present Why I/O is Strategic for the Cloud Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the third in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Rick Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud, IDC will present on the critical role I/O presents for public cloud service provider environments.
Netapp Evento Virtual Business Breakfast 20110616Bruno Banha
Apresentação efectuada pela Netapp no evento Virtual Business Breakfast, realizado no dia 16 de Junho de 2011, no Porto.
O evento realizado em conjunto com a VMware e a NextiraOne Portugal.
What an Enterprise Should Look for in a Cloud ProviderNovell
This session will address the security and compliance aspects that an enterprise should insist on from a cloud provider. The mechanisms for cloud annexation that provide security and compliance will be described and the architecture of Novell Cloud Security Service will be presented. Presenters will emphasize the contribution that Novell Cloud Security Service makes to intelligent workload management because of cloud security and compliance.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in Retail and ManufacturingNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how two retailers and manufacturers in particular- Save Mart Supermarkets, and Richardson- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in GovernmentNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The California Highway Patrol, Hudiksvall Municipality, Liconsa, Kent Police Authority, The Louisiana Department of Social Services, Texas General Land Office, DRV BW, and the Ministry of Social Development in Bahrain all use Novell Collaboration tools for their IT success.
Emulex and IDC Present Why I/O is Strategic for the Cloud Emulex Corporation
This webcast is the third in a monthly series on why I/O is strategic for the data center. Rick Villars, vice president, Information and Cloud, IDC will present on the critical role I/O presents for public cloud service provider environments.
Netapp Evento Virtual Business Breakfast 20110616Bruno Banha
Apresentação efectuada pela Netapp no evento Virtual Business Breakfast, realizado no dia 16 de Junho de 2011, no Porto.
O evento realizado em conjunto com a VMware e a NextiraOne Portugal.
What an Enterprise Should Look for in a Cloud ProviderNovell
This session will address the security and compliance aspects that an enterprise should insist on from a cloud provider. The mechanisms for cloud annexation that provide security and compliance will be described and the architecture of Novell Cloud Security Service will be presented. Presenters will emphasize the contribution that Novell Cloud Security Service makes to intelligent workload management because of cloud security and compliance.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in Retail and ManufacturingNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how two retailers and manufacturers in particular- Save Mart Supermarkets, and Richardson- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in GovernmentNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The California Highway Patrol, Hudiksvall Municipality, Liconsa, Kent Police Authority, The Louisiana Department of Social Services, Texas General Land Office, DRV BW, and the Ministry of Social Development in Bahrain all use Novell Collaboration tools for their IT success.
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The world’s information is doubling every two years. In 2011 the world created a staggering 1.8 zettabytes. By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers", while IT staff to manage it will grow less than 1.5 times. This session introduces students to various storage networking, & business continuity terminologies.
Get the latest update from Panasas on the status of pNFS - parallel NFS. This presentation explains how you can innovate faster, better, and at a lower cost with Panasas and pNFS, the emerging standard for parallel I/O and the next major extension to the ubiquitous standard, NFS.
VMware PEX Boot Camp - The Future Now: NetApp Clustered Storage and Flash for...NetApp
Business drivers affect the performance expectations of enterprise applications. Data infrastructure must be flexible and agile to support these emerging performance and availability requirements. This session will show you how to build a data infrastructure using NetApp's flash and clustering technologies that is flexible enough to accommodate those changing demands. The session will cover how to combine NetApp's enterprise flash technology (including host-based flash, controller-based caching, hybrid disk shelves, and all-flash arrays) with NetApp's Clustered Data ONTAP to allow dynamic re-optimization of application performance, with an eye on how workload characteristics drive architectural decisions.
An overview of Symantec FileStore, a new solution enabling organizations to build scalable, high-performance file-based storage services for their enterprise, including private and public clouds.
Emulex OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) platform enables efficient, robust and high-performance connectivity for all business applications while protecting IT investment in existing LAN and SAN infrastructure.
Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters enable consolidation of multiple applications on clustered server and storage pools-providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance and scalability. Learn how these technologies can be used to consolidate your databases onto a private cloud—and realize the efficiencies of mixed workload consolidation, workload and resource management, and dynamic provisioning for elastic scalability.
NetApp commissioned Demartek to evaluate its FAS3240, one of the members of its full line of unified storage solutions, for its ability to handle a full load of mixed traffic types simultaneously.
Converged Data Center: FCoE, iSCSI and the Future of Storage NetworkingEMC
(EMC World 2012 )This session explores the opportunities and challenges of using a single network to support both storage and networking. The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI (SCSI over TCP/IP) protocols offer two approaches for supporting storage over Ethernet. Standards, technologies and deployment scenarios for both protocols are covered, along with the future of storage networking technology.
The Efficient Use of Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Data Analysis CollaborationCybera Inc.
Dave Fellinger
CTO, DataDirect Networks
Presented at the Cybera/CANARIE National Summit 2009, as part of the session "What's Next: Key Areas of Emerging Cyberinfrastructure."
This session explored some of the up-and-coming areas of cyberinfrastructure and why they are increasingly being considered as essential elements to innovative research and development.
Personal storage to enterprise storage system journeySoumen Sarkar
A brief journey through storage wonderland. Notes are not visible when you view in slide share. However they would be visible when the slides are viewed in powerpoint [you have to download the slides for that]
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Note to Presenter: The presenter should review the following white papers before presenting this solution:EMC Performance for Oracle—EMC VNX, Enterprise Flash Drives, FAST Cache, VMware vSpherehttp://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8850-oracle-performance-vnx-fastcache-wp.pdfThis white paper describes the benefits of using EMC FAST Cache for Oracle OLTP databases in both physical and virtual environments. The Oracle RAC 11g database was configured to access EMC VNX7500 file storage over NFS, using the Oracle dNFS Client. VMware vSphere provided the virtualization platform for the virtual environment.Deploying Oracle Database Applications on EMC VNX Unified Storagehttp://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8242-deploying-oracle-vnx-wp.pdfThis white paper introduces how the EMC VNX unified storage platform can be effectively used for deploying enterprise Oracle Database applications. This paper also captures most of the Oracle performance testing done by EMC performance engineering. Some best practices for deploying database applications are also covered.EMC CLARiiON, Celerra Unified, and VNX FAST Cachehttp://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8046-clariion-celerra-unified-fast-cache-wp.pdfThis white paper is an introduction to the EMC FAST Cache technology in CLARiiON, Celerra unified, and VNX storage systems. It describes implementation of the FAST Cache feature and provides details of using it with Unisphere Manager and CLI. Usage guidelines and major customer benefits are also included.
One example of a customer who has virtualized their Oracle environments and realized tremendous cost savings is CLAL Insurance, one of the largest insurance providers in Israel.“Before virtualizing, utilization rates were typically in the range of 15-20% for our Oracle database servers. Since deploying VMware vSphere® on EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage platform we have almost doubled our server utilization rates through leveraging more Oracle instances on the same infrastructure, increasing our return on investment. In addition, migrating our Oracle database servers to the VMware platform and Linux has led to increased database performance and we can now leverage the functionality of VMware vSphere for faster server failover and high availability,” said, HaimInger, Chief Technology Officer, CLAL.
One example of a customer who has virtualized their Oracle environments and realized tremendous cost savings is CLAL Insurance, one of the largest insurance providers in Israel.“Before virtualizing, utilization rates were typically in the range of 15-20% for our Oracle database servers. Since deploying VMware vSphere® on EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage platform we have almost doubled our server utilization rates through leveraging more Oracle instances on the same infrastructure, increasing our return on investment. In addition, migrating our Oracle database servers to the VMware platform and Linux has led to increased database performance and we can now leverage the functionality of VMware vSphere for faster server failover and high availability,” said, HaimInger, Chief Technology Officer, CLAL.
Note to Presenter: View in Slide Show mode for animation.While FAST provides automated and efficient tiering over time, FAST Cache leverages enterprise Flash drives to extend existing cache capacities to automatically absorb unpredicted spikes in application workloads, and thereby speeds system and application performance for data that is not already at the Flash tier.Where FAST with Sub-LUN Tiering works at a very granular level of 1 GB chucks, FAST Cache takes this concept one step further by working at the 64K I/O level. By doing so, FAST Cache acts more like dynamic, but persistent, controller cache. By extending controller cache with Flash, the cache-hit ratio is dramatically improved. As a result, the new goal for most application workloads is to strive for a 90 to 95 percent cache hit rate. This is achievable because the size of Flash-based cache is up to 64-times larger than the controller’s original DRAM (dynamic random access memory)cache.Cache hit rates will typically go from one out of five I/Os served from cache to nine out of 10 I/Os served from cache, a 4.5-times improvement.FAST Cache may be added to existing LUN configurations and acts as a system-wide resource. With FAST Cache, you now have multi-terabyte, read-write, non-volatile cache—an absolute first for storage platforms in the midtier market. The fact that data is written to enterprise Flash drives means that when the system returns from a power failure or planned outage, the cache is already warmed up and service levels can readily resume at the point they were before the disruption.The size of FAST Cache is more than ample to catch transitory spikes in I/O demand. Should large amounts of Flash be needed to meet service level agreements, it is important to know that FAST Cache works in unison with FAST Sub-LUN Tiering and that the two technologies complement each other fully.Note to Presenter: EMC’s FAST Cache works for both reads and writes. Competitors, like NetApp, frequently only implement Flash as proprietary read-only schemes.
Note to Presenter: View in Slide Show mode for animation. Over the past two to three years, EMC has had 30 PhDs in its engineering department work with hundreds of customers and has analyzed thousands of applications' access patterns to information. EMC has collected over 2 PB of information and analyzed more than 80 billion I/O transactions of information. And a result, EMC discovered two 80/20 rules. The first 80/20 rule is that 20 percent of the volumes of an infrastructure are hot, and the other 80 percent are not. And the second 80/20 rule is that when you look inside a volume, 20 percent of the datasets inside the volume are hot, and the other 80 percent are not.So if you do the math and multiply 20 percent by 20 percent, you actually find that 4 percent of the volumes of your information infrastructure are active, and the other 96 percent are not. This means that an important design aspect in the building of FAST technology is that smaller is better. In this case, the smaller the granularity of data movement, the better the overall solution is for performance and cost.
Let’s walk through, at a very high level, how EMC implemented FAST.EMC’s FAST technology is architected around three engines: The first is a statistics engine, which gathers statistics about how your applications are accessing information. Note to Presenter: Click now in Slide Show mode for animation. The second engine is the analytics engine. The statistics are fed into the analytics engine, and it analyzes which datasets are hot and cold, and how that rate of change is occurring. So, how hot they're getting, or how cold they're getting.Note to Presenter: Click now in Slide Show mode for animation. The third engine is the movement engine. Recommendations from the analytics engine are fed into a data movement engine, which will actually provide the recommendations of which datasets to promote to the better performing storage, like enterprise Flash technology, and which datasets should be demoted to the more cost-efficient, energy-efficient, and space-efficient storage like SATA.Note to Presenter: Click now in Slide Show mode for animation. Then the cycle repeats as it continues to optimize your information even while you’re at your desk checking email, sleeping, and on vacation.
Note to Presenter: View in Slide Show mode for animation. Enginuity 5875 builds on the original EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) technology introduced in 2009.By employing user-defined polices, FAST is able to automatically transition hot and cold data spots to appropriate storage tiers, thereby taking advantage of enterprise flash drives for heavily utilized LUNs and low-cost SATA drives for less frequently utilized LUNs. By automatically recognizing hot and cold data activity—since some LUNs are more active than others—and taking appropriate actions, FAST is able to get the right data to the right place at the right time.
This diagram shows three methods to do storage tuning/tiering:Method 1 is Manual Method, which was not done in this use caseMethod 2 is deploying FAST VP (that is—automated tiering for virtual pools), which was not done in this use caseMethod 3 is the FAST Cache method, which was done in this use caseAs can be seen, the Manual method is over 9 hours and has to be done repeatedly manually versus the FAST Cache method which is done once to analyze the application workload and the rest is done automatically and continuously.To summarize:Manual tiering involves a repeated process that takes 9 hours or more to complete each time. In contrast, both FAST VP and FAST Cache operate automatically, eliminating the need for manually identifying and moving or caching hot data. As shown in Figure, configuring FAST Cache is a one-off process taking 50 minutes or less, and hot and cold data is then cached in and out of FAST Cache continuously and automatically.
This bar chart shows the impact of FAST Cache on IOPS in both the physical and virtual RAC deployments. For both deployments, it shows the IOPS without and with FAST Cache enabled.The figure shows the increase in average IOPS for the data file systems. In both the physical and virtual environments, as more and more hot data was cached in by FAST Cache, a 170% improvement in IOPS was observed.
SummaryThe testing discussed in this presentation demonstrates that when FAST Cache is introduced into the physical and virtual Oracle RAC OLTP environments, it reduces I/O accesses to the HDDs and directs them to the Flash drives, which dramatically increases the OLTP throughput and maintains very low response times. The overall application performance improves significantly as a result. FAST Cache technology creates a faster medium, on Flash drives, for accessing frequently accessed data at lower latencies. Hot data is cached in and cold data flushed out of FAST Cache automatically and transparently, depending on data usage patterns. This eliminates the need for administrators to manually classify the hot and cold data.The Solution Benefits are the following:PerformanceBy creating a FAST Cache with just four Flash drives, the performance of transactions per minute improved by over 100% for both the physical and virtual environments.Enabling FAST Cache improved the average response time by 84% in the physical environment, and by 79% in the virtual environment. Using FAST Cache as a secondary cache delivered a 170% improvement in IOPS. FAST Cache serviced approximately 95% of the read and write IOPS in both the physical and virtual environments. FAST Cache misses could still be a cache hit if the data is in the storage processor (SP) cache.Cost SavingsAnother important FAST Cache benefit is improved TCO. Using FAST Cache reduces the I/O to the back-end HDDs. This means that an existing set of HDDs can deliver the performance typically provided by a faster drive configuration, such as more HDDs or a different RAID type. In fact, over a period of time, the number of faster SAS drives may be reduced or replaced with slower NL-SAS drives, while maintaining the same application performance.Ease of UseFAST Cache configured with a few simple steps — enable/disable for individual LUNs with single clickEfficiencyData cached in and out of FAST Cache automatically and non-disruptivelyNondisruptiveLive migration of the Oracle RAC 11g R2 database from a physical to a virtual environment was achieved without loss of service.
And here’s an example of what that means to customers. Compared to single tier systems, FAST VP delivers up to 40% more application performance at a 40% lower cost while requiring 87% fewer disks 65% less foot print, and 75% less power. In addition to the cost savings, FAST greatly simplifies management by allowing customers to create tiering policies and allowing the VMAX to optimize the data placement across storage tiers with no additional storage administration.Not only does Smart storage make life easier for IT organizations, it actually makes life better for everyone by being more “green”. Power, cooling, and footprint continue to be a major Data Center concern. The energy efficiencies of VMAX combined with features like FAST will enable customers to reduce power consumption in 2011 by over 270 million kilowatt hours – enough to power 24,400 homes.
Historically, DSS workloads have not been a sweet spot for the CX4, except possibly for the CX4-960. The VNX changes this position. This solution does not leverage Flash drives or the FAST suite as the large sequential workloads do not lend themselves to this technology. The huge improvements in total throughput (particularly in the lower end platforms) can drive up to 4.5x the bandwidth. The CX4-120 can achieve around 750MB/s and the VNX5300 can achieve around 3,500MB/s! The cost of the comparable configuration in this case (Block-only VNX5300) is 84% higher than the CX4, however to achieve the throughput provided by that platform with CX4 would require a CX4-960 platform, which would be considerably more expensive than the VNX5300. Main takeaway: VNX is a GREAT solution for DSS workloads.
VFCache puts Flash in the server as a cache to dramatically improve application performance. It is a hardware and software solution that leverages PCIe Flash technology and intelligent caching software to reduce latency and increase throughput. VFCache works in conjunction with the back-end storage array to provide two significant benefits. First, as an extension of EMC FAST array-based technology, it facilitates an intelligent end-to-end data tiering strategy from the storage to the server. Second, it provides this performance and intelligence with protection. EMC has been the leader in Flash since it introduced solid state drives in 2008. Now, with VFCache, that lead has been extended yet again.
Next, let’s look at event-based backup, a NetWorker and NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications capability for protection. Event-based backups use a feature in NetWorker known as Probes to trigger backups based on some external event other than a scheduled time. As data can be quite dynamic, it may be that the best time to back up may not always be on a scheduled day and time. It may be that some condition of the application server is a better indicator of when a backup is needed, for instance, when a disk is full, a business condition exists, or a log count requires backup.
RecoverPoint is an advanced enterprise-class disaster recovery solution designed with the performance, reliability, and flexibility required for enterprise applications in heterogeneous storage and server environments. It provides bi-directional local and remote data replication, without distance limits and minimal performance degradation. RecoverPoint data protection optionsRecoverPoint provides the following replication options for both physical and VMwarevirtualized environments:Continuous remote replication (CRR): CRR supports synchronous and asynchronous replication between remote sites over FC wide area network (WAN). Synchronous replication supported when the remote sites are connected through FC and provides an RPO of zero. Asynchronous replication provides crash-consistent protection and recovery to specific points in time, with a limited data loss RPO. Continuous data protection (CDP): CDP continuously captures and stores data modifications locally, enabling local recovery from any point in time, with no data loss.Continuous local and remote (CLR) data protection: CLR is a combination of CRR and CDP and provides concurrent local and remote data protection.
So far we’ve only talked of how to failover using SRM with RecoverPoint. Let’s look at other recovery scenarios.Failover is usually a last resort. There are many situations that do not merit a full site failover and must be dealt with using other recovery methods – for example, logical corruption. Failover in the event of logical corruption doesn’t make much sense. RecoverPoint is constantly recording consistent bookmarks in its journals that can be utilized at any time to roll back your application or database to previous points in time. To take advantage of these bookmarks in an environment controlled by SRM, you must first put the consistency group into maintenance mode. Prior to testing recovery, we took a bookmark and named it Pre-Corruption. This was for ease of use only – any image prior to the corruption event could be selected.To test recovery of the Oracle Database using RecoverPoint images, we introduced some corruption into our database environment. What we actually did was go into the database and delete all of the data files. This meant that the database could no longer be started and was in effect corrupt.Once corrupt, recovery was necessary to be able to start the database. On the local site the Production VM was shutdown.From the RecoverPoint GUI, using either the local or remote site, select Enable Image Access from the menu. From here a list of possible images are presented. The administrator can select an image and recover to production.
Once the data has rolled back to the image on the production site, the Enable Image Access icon appears beside the production copy. The administrator must select an image to present to the production host following the synchronization of data to production. It’s worth noting that depending on how much data is going to be rolled back the length of time this will take can vary.The administrator can then select Resume Productionand start the database to verify data integrity.
Please go to emc.com and download the accompanying white paper:EMC Performance for Oracle - EMC VNX, Enterprise Flash Drives, FAST Cache, VMware vSpherehttp://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8850-oracle-performance-vnx-fastcache-wp.pdfThis white paper describes the benefits of using EMC FAST Cache for Oracle OLTP databases in both physical and virtual environments. The Oracle RAC 11g database was configured to access EMC VNX7500 file storage over NFS, using the Oracle dNFS Client. VMware vSphere provided the virtualization platform for the virtual environment.Thank you.