Presentation on Oracle GoldenGate Repliction at UTOUG 2015 Fall Conference

1. Extreme Replication:
Performance Tuning Oracle GoldenGate
UTOUG Fall Symposium 2015
Date: 9/23/2015

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5. ① Oracle GoldenGate Overview
② Tuning Areas and Tools
③ Case Study
④ Recommendations
⑤ Improvements?
⑥ Q&A

6. Oracle GoldenGate Overview

7. Change Data Capture
(CDC)
Oracle Advance
Replication
Oracle Streams Oracle GoldenGate
• Multi-Master Replication
• MV Replication
• Hybrid Replication
• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
• Capture Messages
• Staging Messages
• Consumption
• Heterogeneous
• Multiple Architectures
• Multiple Use Cases
Quick History

8. What is GoldenGate?

9. How does GoldenGate work?

10. How Oracle GoldenGate Works
Capture
Trail
Files
Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Capture (extract): committed transactions are captured (and can be filtered) as they occur by reading the transaction logs. As of
V.11.2.1, GoldenGate offers two options for capture for Oracle; Classic & Integrated Capture
Trail: stages and queues data for routing.
Pump: distributes data for routing to target(s).
Route: data is compressed, encrypted for routing to target(s).
Delivery: applies data with transaction integrity. New with
GoldenGate 12c, Integrated Delivery (replicat).
MGRMGR

11. How Oracle GoldenGate Works
Capture
Trail
Files
Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Capture (extract): committed transactions are captured (and can be filtered) as they occur by reading the transaction logs. As of
V.11.2.1, GoldenGate offers two options for capture for Oracle; Classic & Integrated Capture
Trail: stages and queues data for routing.
Pump: distributes data for routing to target(s).
Route: data is compressed, encrypted for routing to target(s).
Delivery: applies data with transaction integrity. New with
GoldenGate 12c, Integrated Delivery (replicat).
Trail
Files
Trail
FilesDelivery Pump Capture

12. Integrated Extract
• Introduced in GoldenGate 11.2.0.2
• Integrated Extract for Oracle source databases only
• Database release: 11.2.0.3 and later
• Works with Logminer
• Register Extract (capture) with database/logminer required
Example: GGSCI> register extract [ name ] database container [ (PDB) ]
Trail
Files
Capture
Oracle Database

13. Logmining Server
Logmining Server
• Reader: Reads logfile and splits into regions
• Preparer: Scans regions of logfiles and prefilters
based on extract parameters
• Builder: Merges prepared records in SCN order
• Capture: Formats LCR and passes to GG Extract
Trail
Files
CaptureReader Builder Capture
Preparer
1Preparer
2Preparer
N
Extract
• Requests LCRs from logmining server
• Performs mapping and
transformations
• Writes trail file
Oracle Database

14. Integrated Replicat
• Introduced in GoldenGate 12.1.2
• Integrated Replicat for Oracle databases only
• Database release: 11.2.0.4, 12.1 and later
• Leverages database parallel apply servers
• Min. changes to replicat configuration
• Single Replicat, no partitioning needed (via @RANGE/THREAD or manual
partitioning)
Trail
Files
Delivery
Oracle Database

15. Integrated Replicat
Trail
Files
Lightweight Streaming
API
Delivery
Inbound Server
• Receiver: Reads LCR
• Preparer: Computes dependencies between
transactions (PK, FK, UK)
• Coordinator: Maintains the order between
transactions
• Applier: Applies transactions in order, including CDR
and error handling
Replicat
• Reads the trail file(s)
• Constructs logical change records
(LCR)
• Uses a lightweight streaming API to
transmit LCR to Oracle database
Receiver Preparer Coordinator
Apply
1Apply
2Apply
N
Oracle Database

16. Tuning Areas and Tools

17. Why should I care about performance?

18. What tools are available for performance tuning?

19. Oracle GoldenGate Performance Areas
Capture
Trail
Files
Pump Trail
Files Delivery
Host Host
Database Database
GoldenGate
GoldenGate
- MPSTAT, VMSTAT, IOSTAT, STRACE, TOP
- AWR, ASH, UTL_SPADV, TRACE
GG tools: LAG, REPORTCOUNT

20. GoldenGate Performance Tools
LAG Information
• Monitor latency from the Manager process (mgr.prm)
- LAGINFO [ SECONDS | MINUTES | HOURS ]
- LAGREPORT [ MINUTES | HOURS ]
- LAGCRITICAL [ SECONDS | MINUTES | HOURS]
EXAMPLE:
LAGINFOSECONDS 1
LAGREPORTMINUTES 1
LAGCRITICALSECONDS 2
• Information output to ggserr.log

21. GoldenGate Performance Tools
Report Files
• Parameters currently running
• Table/Column Mappings
• Runtime messages and errors
• Runtime statistics
• REPORTCOUNT
- REPORTCOUNT EVERY [ # ] [ SECONDS | MINUTES |
HOURS ], RATE
Example: REPORTCOUNT EVERY 15 MINUTES, RATE
• Files located in $OGG_HOME/dirrpt

22. Database Performance Tools
Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
• Good starting point within the database
• Help determine potential bottlenecks
• Extract/Replicat are given unique SQL Module IDs
- Used in both AWR and ASH
• Use Active Session History (ASH) for more details on
identified session

23. AWR Output – Replication Stats
Oracle 12c Database (12.1.0.1 and later)
Note: Will not be in 11.2.x AWR reports

24. Database Performance Tools
Streams Performance Advisor (Integrated Extract/Replicat Only)
• Used to provide information on the performance of integrated
processes
• Both Extract and Replicat
• Provides real-time statistics
• Has to be installed
- Installed under GoldenGate User
- $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlspadv.sql

25. Database Performance Tools (Views)
Run Time Views
• V$GOLDENGATE_CAPTURE
• V$GG_APPLY_RECEIVER
• V$GG_APPLY_READER
• V$GG_APPLY_COORDINATOR
• V$GG_APPLY_SERVER
• V$GOLDENGATE_TABLE_STATS
• V$GOLDENGATE_CAPABILITIES
• V$DBA_APPLY_ERRORS
Configuration Views
• DBA_GOLDENGATE_PRIVILEGES
• DBA_GOLDENGATE_SUPPORT_MODE
• DBA_CAPUTRE
• DBA_CAPTURE_PARAMETERS
• DBA_GOLDENGATE_INBOUND
• DBA_GG_INBOUND_PROGRESS
• DBA_APPLY
• DBA_APPLY_PARAMETERS
• DBA_APPLY_REPERROR_HANDLERS
• DBA_APPLY_HANDLE_COLLISIONS
• DBA_APPLY_DML_CONF_HANDLERS
Associated GoldenGate Monitoring Scripts

26. Health Checks
• SQL based scripts that create HTML output
- Different scripts for database releases
- MOS:1448324.1
• Summary
- Overview of environment
- Advice/Warnings of potential issues of configuration
• Analysis
- Compare configurations
- Performance Recommendations
- Detail information for diagnostic purposes
• Statistics
- Runtime information of Streams (GoldenGate) processing

27. Host Performance Tools
CPU Performance (mpstat/top)
• Looking to see if there are any processes limited by CPU (top)
• Looking to see what average cpu spike is (mpstat)
I/O Performance (iostat)
• Gather for database disks and trail file locations
• Critical before increasing parallelism
Memory Performance (vmstat)
• Not needed for integrated processes
• Needed if tuning classic or coordinated processes

28. Case Study

29. Capture Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Trail
Files
Server/Database Configs
Dell PowerEdge T110
Intel Core Duo
16G DRAM
Database:
SGA: 6GB
Dell PowerEdge T110 II
Intel i3
8G DRAM
Database:
SGA: 6GB

30. Oracle GoldenGate Performance Areas
Capture
Trail
Files
Pump Trail
Files Delivery
Host Host
Database Database
GoldenGate
GoldenGate
- MPSTAT, VMSTAT, IOSTAT, STRACE
- AWR, ASH, UTL_SPADV, TRACE
GG tools: LAG, REPORTCOUNT

31. Lag Information (OEM)
Approx. 1 hr. 20 min. behind
JAGENT 12.1.3/GG Plugin 12.1.0.2 is required

32. Lag Information
• ggserr.log
- Reported by Manager Process (mgr.prm)
- Extract (Source)
2015-02-11 15:32:12 INFO OGG-00948 Oracle GoldenGate
Manager for Oracle, mgr.prm: Lag for EXTRACT EXTI is 00:00:01
(checkpoint updated 00:00:07 ago).
- Replicat (Target)
2015-02-11 15:24:14 WARNING OGG-00947 Oracle GoldenGate
Manager for Oracle, mgr.prm: Lag for REPLICAT REPI is 01:18:50
(checkpoint updated 00:00:00 ago).

33. Process Statistics
EXTI.rpt
1068208 records processed as of 2015-02-11 15:30:25 (rate 57,delta 299)
PMPI.rpt
545130 records processed as of 2015-02-11 15:35:28 (rate 109,delta 281)
REPI.rpt
108483 records processed as of 2015-02-11 15:28:05 (rate 116,delta 120)
• Monitor throughput for each process
- REPORTCOUNT EVERY [ SECOND | MINUTES | HOURS ], RATE
- Can impact throughput with aggressive monitoring
Total records
processed this session
Throughput for session Changes since last
report count

34. Streams Performance Advisor
Extract
PATH 1 RUN_ID 1 RUN_TIME 2015-JAN-12 15:17:31 CCA Y
|<C> OGG$CAP_EXTI 31 31 0 LMR 99.7% 0% 0.3% "" LMP (2) 199.7% 0%
0.3% "" LMB 99.3% 0% 0.3% "" CAP 99.7% 0% 0.3% "" |<Q>
"GGATE"."OGG$Q_EXTI" 0.01 0.01 0 |<A> OGG$EXTI 0.01 0.01 0 |<B>
NO BOTTLENECK IDENTIFIED
Logminer Reader (LMR): 99.7% idle, no flow control, no top event
Logminer Preparer (LMP): 2, 199.7% idle, no flow control, no top event
Logminer Builder (LMB): 99.3% idle, no flow control, no top event
Capture (CAP): 99.3% idle, no flow control, no top event

35. Streams Performance Advisor
Replicat
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Advisor couldn’t gather required statistics

36. Performance (OEM View)
Capture Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Trail
Files

37. GoldenGate Configuration
Capture Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Trail
Files
--CHECKPARAMS
EXTRACT EXTI
SETENV
(ORACLE_HOME="/oracle/app/product/11.2.0.4/d
bhome_1")
SETENV (ORACLE_SID="bc11g")
USERID ggate, PASSWORD ggate
WARNLONGTRANS 15m, CHECKINTERVAL 5m
REPORTCOUNT EVERY 5 MINUTES, RATE
EXTTRAIL ./dirdat/li
TABLE SOE.ADDRESSES;
TABLE SOE.CARD_DETAILS;
TABLE SOE.CUSTOMERS;
TABLE SOE.INVENTORIES;
TABLE SOE.LOGON;
TABLE SOE.ORDER_ITEMS;
TABLE SOE.ORDERENTRY_METADATA;
TABLE SOE.ORDERS;
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_DESCRIPTIONS;
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_INFORMATION;
TABLE SOE.WAREHOUSES;
--CHECKPARAMS
EXTRACT PMPI
userid ggate password ggate
PASSTHRU
RMTHOST 192.168.65.68, MGRPORT 15000,
COMPRESS
RMTTRAIL ./dirdat/ri
REPORTCOUNT EVERY 1 MINUTES, RATE
TABLE SOE.ADDRESSES;
TABLE SOE.CARD_DETAILS;
TABLE SOE.CUSTOMERS;
TABLE SOE.INVENTORIES;
TABLE SOE.LOGON;
TABLE SOE.ORDER_ITEMS;
TABLE SOE.ORDERENTRY_METADATA;
TABLE SOE.ORDERS;
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_DESCRIPTIONS;
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_INFORMATION;
TABLE SOE.WAREHOUSES;
--CHECKPARAMS
REPLICAT REPI
SETENV
(ORACLE_HOME="/opt/oracle/app/product/12.1.0.
1/dbhome_1")
SETENV (ORACLE_SID="oemrep")
USERID ggate, PASSWORD ggate
ALLOWDUPTARGETMAP
ASSUMETARGETDEFS
REPORTCOUNT EVERY 5 MINUTES, RATE
DISCARDFILE ./dirrpt/REPCI.dsc, append,
megabytes 200
REPERROR(default, discard)
REPERROR(default2, discard)
MAP SOE.ADDRESSES, TARGET
SOE.ADDRESSES;
MAP SOE.CARD_DETAILS, TARGET
…..
MAP SOE.WAREHOUSES, TARGET
SOE.WAREHOUSES;

38. AWR Output – Replication Stats
LAG: 12.9 Minutes

39. Database Views
select capture_name, 86400 * (available_message_create_time -
capture_message_create_time) latency_in_seconds
from gv$goldengate_capture;
select r.apply_name, 86400 * (r.dequeue_time - c.lwm_message_create_time)
latency_in_seconds
from gv$gg_apply_reader r, gv$gg_apply_coordinator c
where r.apply# = c.apply#
and r.apply_name = c.apply_name;

40. Recommendations

41. Integrated Extract Parameters
• LOGALLSUPCOLS
- Instructs extract to write supplemental logged columns to trail file
• UPDATERECORDFORMAT
- Single Logical Change Record (LCR) with BEFORE and AFTER
images
- COMPACT
- reduces the amount of data sent with LCR

42. Integrated Extract Parameters
Continued
• PARALLELISM
- Controls number of preparers for processing logs
- Increase parallelism if preparers are CPU bound
- EE allows parallelism of preparers (default = 2)
- SE does not allow parallelism of preparers (default = 1)
• MAX_SGA_SIZE
- Controls amount of streams pool configured extract
- Min: 1024 (1G)/Max: 3584 (3.5G)

43. Integrated Replicat Parameters
• COMMIT_SERIALIZATION
- Default = DEPENDENT_TRANSACTIONS
- Set to FULL, if apply in source commit order is required
• EAGER_SIZE
- Threshold to begin apply of large transactions (default = 9500)
- Serializes apply processing
- Make sure streams_pool_size is configured correctly to avoid
Waiting for Memory issues
• MAX_SGA_SIZE
- Controls memory resource for IR
- Default is INFINITE

44. Integrated Replicat Parameters
Continued
• PARALLELISM
- Controls number of appliers (default = 4, actually 50)
- Setting to 1 disables parallism
• MAX_PARALLELISM
- Controls maximum number of appliers
- Default is 50 in OGG 12.1.2.1 (30 in OGG 12.1.2.0)
Note: Auto Tuning (parallelism)
- Enabled by default
- Computed over range of 5 intervals (5 seconds)
- Unneeded processes marked INACTIVE, removed after 5 minutes
- MAX_PARALLISM=PARALLELISM, disables auto turning

45. Integrated Replicat Parameters
Continued
• BATCHSQL
- Controls number of appliers (default = 4)
- Setting to 1 disables parallelism
- Use with caution
- Degradation can be seen in some cases.

46. Database Configurations
• ENABLE_GOLDENGATE_REPLICATION
- New in DB 11.2.0.4/12.1.0.2
- Boolean value. Default to False, set to True to activate
• STREAMS_POOL_SIZE
- Size appropriately for number of concurrent IE & IR processes
- Min. 1G per IE/IR then add 25%
- If using MAX_SGA_SIZE
- sum of (MAX_SGA_SIZE * IR) * 25%

47. Sizing Streams Pool
(MAX_SGA_SIZE * PARALLELISM) * 25%
(1024M * 2) * 25% = 2560M (2.5G)
Note: Max size of streams_pool_size should not exceed 3.5G
Note: May have to increase SGA size to allocate enough
memory

48. Database Object Tuning
• GoldenGate uses SQL to apply changes
• AWR highlights SQL and SEGMENT issues
• ADDM recommendations as needed
• Redo Logs, ensure they are large enough for expected
workload
• Gather statistics regularly, especially after initial initialization
• Target side: Indexes can cause slowness in apply process as
well.

49. Network Tuning
• TCPBUFSIZE and TCPFLUSHBYTES
• Use ping to find average round trip time (RTT)
[oracle@oel dirrpt]$ ping fred.acme.com
PING fred.acme.com (192.168.65.68) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fred.acme.com (192.168.65.68): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.180 ms
64 bytes from fred.acme.com (192.168.65.68): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.173 ms
64 bytes from fred.acme.com (192.168.65.68): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.199 ms
64 bytes from fred.acme.com (192.168.65.68): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.203 ms
^C
--- fred.acme.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3807ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.173/0.188/0.203/0.021 ms

50. Network Tuning
(megabits / gigabits) * RTT = Bandwidth-Delay Product (BDP in bytes)
BDP * 3 = TCPBUFSIZE/TCPFLUSHBYTES
(8192 / 8) * 0.021 = 21.5 bytes
21.5 bytes * 3 = 64.5 bytes
Since BDP result is less than 1MB, no need to set TCPBUFSIZE or TCPFLUSHBYTES
*Default is 1MB

51. Host
Evaluate if you need bigger/newer hardware if needed!

52. Improvements

53. Configuration
Capture Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Trail
Files
EXTRACT EXTI
SETENV
(ORACLE_HOME="/oracle/app/product/11.2.0.4/d
bhome_1")
SETENV (ORACLE_SID="bc11g")
USERID ggate, PASSWORD ggate
WARNLONGTRANS 15m, CHECKINTERVAL 5m
REPORTCOUNT EVERY 1 MINUTES, RATE
EXTTRAIL ./dirdat/li
TRANLOGOPTIONS EXCLUDEUSER GGATE
TRANLOGOPTIONS INTEGRATEDPARAMS
(MAX_SGA_SIZE 2560 PARALLELISM 4)
LOGALLSUPCOLS
UPDATERECORDFORMAT COMPACT
TABLE SOE.ADDRESSES;
TABLE SOE.CARD_DETAILS;
TABLE SOE.CUSTOMERS;
…..
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_INFORMATION;
TABLE SOE.WAREHOUSES;
--CHECKPARAMS
EXTRACT PMPI
userid ggate password ggate
PASSTHRU
RMTHOST 192.168.65.68, MGRPORT 15000,
COMPRESS
RMTTRAIL ./dirdat/ri
REPORTCOUNT EVERY 1 MINUTES, RATE
TABLE SOE.ADDRESSES;
TABLE SOE.CARD_DETAILS;
TABLE SOE.CUSTOMERS;
TABLE SOE.INVENTORIES;
TABLE SOE.LOGON;
TABLE SOE.ORDER_ITEMS;
TABLE SOE.ORDERENTRY_METADATA;
TABLE SOE.ORDERS;
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_DESCRIPTIONS;
TABLE SOE.PRODUCT_INFORMATION;
TABLE SOE.WAREHOUSES;
REPLICAT REPI
SETENV
(ORACLE_HOME="/opt/oracle/app/product/12.1.0.
1/dbhome_1")
SETENV (ORACLE_SID="oemrep")
USERID ggate, PASSWORD ggate
ALLOWDUPTARGETMAP
ASSUMETARGETDEFS
REPORTCOUNT EVERY 1 MINUTES, RATE
DISCARDFILE ./dirrpt/REPCI.dsc, append,
megabytes 200
REPERROR(default, discard)
REPERROR(default2, discard)
DBOPTIONS INTEGRATEDPARAMS
(MAX_SGA_SIZE 2560, PARALLELISM 4,
MAX_PARALLELISM 6,
COMMIT_SERIALIZATION FULL)
MAP SOE.ADDRESSES, TARGET
SOE.ADDRESSES;
……;
MAP SOE.WAREHOUSES, TARGET
SOE.WAREHOUSES;

54. Performance (OEM View)
Capture Pump
Delivery
Trail
Files
Trail
Files

55. Report Counts
EXTI.rpt
1015083 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:49:21 (rate 90,delta 301)
1034022 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:50:22 (rate 91,delta 310)
1052135 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:51:22 (rate 92,delta 301)
PMPI.rpt
1033398 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:50:20 (rate 91,delta 304)
1052112 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:51:21 (rate 92,delta 310)
1069906 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:52:21 (rate 93,delta 294)
REPI.rpt
122370 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:40:33 (rate 502,delta 884)
188385 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:41:34 (rate 620,delta 1099)
317619 records processed as of 2015-02-14 01:42:35 (rate 872,delta 2143)
Changes since last
report count

56. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
EXTI
REPI
299
120
301
2143
Series1
Series2
Comparison
94.4% increase
in replicat
performance

57. STOP

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59. Further Reading
• MOS Note: 1557031.1 – patches for integrated capture and replicat
• MOS Note: 1448324.1 – OGG Integrated Healthcheck Script
• MOS Note: 1485620.1 – Best Practices for Downstream Capture
• MOS Note: 1488668.1 – GoldenGate Performance Data Gathering
• Oracle GoldenGate Best Practices:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/availability/maa-gg-performance-
1969630.pdf

60. ((RUN 2 REP – RUN 1 REP) / RUN 2 REP) * 100
((2143 - 120) / 2143) * 100 = 94.40%
Replicat Improvement Ratio