Oracle Application Engineered Storage:

The Best for Oracle Database

Discover What Oracle’s Advanced Storage Solutions
Are Doing for Oracle Database Customers
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 INTRODUCING ORACLE
CHAPTER 1
APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE
ORACLE APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE:
CHAPTER 2
THE BEST PRIMARY STORAGE FOR YOUR DATABASE

ORACLE APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE:

CHAPTER 3
THE BEST FOR TEST AND DEVELOPMENT
ORACLE APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE:
CHAPTER 4
THE BEST FOR BACKUP AND RECOVERY

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 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCING APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE

Oracle’s storage solutions are This e-book covers how these

co-engineered with Oracle software database-aware, high-performance,
storage solutions provide the best
to deliver advantages unobtainable
platform for:
by other vendors, including maximum
performance and efficiency with Primary Storage:
simplified management and ease of
deployment – helping you get the most • Seamless Oracle Storage and Oracle
from your database for Software integration
the lowest TCO. • Next-generation management tools
• Dramatically reduced costs
• Innovative compression and
performance capabilities

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Test and Development: Backup and Recovery:

• Simplified provisioning and • Backup speeds improved by up to 7x

management
• Savings of hundreds of thousands
• Real-time insight into system activity of dollars
• Reduced risk • Advanced data integrity features
• Automated cloning processes • Seamless Infiniband integration with
Oracle servers and engineered systems

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 CHAPTER TWO

ORACLE APPICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE:

THE BEST PRIMARY STORAGE FOR YOUR DATABASE
As storage requirements increase, Oracle’s advanced storage solutions
costs can rise, infrastructures can offer efficient, high-performance
platforms to help get the best from
become more complex, and application
Oracle Database deployments.
performance can suffer. For this reason, Organizations running Oracle Database
it is important that organizations will find that Oracle application
adopt storage solutions that efficiently engineered storage makes it possible
leverage resources and extract the very to maximize efficiency, purchase
best value from the hardware they own. less storage, and achieve a lower
TCO through:

• Unique points of integration between

Oracle storage and Oracle software
that allow storage systems to run
faster
• Innovative data reduction, data
services, and storage consolidation
capabilities that increase storage
efficiency
• Leading-edge management tools that
make Oracle storage easier to deploy
and manage

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Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Pillar Axiom 600

Oracle’s ZFS Storage Appliance Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600 storage

family delivers enterprise-class, NAS system delivers industry-
storage capabilities with best-in- leading SAN consolidation with
class performance, efficiency, and unmatched capacity utilization,
full Oracle Database integration, ease of use, and extreme
helping you: efficiency, helping you:
• Accelerate business • Ensure predictable
performance and increase performance
productivity for each application when
• Increase storage efficiency consolidating storage
by 10x to 15x while lowering
• Store 10x-15x more data
the cost of storage for Oracle
without increasing expenditure
Database environments
• Streamline Oracle Database • Scale capacity and
setup and tuning by over 65% performance as needed
with a modular design
• Reduce administration costs
by up to 36% • Dramatically simplify
systems management to
• Mitigate risk and dramatically further reduce costs
reduce the chance of undetected
data corruption • Accelerate application
deployment by prioritizing
• Remove complexity by
applications with a unique
consolidating multiple existing
Quality of Service architecture
NAS systems into a single
high-performance platform that
supports multiple workloads

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UNREACHABLE UNIQUE FEATURES

Oracle’s ZFS Storage Appliances The features of the Pillar Axiom 600
and Pillar Axiom 600 storage systems help you:
offer unique capabilities that make • Provide the right power to the right
them the ideal primary storage systems applications with integrated dynamic
for Oracle Databases. management of I/O prioritization

Quality of Service (QoS) Architecture • Simplify management with an easy

to use graphical interface to ensure
The Pillar Axiom 600 is an ‘application critical applications perform to
aware’ storage solution featuring their best
Oracle’s patented Quality of Service • Deliver unmatched capacity utilization
technology. This enables users to of up to 1.66 Petabytes of storage
differentiate the performance delivered
to different applications based on
business priority, and use multiple types
of physical storage to optimize price/
performance ratios.

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 GHICL required one storage solution to

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Customers Say support the entire hospital information
HOSPITAL GROUP OF THE CATHOLIC system with the ability to easily
INSTITUTE OF LILLE (GHICL) manage data from other entities.
GHICL chose Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600
“Oracle’s powerful and scalable
storage solution with Oracle Database
storage solution saves us time and
11g, Release 2 to optimize patient
responds exactly to our needs,
information storage management
enabling us to adapt medical data
at two remote sites, and to support
storage space and accessibility,
the installation of its new electronic
based on how critical the
imaging system.
information is, while supporting
the patient’s best interest.”

– Philippe Wlodyka, Adjunct

Director in Charge of
“ Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600 enabled
the hospital to:

Information Systems, GHICL • Cut total cost of ownership by 50%

• Consolidate more than 10 TB of data
to a single storage solution
GHICL is a university hospital complex
conducting research and providing • Access data in real time, through the
healthcare through two hospitals and QoS architecture
a clinic.
• Reduce data backup from two hours
and 18 minutes to just 38 minutes
• Significantly increase security
and accessibility

View full Case Study

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 CHAPTER TWO cont.

HYBRID COLUMNAR COMPRESSION

Oracle Database Hybrid Columnar warehouses, historical data in OLTP

Compression (HCC) provides a robust database partitions, and other mixed
use environments.
set of features that dramatically
reduce infrastructure costs, enable the Using HCC in your data center can
highest levels of data compression, help you:
and provide users with significant
performance improvements when • Compress historical data by
10X – 15X and shrink total capacity
querying historical data.
requirements by 40% or more
HCC is a capability of Oracle Database • Increase application performance
that is enabled when the database by as much as 5x when querying
detects that the Oracle ZFS Storage historical data
Appliance, Pillar Axiom, or Oracle
Exadata Storage Servers are being • Dramatically reduce the cost of
used for database storage. The Oracle storing and managing data
Database can be running on any server
and with any operating system since
the integration is directly between
the database software and Oracle
storage. HCC technology uses a
modified columnar method of storing
and compressing data which increases
storage efficiency and minimizes
I/O requests, providing the benefits
of columnar compression for data
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“ Customers Say
M&R PRINTING EQUIPMENT INC.

“Our deployment of Oracle’s

M&R’s legacy hardware infrastructure
showed signs of aging and users
were experiencing system failures and
slowdowns. In order to modernize, the
ZFS Storage 7320 appliance was company wanted to take advantage
a key part of a larger IT initiative of virtualization to improve scalability
in which we also virtualized and and performance while reducing costs.
consolidated almost two dozen M&R chose Oracle’s ZFS Storage 7320
physical servers. This initiative appliance as the foundation for a shared
has been an enormous success, storage environment.
as we’ve achieved significant
savings and gained scalability, as Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage 7320
well as unimaginable flexibility appliance enabled M&R to:
and performance in our IT
environment.”
“ • Reduce their storage footprint by 58%
– Jason Coe, IT Manager, • Increase raw capacity 278%
M&R Printing Equipment Inc.
• Decrease data center energy
consumption and cooling costs
M&R Printing Equipment Inc. is the by 52%
world’s largest manufacturer of screen • Set up virtual labs in minutes instead
printing equipment for the graphic and of weeks
textile industries, and has distributors
and support operations across the globe.
View full Case Study

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 CHAPTER TWO cont.

Oracle’s ZFS Storage Appliance

“
Customers Say helped the bank to:
BANQUE AGRICOLE DU NIGER
• Establish the lowest storage and
“Oracle has combined performance energy footprint, with 10-50x
and ease of integration between its compression ratios from Hybrid
server products, storage products, Columnar Compression
and Oracle Database that allow for
• Achieve 99.999% database uptime
an optimized exploitation of these
for OLTP, OLAP, data warehousing,
applications in very demanding
backup, and third-party applications
IT environments.” “ • Realize an immediate, low TCO
– Frédéric Rouvier, Chief
Executive Officer, EU • Simplify storage management
Technology S.A. with an easy-to-use interface and
intuitive analytics
Niger is a developing country with one • Implement StorageTek tape libraries
of the lowest rankings in the United to scale storage up to nearly 20
Nations’ Human Development Index. terabytes without adding system
In February 2011, to deal with food components – lowering energy
crises resulting from poor harvests, consumption by 20%
the government established Banque
Agricole du Niger (BAGRI) with the goal
of financing agricultural projects for View full Case Study
small and medium-sized farmers.

BAGRI needed to deploy a state-of-

the-art IT platform with a low-cost
storage environment that was scalable
enough to match the bank’s projected
development, while meeting regulatory
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 “
The hospital deployed Oracle’s Pillar
Customers Say Axiom 600 storage system as the
CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE DOUAI foundation for its new environment
and was able to:
“Today, thanks to our new
infrastructure built on Pillar Axiom • Replicate the Pillar Axiom 600 to
600 and Oracle Database, our store 100 virtual servers; all hospital
staff can now focus on getting applications, including payments,
what they need from applications, accounts, patient files, and lab
whereas before they only spoke results; and 40 terabytes of data
about problems. With Oracle’s Pillar
Axiom 600 and Oracle Database, • Simplify processes by creating a
our IT infrastructure seamlessly shared diary, supported on Oracle
ensures we can provide high quality Database, for all care staff
of care to our patients.” • Ensure 100% availability of critical
– Philippe Huddlestone, hospital applications and continuous,
Information Systems and
Telecommunications Director,
“ secure, rapid and reliable access to
highly sensitive data
Centre Hospitalier de Douai. • Reduce electricity consumption in
accordance with state requirements,
using energy-efficient Pillar Axiom
The Centre Hospitalier de Douai has 600s to replace old storage racks
made patient care optimization one
of its top strategic objectives, and to View full Case Study
meet this goal it needs to guarantee
a high level of accessibility to patient
files, lab results, medical imaging and
other materials.

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 CHAPTER THREE

ORACLE APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE:

THE BEST FOR DEVELOPMENT AND TEST
With multiple copies of databases Using Oracle’s ZFS Storage
often required to support the Appliance for development, test
and quality assurance ensures
application development and test
customers can:
activities in each production base, it is
crucial that the cloning process doesn’t • Reduce licensing costs with thin
impact performance. Cloning can prove provisioning, compression and
a substantial administrative burden, protocols such as NFS, FC, CIFS,
iSCSI and Infiniband included at no
occupying resources better spent on extra cost
critical support functions, raising costs,
and increasing storage consumption. • Automate cloning processes with
predefined scripts and workflows

• Gain real-time insight into system

activity with DTrace Analytics

• Improve performance and simplify

processes at up to 30% less expense
than traditional solutions, saving
hundreds of thousands of dollars
in license fees

• Save on space, power and storage

with no additional capacity needed
for clone creation

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• Reduce risk with Oracle Optimized The Snap Management Utility is a
Solutions and Maximum Availability standalone management tool specifically
Architectures tested, validated and engineered to work with the Oracle ZFS
supported by Oracle Storage Appliance, delivering:

• Simplify provisioning and management • Simple, fast, efficient management

with an easy-to-use interface of database snapshots and clones
through the DBAs console
ZFS Storage Appliance
Snap Management Utility for • Support for most Oracle 10g or
Oracle Database later database deployed on an
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
The Snap Management Utility for
Oracle Database simplifies, accelerates • Support for Solaris, Linux and
and automates snapshots, clones and Windows clients for databases
protection of Oracle Databases, helping configured for NAS or SAN storage
improve productivity by allowing DBAs • Support for Oracle Real Application
to work with greater flexibility, less risk, Clusters (RAC)
and no impact on database performance.

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 CHAPTER THREE cont.

“
R. L. Polk & Co. (Polk) is a leader in
Customers Say automotive information and marketing
R. L. POLK & CO. solutions. The company collects and
interprets data, and provides business
“Oracle Hybrid Columnar expertise to help its customers
Compression’s compatibility with understand their market position,
ZFS Storage Appliance was an identify trends, build brand loyalty, win
important factor in our decision new business - and gain competitive
process. Without Oracle’s advantage.
compression capabilities, we would
have had to uncompress every Looking to continually expand services
database to transfer it to the test and develop new applications for its
environment—a process that would clients, Polk wanted to improve the
be extremely time consuming and performance of its development and
not possible in some instances due testing centers to better replicate
to the size of the database.” production conditions and accelerate

– Doug Miller, Director,

Database Development and
“ time to deployment. Polk selected
Oracle’s ZFS Storage 7420 to
backup and restore an entire database,
Support, R. L. Polk & Co. test full-scale data, and identify issues
more quickly and more accurately.

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Oracle’s ZFS Storage 7420
helped Polk to:

• Dramatically improve application

response times

• Replicate complete databases in

development and test environments

• Improve compression by an
average of 5x to 10x

R. L. Polk & Co. Oracle uses HCC

View full Case Study with Oracle’s ZFS Storage

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 CHAPTER FOUR

ORACLE APPLICATION ENGINEERED STORAGE:

THE BEST FOR BACKUP AND RECOVERY
Data is an organization’s most • A superior backup and recovery
important asset, so it makes sense to solution for your Oracle Database
with Oracle RMAN
do everything possible to protect it,
to minimize the risks of financial loss • The ability to back up databases
and reputational damage. 3x faster
• Savings of hundreds of thousands of
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance provides dollars through built-in software, data
a dependable solution for the backup services, communication protocols,
and recovery of mission-critical data, and productivity-enhancing features
at up to 75% less cost than
traditional solutions. • Connect directly to Oracle Exadata,
Oracle SuperCluster and high-
Whether you are using an Oracle performance Oracle Servers
Exadata, Oracle SuperCluster, or with Infiniband integration
running Oracle Database on traditional • The power to backup and reuse data
servers, protecting data with the Oracle in HCC formats, reducing storage
ZFS Storage Appliance provides the capacity and improving development
simplicity, cost-efficiency, reduced and test, QA, reporting, and
risk and outstanding performance disaster recovery
organizations require – along with:

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 “
The company needed to prepare for
Customers Say continued growth by simplifying its IT
SUNGARD AVAILABILITY SERVICES structure, improving storage capacity, and
consolidating existing systems. SunGard
“Over the last five or six years, selected Oracle’s Exadata Database
we’ve seen our data grow Machine and Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage
significantly, putting real stress on Appliance to work with an existing Oracle
our infrastructure. Oracle Exadata infrastructure, help consolidate systems,
and the ZFS Storage Appliance have and simplify backup and recovery.
enabled us to address massive
growth, improve performance, and Oracle’s ZFS Storage 7420 helped
be more responsive to customer SunGard to:
requests.”

– Hal Moretto, Director of

Database Platforms, SunGard
“ • Increase performance by 70%with
Oracle Exadata running Oracle
E-Business Suite
Availability Services
• Protect legacy investments with
Oracle Solaris 11’s 100% binary
SunGard Availability Services provides compatibility guarantee
IT operations support to keep
businesses’ mission-critical systems up • Develop a highly reliable, faster
and running. SunGard provides disaster and more responsive disaster
recovery, cloud services, managed recovery platform
services, IT consulting, and business
continuity management software
View full Case Study
solutions to a wide range of industries.

Over the past five to six years SunGard’s

data nearly tripled in size, placing stress
on its existing infrastructure.
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 CHAPTER FOUR cont.

“ Customers Say
DIGI-KEY CORPORATION

“When compared to deploying

Using a combination of the Oracle
Exadata Database Machine and Oracle’s
ZFS Storage Appliance, Digi-Key was
able to:
commodity hardware, there is no
comparison. Ordinary commodity • Complete high-speed reliable
hardware would have taken us backups in hours instead of days
much longer to install than it took
• Improve storage backup capacity and
to install Oracle Exadata. We were
quickly retrieve critical data in the
also wowed with the performance
event of a systems failure or disaster
of backups to Oracle’s ZFS Storage
Appliance because, in the case of a • Expand storage capacity to up
system failure or disaster, we are able to 33 terabytes of data with
to retrieve data and be up and running triple redundancy
quickly.”
– Miles Oustad, Manager,
Database Services, Digi-Key
“ • Add scalable capacity and
performance to support
future growth
Corporation.
• Accelerate more than 80% of
queries with Oracle Exadata
Digi-Key Corporation is one of the Database Machine
largest electronic components
distributors in North America with more
than 479,000 customers in over 170
View full Case Study
countries. The company processes
approximately 15,000 orders a day and
prides itself on processing shipments
within 20 minutes of order receipt.

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Novation LLC uses Oracle Exadata Apollo Group deploys integrated
and Oracle’s ZFS Storage 7420 hardware and software from
appliance to reduce costs and Oracle, including Oracle Exadata
improve operational efficiency. and the Oracle ZFS Storage
Appliance, to streamline backup
and recovery.

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