The document provides an overview of the Oracle Exadata X10M Database Machine. Key points include:
- It features the latest 96-core AMD EPYC CPUs, up to 3TB of memory per database server, and 100Gb RDMA networking.
- Storage options include High Capacity servers with 264TB disk and 27.2TB flash, Extreme Flash servers with 122.88TB flash storage, and Extended servers with 264TB disk.
- The machines deliver extreme performance and scalability for all database workloads through automated management and database-optimized hardware and software.
Understanding oracle rac internals part 1 - slidesMohamed Farouk
This document discusses Oracle RAC internals and architecture. It provides an overview of the Oracle RAC architecture including software deployment, processes, and resources. It also covers topics like VIPs, networks, listeners, and SCAN in Oracle RAC. Key aspects summarized include the typical Oracle RAC software stack, local and cluster resources, how VIPs and networks are configured, and the role and dependencies of listeners.
Oracle Real Application Clusters 19c- Best Practices and Internals- EMEA Tour...Sandesh Rao
In this session, I will cover under-the-hood features that power Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) 19c specifically around Cache Fusion and Service management. Improvements in Oracle RAC helps in integration with features such as Multitenant and Data Guard. In fact, these features benefit immensely when used with Oracle RAC. Finally we will talk about changes to the broader Oracle RAC Family of Products stack and the algorithmic changes that helps quickly detect sick/dead nodes/instances and the reconfiguration improvements to ensure that the Oracle RAC Databases continue to function without any disruption
Wars of MySQL Cluster ( InnoDB Cluster VS Galera ) Mydbops
MySQL Clustering over InnoDB engines has grown a lot over the last decade. Galera began working with InnoDB early and then Group Replication came to the environment later, where the features are now rich and robust. This presentation offers a technical comparison of both of them.
The more components a system has, the more challenging its maintenance becomes. Oracle Exadata marries storage with computation through a fast, reliable network, and patching all of these seems daunting. Many companies seem to struggle with it, with some even avoiding it altogether by keeping it “pending.” This session presents tested, applied, and working tips to make the Oracle Exadata patching experience smooth as silk, like vacationing in Hawaii.
Oracle RAC 19c: Best Practices and Secret InternalsAnil Nair
Oracle Real Application Clusters 19c provides best practices and new features for upgrading to Oracle 19c. It discusses upgrading Oracle RAC to Linux 7 with minimal downtime using node draining and relocation techniques. Oracle 19c allows for upgrading the Grid Infrastructure management repository and patching faster using a new Oracle home. The presentation also covers new resource modeling for PDBs in Oracle 19c and improved Clusterware diagnostics.
This document provides an overview and summary of Oracle Data Guard. It discusses the key benefits of Data Guard including disaster recovery, data protection, and high availability. It describes the different types of Data Guard configurations including physical and logical standbys. The document outlines the basic architecture and processes involved in implementing Data Guard including redo transport, apply services, and role transitions. It also summarizes some of the features and protection modes available in different Oracle database versions.
Understanding oracle rac internals part 1 - slidesMohamed Farouk
This document discusses Oracle RAC internals and architecture. It provides an overview of the Oracle RAC architecture including software deployment, processes, and resources. It also covers topics like VIPs, networks, listeners, and SCAN in Oracle RAC. Key aspects summarized include the typical Oracle RAC software stack, local and cluster resources, how VIPs and networks are configured, and the role and dependencies of listeners.
Oracle Real Application Clusters 19c- Best Practices and Internals- EMEA Tour...Sandesh Rao
In this session, I will cover under-the-hood features that power Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) 19c specifically around Cache Fusion and Service management. Improvements in Oracle RAC helps in integration with features such as Multitenant and Data Guard. In fact, these features benefit immensely when used with Oracle RAC. Finally we will talk about changes to the broader Oracle RAC Family of Products stack and the algorithmic changes that helps quickly detect sick/dead nodes/instances and the reconfiguration improvements to ensure that the Oracle RAC Databases continue to function without any disruption
Wars of MySQL Cluster ( InnoDB Cluster VS Galera ) Mydbops
MySQL Clustering over InnoDB engines has grown a lot over the last decade. Galera began working with InnoDB early and then Group Replication came to the environment later, where the features are now rich and robust. This presentation offers a technical comparison of both of them.
The more components a system has, the more challenging its maintenance becomes. Oracle Exadata marries storage with computation through a fast, reliable network, and patching all of these seems daunting. Many companies seem to struggle with it, with some even avoiding it altogether by keeping it “pending.” This session presents tested, applied, and working tips to make the Oracle Exadata patching experience smooth as silk, like vacationing in Hawaii.
Oracle RAC 19c: Best Practices and Secret InternalsAnil Nair
Oracle Real Application Clusters 19c provides best practices and new features for upgrading to Oracle 19c. It discusses upgrading Oracle RAC to Linux 7 with minimal downtime using node draining and relocation techniques. Oracle 19c allows for upgrading the Grid Infrastructure management repository and patching faster using a new Oracle home. The presentation also covers new resource modeling for PDBs in Oracle 19c and improved Clusterware diagnostics.
This document provides an overview and summary of Oracle Data Guard. It discusses the key benefits of Data Guard including disaster recovery, data protection, and high availability. It describes the different types of Data Guard configurations including physical and logical standbys. The document outlines the basic architecture and processes involved in implementing Data Guard including redo transport, apply services, and role transitions. It also summarizes some of the features and protection modes available in different Oracle database versions.
Oracle RAC Virtualized - In VMs, in Containers, On-premises, and in the CloudMarkus Michalewicz
This presentation discusses the support guidelines for using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in virtualized environments, for which general Oracle Database support guidelines are discussed shortly first.
First presented during DOAG 2021 User Conference, this presentation replaces its predecessor from 2016: https://www.slideshare.net/MarkusMichalewicz/how-to-use-oracle-rac-in-a-cloud-a-support-question
"Extended" or "Stretched" Oracle RAC has been available as a concept for a while. Oracle RAC 12c Release 2 introduces an Oracle Extended Cluster configuration, in which the cluster understands the concept of sites and extended setups. This knowledge is used to more efficiently manage "Extended Oracle RAC", whether the nodes are 0.1 mile or 10 miles apart.
The presentation was last updated on August 7th 2017 to add a reference to the new MAA White Paper: "Installing Oracle Extended Clusters on Exadata Database Machine" - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-extclusters-installguide-3748227.pdf and to correct some minor details.
Oracle RAC is an option to the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. At least, this is what it is known for. This presentation shows the many ways in which the stack, which is known as Oracle RAC can be used in the most efficient way for various use cases.
Enterprise Manager 13c provides optimized, efficient, and integrated cloud stack management capabilities. It offers improved monitoring, infrastructure management, and hybrid cloud management features. These include "always on" monitoring, unified hardware and software management under a single console, and enhanced capabilities for managing databases, middleware, and engineered systems. The presentation provides demonstrations of the user interface, incident management, database management, job scheduling, and fusion middleware management functions.
The document discusses two MySQL high availability solutions: MySQL InnoDB Cluster and MySQL NDB Cluster. MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides easy high availability built into MySQL with write consistency, read scalability, and application failover using MySQL Router. MySQL NDB Cluster is an in-memory database that provides automatic sharding, native access via several APIs, read/write consistency, and read/write scalability using the NDB storage engine. The document compares the two solutions and discusses their architectures and key features.
MySQL Database Architectures - MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet 2021-11Kenny Gryp
Oracle's MySQL solutions make it easy to setup various database architectures and achieve high availability with the introduction MySQL InnoDB Cluster and MySQL InnoDB ReplicaSet meeting various high availability requirements. MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet provides a popular disaster recovery solution.
Completely built in-house and supported by Oracle, many enterprises large and small have adopted these solutions into business critical applications.
In this presentation the various database architecture solutions for high availability and disaster recovery will be covered and help you choose the right solutions based on your business requirements.
What CloudStackers Need To Know About LINSTOR/DRBDShapeBlue
Philipp explains the best performing Open Source software-defined storage software available to Apache CloudStack today. It consists of two well-concerted components. LINSTOR and DRBD. Each of them also has its independent use cases, where it is deployed alone. In this presentation, the combination of these two is examined. They form the control plane and the data plane of the SDS. We will touch on: Performance, scalability, hyper-convergence (data-locality for high IO performance), resiliency through data replication (synchronous within a site, 2-way, 3-way, or more), snapshots, backup (to S3), encryption at rest, deduplication, compression, placement policies (regarding failure domains), management CLI and webGUI, monitoring interface, self-healing (restoring redundancy after device/node failure), the federation of multiple sites (async mirroring and repeatedly snapshot difference shipping), QoS control (noisy neighbors limitation) and of course: complete integration with CloudStack for KVM guests. It is Open Source software following the Unix philosophy. Each component solves one task, made for maximal re-usability. The solution leverages the Linux kernel, LVM and/or ZFS, and many Open Source software libraries. Building on these giant Open Source foundations, not only saves LINBIT from re-inventing the wheels, it also empowers your day 2 operation teams since they are already familiar with these technologies.
Philipp Reisner is one of the founders and CEO of LINBIT in Vienna/Austria. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. (comparable to MSc) degree in computer science from Technical University in Vienna. His professional career has been dominated by developing DRBD, a storage replication software for Linux. While in the early years (2001) this was writing kernel code, today he leads a company of 30 employees with locations in Austria and the USA. LINBIT is an Open Source company offering enterprise-level support subscriptions for its Open Source technologies.
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CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 took place on 14th-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria and virtually. The day saw a hybrid get-together of the global CloudStack community hosting 370 attendees. The event hosted 43 sessions from leading CloudStack experts, users and skilful engineers from the open-source world, which included: technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Oracle Database Migration to Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSinanPetrusToma
The document discusses various methods for migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It outlines automation tools provided by Oracle like MV2ADB, MV2OCI and ZDM that can migrate databases with little to no downtime. The document also provides a decision tree to help choose the appropriate migration method based on factors like database version, character set, downtime requirements, etc. Common migration methods discussed are Data Guard, Transportable Tablespaces/Full using Data Pump or RMAN, backup/restore, and GoldenGate replication.
Webinar: Simplifying the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCIStorage Switzerland
During our on demand webinar, “Simplifying the Large-Scale Hybrid Cloud”, Storage Switzerland and Axellio discuss how Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and Axellio’s FabricXpress Servers can deliver new levels of consolidation in the enterprise. Learn how to intelligently leverage Azure to simplify operations like data protection, business continuity, and data center operations – while deploying less infrastructure and less software for your demanding on-premises workloads.
Scaling paypal workloads with oracle rac ssAnil Nair
PayPal workloads scale efficiently with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Oracle RAC provides high availability, scalability, and performance for PayPal's workloads. Oracle RAC utilizes features like cache fusion, dynamic resource management, and fine-grained processes to optimize performance on modern CPU architectures. Oracle RAC also provides near-zero downtime for reconfiguration and patching through optimizations like recovery buddies. PayPal leverages over 250 Oracle RAC clusters with over 90 petabytes of database storage to handle its transaction processing and analytics workloads at scale with high performance.
This document provides a summary of a presentation on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) integration with Exadata, Oracle Data Guard, and In-Memory Database. It discusses how Oracle RAC performance has been optimized on Exadata platforms through features like fast node death detection, cache fusion optimizations, ASM optimizations, and integration with Exadata infrastructure. The presentation agenda indicates it will cover these RAC optimizations as well as integration with Oracle Data Guard and the In-Memory database option.
Automatic Storage Management allows Oracle databases to use disk storage that is managed as an integrated cluster file system. It provides functions like striping, mirroring, and rebalancing of data across storage disks. The document outlines new features in Oracle Exadata and Automatic Storage Management including Flex ASM, which eliminates the requirement for an ASM instance on every server, and Flex Disk Groups, which provide file groups and enable quota management and redundancy changes for databases. It also discusses enhancements to disk offline and online operations and rebalancing.
This version of "Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 19c & Later – Best Practices" was first presented in Oracle Open World (OOW) London 2020 and includes content from the OOW 2019 version of the deck. The deck has been updated with the latest information regarding ORAchk as well as upgrade tips & tricks.
How to use 23c AHF AIOPS to protect Oracle Databases 23c Sandesh Rao
Oracle's Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) provides capabilities for artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) on Oracle Database and Exadata systems. AHF includes components for real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, issue detection and resolution through machine learning models. It collects telemetry and diagnostic data from databases and operating systems and uses this for automated incident handling and to provide insights to customers and support.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c for DBAsGokhan Atil
This document provides an overview and introduction to Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c (EM13c) for database administrators (DBAs). It discusses the key features and benefits of EM13c for monitoring, performance tuning, and provisioning databases. The document outlines the architecture and components of EM13c and why it is useful for centralized management. It also provides tips for DBAs on using features like monitoring, incident management, ASH analytics, provisioning, patching, and best practices for installation, configuration, and maintenance of an EM13c environment.
Storage comparison: Dell PowerMax 8500 vs. Pure Storage FlashArray//XL170Principled Technologies
A Principled Technologies research report based on publicly available information
One of the ways vendors support buyers of their offerings is by providing public information about their products. We found that Dell offered easy-to-find vital data about the PowerMax 8500 array to assist organizations making a storage decision. In contrast, Pure Storage offered comparatively little public information about the PureArray//XL170 as of this writing. The publicly available information we found suggests that the Dell PowerMax 8500 array surpasses the Pure Storage PureArray//XL170 in the categories we researched, with greater expandability and capacity, higher throughput and lower latency, mainframe support, and verified suitability for secure environments.
YugaByte DB Internals - Storage Engine and Transactions Yugabyte
This document introduces YugaByte DB, a high-performance, distributed, transactional database. It is built to scale horizontally on commodity servers across data centers for mission-critical applications. YugaByte DB uses a transactional document store based on RocksDB, Raft-based replication for resilience, and automatic sharding and rebalancing. It supports ACID transactions across documents, provides APIs compatible with Cassandra and Redis, and is open source. The architecture is designed for high performance, strong consistency, and cloud-native deployment.
A Deep Dive into ASM Redundancy in ExadataEmre Baransel
Exadata Database Machine provides a solid storage redundancy infrastructure using ASM. Physical disks on multiple storage cell servers are logically partitioned, grouped and managed centrally by ASM. The way Exadata uses ASM has its own rules. The new term "Grid disk", ASM background processes, failgroups, redundancy options differ from non-Exadata systems. This storage configuration may sometimes seem to be complicated to Exadata Database Machine administrators. It's important to be able to answer the following questions, which are the topics of this presentation:
To what degree, disk and cell failures are tolerated;
How to understand if ASM is able to re-build redundancy after disk or cell failures;
What happens when multiple disks are failed at the same time and does it matter which disks failed;
What we need to pay attention to in terms of redundancy, when we do administrative task such as rolling restart of cell servers, resizing diskgroups, etc.
The document discusses various disaster recovery strategies for SQL Server including failover clustering, database mirroring, and peer-to-peer transactional replication. It provides advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It also outlines the steps to configure replication for Always On Availability Groups which involves setting up publications and subscriptions, configuring the availability group, and redirecting the original publisher to the listener name.
Red Hat Storage Day Seattle: Supermicro Solutions for Red Hat Ceph and Red Ha...Red_Hat_Storage
This document discusses Supermicro's evolution from server and storage innovation to total solutions innovation. It provides examples of their all-flash storage servers and Red Hat Ceph testing results. Finally, it outlines their approach to providing optimized, turnkey storage solutions based on workload requirements and best practices learned from customer deployments and testing.
Oracle RAC Virtualized - In VMs, in Containers, On-premises, and in the CloudMarkus Michalewicz
This presentation discusses the support guidelines for using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) in virtualized environments, for which general Oracle Database support guidelines are discussed shortly first.
First presented during DOAG 2021 User Conference, this presentation replaces its predecessor from 2016: https://www.slideshare.net/MarkusMichalewicz/how-to-use-oracle-rac-in-a-cloud-a-support-question
"Extended" or "Stretched" Oracle RAC has been available as a concept for a while. Oracle RAC 12c Release 2 introduces an Oracle Extended Cluster configuration, in which the cluster understands the concept of sites and extended setups. This knowledge is used to more efficiently manage "Extended Oracle RAC", whether the nodes are 0.1 mile or 10 miles apart.
The presentation was last updated on August 7th 2017 to add a reference to the new MAA White Paper: "Installing Oracle Extended Clusters on Exadata Database Machine" - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-extclusters-installguide-3748227.pdf and to correct some minor details.
Oracle RAC is an option to the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition. At least, this is what it is known for. This presentation shows the many ways in which the stack, which is known as Oracle RAC can be used in the most efficient way for various use cases.
Enterprise Manager 13c provides optimized, efficient, and integrated cloud stack management capabilities. It offers improved monitoring, infrastructure management, and hybrid cloud management features. These include "always on" monitoring, unified hardware and software management under a single console, and enhanced capabilities for managing databases, middleware, and engineered systems. The presentation provides demonstrations of the user interface, incident management, database management, job scheduling, and fusion middleware management functions.
The document discusses two MySQL high availability solutions: MySQL InnoDB Cluster and MySQL NDB Cluster. MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides easy high availability built into MySQL with write consistency, read scalability, and application failover using MySQL Router. MySQL NDB Cluster is an in-memory database that provides automatic sharding, native access via several APIs, read/write consistency, and read/write scalability using the NDB storage engine. The document compares the two solutions and discusses their architectures and key features.
MySQL Database Architectures - MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet 2021-11Kenny Gryp
Oracle's MySQL solutions make it easy to setup various database architectures and achieve high availability with the introduction MySQL InnoDB Cluster and MySQL InnoDB ReplicaSet meeting various high availability requirements. MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet provides a popular disaster recovery solution.
Completely built in-house and supported by Oracle, many enterprises large and small have adopted these solutions into business critical applications.
In this presentation the various database architecture solutions for high availability and disaster recovery will be covered and help you choose the right solutions based on your business requirements.
What CloudStackers Need To Know About LINSTOR/DRBDShapeBlue
Philipp explains the best performing Open Source software-defined storage software available to Apache CloudStack today. It consists of two well-concerted components. LINSTOR and DRBD. Each of them also has its independent use cases, where it is deployed alone. In this presentation, the combination of these two is examined. They form the control plane and the data plane of the SDS. We will touch on: Performance, scalability, hyper-convergence (data-locality for high IO performance), resiliency through data replication (synchronous within a site, 2-way, 3-way, or more), snapshots, backup (to S3), encryption at rest, deduplication, compression, placement policies (regarding failure domains), management CLI and webGUI, monitoring interface, self-healing (restoring redundancy after device/node failure), the federation of multiple sites (async mirroring and repeatedly snapshot difference shipping), QoS control (noisy neighbors limitation) and of course: complete integration with CloudStack for KVM guests. It is Open Source software following the Unix philosophy. Each component solves one task, made for maximal re-usability. The solution leverages the Linux kernel, LVM and/or ZFS, and many Open Source software libraries. Building on these giant Open Source foundations, not only saves LINBIT from re-inventing the wheels, it also empowers your day 2 operation teams since they are already familiar with these technologies.
Philipp Reisner is one of the founders and CEO of LINBIT in Vienna/Austria. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. (comparable to MSc) degree in computer science from Technical University in Vienna. His professional career has been dominated by developing DRBD, a storage replication software for Linux. While in the early years (2001) this was writing kernel code, today he leads a company of 30 employees with locations in Austria and the USA. LINBIT is an Open Source company offering enterprise-level support subscriptions for its Open Source technologies.
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CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 took place on 14th-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria and virtually. The day saw a hybrid get-together of the global CloudStack community hosting 370 attendees. The event hosted 43 sessions from leading CloudStack experts, users and skilful engineers from the open-source world, which included: technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Oracle Database Migration to Oracle Cloud InfrastructureSinanPetrusToma
The document discusses various methods for migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It outlines automation tools provided by Oracle like MV2ADB, MV2OCI and ZDM that can migrate databases with little to no downtime. The document also provides a decision tree to help choose the appropriate migration method based on factors like database version, character set, downtime requirements, etc. Common migration methods discussed are Data Guard, Transportable Tablespaces/Full using Data Pump or RMAN, backup/restore, and GoldenGate replication.
Webinar: Simplifying the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCIStorage Switzerland
During our on demand webinar, “Simplifying the Large-Scale Hybrid Cloud”, Storage Switzerland and Axellio discuss how Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and Axellio’s FabricXpress Servers can deliver new levels of consolidation in the enterprise. Learn how to intelligently leverage Azure to simplify operations like data protection, business continuity, and data center operations – while deploying less infrastructure and less software for your demanding on-premises workloads.
Scaling paypal workloads with oracle rac ssAnil Nair
PayPal workloads scale efficiently with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). Oracle RAC provides high availability, scalability, and performance for PayPal's workloads. Oracle RAC utilizes features like cache fusion, dynamic resource management, and fine-grained processes to optimize performance on modern CPU architectures. Oracle RAC also provides near-zero downtime for reconfiguration and patching through optimizations like recovery buddies. PayPal leverages over 250 Oracle RAC clusters with over 90 petabytes of database storage to handle its transaction processing and analytics workloads at scale with high performance.
This document provides a summary of a presentation on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) integration with Exadata, Oracle Data Guard, and In-Memory Database. It discusses how Oracle RAC performance has been optimized on Exadata platforms through features like fast node death detection, cache fusion optimizations, ASM optimizations, and integration with Exadata infrastructure. The presentation agenda indicates it will cover these RAC optimizations as well as integration with Oracle Data Guard and the In-Memory database option.
Automatic Storage Management allows Oracle databases to use disk storage that is managed as an integrated cluster file system. It provides functions like striping, mirroring, and rebalancing of data across storage disks. The document outlines new features in Oracle Exadata and Automatic Storage Management including Flex ASM, which eliminates the requirement for an ASM instance on every server, and Flex Disk Groups, which provide file groups and enable quota management and redundancy changes for databases. It also discusses enhancements to disk offline and online operations and rebalancing.
This version of "Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 19c & Later – Best Practices" was first presented in Oracle Open World (OOW) London 2020 and includes content from the OOW 2019 version of the deck. The deck has been updated with the latest information regarding ORAchk as well as upgrade tips & tricks.
How to use 23c AHF AIOPS to protect Oracle Databases 23c Sandesh Rao
Oracle's Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) provides capabilities for artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) on Oracle Database and Exadata systems. AHF includes components for real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, issue detection and resolution through machine learning models. It collects telemetry and diagnostic data from databases and operating systems and uses this for automated incident handling and to provide insights to customers and support.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c for DBAsGokhan Atil
This document provides an overview and introduction to Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c (EM13c) for database administrators (DBAs). It discusses the key features and benefits of EM13c for monitoring, performance tuning, and provisioning databases. The document outlines the architecture and components of EM13c and why it is useful for centralized management. It also provides tips for DBAs on using features like monitoring, incident management, ASH analytics, provisioning, patching, and best practices for installation, configuration, and maintenance of an EM13c environment.
Storage comparison: Dell PowerMax 8500 vs. Pure Storage FlashArray//XL170Principled Technologies
A Principled Technologies research report based on publicly available information
One of the ways vendors support buyers of their offerings is by providing public information about their products. We found that Dell offered easy-to-find vital data about the PowerMax 8500 array to assist organizations making a storage decision. In contrast, Pure Storage offered comparatively little public information about the PureArray//XL170 as of this writing. The publicly available information we found suggests that the Dell PowerMax 8500 array surpasses the Pure Storage PureArray//XL170 in the categories we researched, with greater expandability and capacity, higher throughput and lower latency, mainframe support, and verified suitability for secure environments.
YugaByte DB Internals - Storage Engine and Transactions Yugabyte
This document introduces YugaByte DB, a high-performance, distributed, transactional database. It is built to scale horizontally on commodity servers across data centers for mission-critical applications. YugaByte DB uses a transactional document store based on RocksDB, Raft-based replication for resilience, and automatic sharding and rebalancing. It supports ACID transactions across documents, provides APIs compatible with Cassandra and Redis, and is open source. The architecture is designed for high performance, strong consistency, and cloud-native deployment.
A Deep Dive into ASM Redundancy in ExadataEmre Baransel
Exadata Database Machine provides a solid storage redundancy infrastructure using ASM. Physical disks on multiple storage cell servers are logically partitioned, grouped and managed centrally by ASM. The way Exadata uses ASM has its own rules. The new term "Grid disk", ASM background processes, failgroups, redundancy options differ from non-Exadata systems. This storage configuration may sometimes seem to be complicated to Exadata Database Machine administrators. It's important to be able to answer the following questions, which are the topics of this presentation:
To what degree, disk and cell failures are tolerated;
How to understand if ASM is able to re-build redundancy after disk or cell failures;
What happens when multiple disks are failed at the same time and does it matter which disks failed;
What we need to pay attention to in terms of redundancy, when we do administrative task such as rolling restart of cell servers, resizing diskgroups, etc.
The document discusses various disaster recovery strategies for SQL Server including failover clustering, database mirroring, and peer-to-peer transactional replication. It provides advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It also outlines the steps to configure replication for Always On Availability Groups which involves setting up publications and subscriptions, configuring the availability group, and redirecting the original publisher to the listener name.
Red Hat Storage Day Seattle: Supermicro Solutions for Red Hat Ceph and Red Ha...Red_Hat_Storage
This document discusses Supermicro's evolution from server and storage innovation to total solutions innovation. It provides examples of their all-flash storage servers and Red Hat Ceph testing results. Finally, it outlines their approach to providing optimized, turnkey storage solutions based on workload requirements and best practices learned from customer deployments and testing.
The NextServer Evo from NextComputing offers extreme performance and storage density in a small 3U rackmount form factor. It utilizes modular components that allow for flexible configurations with up to dual quad-core processors, 32GB RAM, and 16 front-access removable hard drives up to 2TB each. The system provides high-speed expansion slots, RAID support, and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, offering a powerful yet flexible data streaming solution.
The NextServer Evo from NextComputing offers extreme performance and storage density in a small 3U rackmount form factor. It utilizes modular components that allow for flexible configurations with up to dual quad-core processors, 32GB RAM, and 16 front-access removable hard drives up to 2TB each. The system provides high-speed expansion slots, RAID support, and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, offering a powerful yet flexible data streaming solution.
MemVerge Field CTO Yong Tian shows what memory expansion costs with an analysis of various server configurations with up to 8TB of tiered DRAM and CXL memory.
Mike Pittaro - High Performance Hardware for Data Analysis PyData
Choosing hardware for big data analysis is difficult because of the many options and variables involved. The problem is more complicated when you need a full cluster for big data analytics.
This session will cover the basic guidelines and architectural choices involved in choosing analytics hardware for Spark and Hadoop. I will cover processor core and memory ratios, disk subsystems, and network architecture. This is a practical advice oriented session, and will focus on performance and cost tradeoffs for many different options.
The Power of HPC with Next Generation Supermicro Systems Rebekah Rodriguez
Witness the astonishing improvement in performance and security with the next new generation of Supermicro platforms. New Supermicro systems deliver unprecedented levels of compute power for the most challenging high-performance workloads. In this Supercomputing roundtable, learn how the new Supermicro products provide a differentiated advantage for early adopters of the most advanced accelerated computing infrastructure in the world.
Supermicro Servers with Micron DDR5 & SSDs: Accelerating Real World WorkloadsRebekah Rodriguez
This document provides an overview of Supermicro's comprehensive server portfolio, including their rackmount, cloud, and mainstream server solutions. It highlights several multi-node server platforms like BigTwin, FatTwin, and GrandTwin. The document also mentions Supermicro will have many options for the upcoming 4th generation AMD EPYC 'Genoa' platform with support for up to 96 cores, 128 PCIe lanes, and DDR5 memory at up to 6TB capacity. In summary, the document outlines Supermicro's server product lines and upcoming support for the high-end 4th generation AMD EPYC processors.
This document summarizes a presentation about FlashGrid, an alternative to Oracle Exadata that aims to achieve similar performance levels using commodity hardware. It discusses the key components of FlashGrid including the Linux kernel, networking protocols like Infiniband and NVMe, and hardware. Benchmarks show FlashGrid achieving comparable IOPS and throughput to Exadata on a single server. While Exadata has proprietary advantages, FlashGrid offers excellent raw performance at lower cost and with simpler maintenance through the use of standard technologies.
High-Density Top-Loading Storage for Cloud Scale Applications Rebekah Rodriguez
In this webinar, we will discuss how high-capacity Top-Loading Storage systems are being used for enterprise and cloud scale applications and will identify the key features of the modular architecture for use in today’s software defined storage (SDS) environments. - https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/17278/527798
The Exadata X3 introduces new hardware with dramatically more and faster flash memory, more DRAM memory, faster CPUs, and more connectivity while maintaining the same price as the previous Exadata X2 platform. Key software enhancements include Exadata Smart Flash Write Caching which provides up to 20 times more write I/O performance, and Hybrid Columnar Compression which now supports write-back caching and provides storage savings of up to 15 times. The Exadata X3 provides higher performance, more storage capacity, and lower power usage compared to previous Exadata platforms.
This document summarizes lessons learned from migrating a Department of Defense application to Oracle Exadata. Key points include:
1) Exadata provided significantly better performance than the legacy configuration for data exports, maintenance processes, and reporting.
2) Thorough testing is required due to Exadata's unique architecture and configuration best practices.
3) Communication with the hosting center is important to ensure they can support Exadata's size and power requirements.
4) Smart scan and other Exadata optimizations like enhanced hybrid columnar compression provide substantial performance benefits if properly configured.
Infrastructure optimization for seismic processing (eng)Vsevolod Shabad
NetProject is a system integrator focused on building optimized IT infrastructure for seismic data processing applications. They aim to configure hardware and software to maximize application performance while minimizing costs. Key optimization strategies include choosing the right CPU, RAM, and server configurations; utilizing RDMA for efficient data transfer; offloading processing to GPUs; selecting high-performance file systems and storage; and optimizing resource scheduling and infrastructure management. NetProject leverages their expertise in oil and gas IT to help customers improve seismic processing performance.
The document discusses using ARM64 servers for network workloads like DNS. It provides examples of a small country top-level domain that receives over 10Mbps of continuous traffic from 1.3 million domain names on servers using only 2-5% resources. It then covers considerations for network servers, benchmarks of ARM64 servers showing comparable performance to Xeon servers for DNS workloads despite lower power consumption. It concludes ARM64 is a viable platform for network services like DNS.
The document describes Oracle Exadata, a database machine that provides extreme performance for online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing (DWH) workloads. It highlights key features like Smart Scans, Storage Indexes, and Flash Cache that reduce data processing loads on database servers. Customer testimonials report performance improvements like queries speeding up from days to minutes.
The document discusses IBM's new 5th generation eX5 portfolio of enterprise x86 servers. It introduces three new servers - the IBM System x3850 X5 and x3690 X5 rack servers, and the IBM BladeCenter HX5 blade server. These servers are based on Intel's Nehalem-EX processors and feature new innovations like MAX5 for scalable memory expansion and eXFlash for SSD storage. The portfolio is aimed at providing leadership performance, flexibility, and reliability for virtualization, database, and other memory-intensive workloads.
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As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
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Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
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