1 Top Five Tips and Tricks for DBAs and Storage Admins Deploying Oracle Database 12c Gagan Singh Sr. Database Architect Technology and Manufacturing Group Intel Corporation

2 Agenda Company OverviewArchitecture LayoutZS3-4 Configuration SnapshotValueKey Learnings

3 Intel Corporation The World’s Largest Semiconductor Manufacturer 3 Leading Manufacturer of Computer, Networking & Communications Products Headquartered in Santa Clara, California $55.9B in Annual Revenues Consecutive Years of Positive Net Income Over 107,000 Employees, 170 Sites in +70 Countries Ranked #12 on Forbes World’s Most Reputable Companies

4 Architecture Layout InfiniBand Network RHEL RAC Historical Data Applications Transactional Applications Transactional Platinum Gateway Exadata X4-8 Oracle ZS3-4 Applications Historical / Analytics Applications Historical / Analytics RHEL RAC Tier 1 Storage 10Gbe Data Transfer from ONLINE DB

5 Oracle ZS3-4 Configuration Snapshot Backups RAID Z1 Oracle Direct NFS Client Record size-1Mb Logbias- Throughput MTU channels/compute node Database Mirrored Oracle Direct NFS Client Record Size 128K Logbias –Latency(DATA drives) MTU 9000 No ASM

6 Performance 22Tb/hr backup throughput –for VLDB Sql queries meeting SLA for historical data. Improved Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives Simplicity Flexibility to thin clone databases Seamless data movement between OLTP and historical DB Manageability through Enterprise Manager Easy management of underlying disks Savings Lower TCO than competitive product Storage for Offline database ~100TB ILM – HCC Compression through partitioning. Support Single vendor escalation and support Interactive admin GUI Platinum Gateway Monitoring(S/W+H/W) Value

7 Lessons Learnt Direct NFS enabled for database and Exadata backups --Check Direct NFS related patches ( , ) Define logical space within ZFS, if it is being shared Leverage the ZFS GUI for real time Monitoring and Operations --Analytics to monitor metrics, integrated with EM12c No ASM for hosting Database Check db_file_multiblock_readcount,_ldr_io_size,_max_io_size Define share properties according to I/O type (Read vs Write) storage/documentation/oracle11gr2-zfssa-bestprac pdf

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