1. 1© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. November 2013 Oracle Performance & Optimization

2. 2© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Agenda Customer Challenges Examination of the Oracle Technology Stack FAST and Flash Technology Performance Reference Architecture Questions

3. 3© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC #1 In Storage For Applications OracleSharePointSAPExchangeVDI Home Directory Analytics #1 More Applications Deployed On EMC Storage Than Any Other Vendor In 2012– IDC Source: IDC, Storage Users Demand Study 2012 - Fall Edition: Customers Still Want Choice, #234651

4. 4© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Managing Capacity, Performance, Data Protection & Availability DBA Activities Increasing Monitor Availability Manage Backup & Recovery Manage Data Storage & Retrieval Diagnose Performance Issues Capacity Planning Patch Systems 77% 75% 71% 61% 60% 59% Big Data Visionaries: 2013 Data Science Skills Survey

5. 5© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Troubleshooting performance leads the list Lead Database Administrative Challenges Diagnosing database performance problems Keeping databases at current patch levels Identifying resource-intensive SQL statements 47% 44% 31% Managing larger number of databases 31% 29% Increase in security threats 28% Resource and capacity planning From Database Clouds to Big Data: 2013 IOUG Survey on Database Manageability

6. 6© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Storage Workload Requirements Capacity Performance Low Service Level High Service Level

7. 7© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Storage Strategy: Best of Breed, Open Capacity Performance Low Service Level High Service Level Isilon Atmos LEADER MIDRANGE STORAGE LEADER SCALE-OUT NAS STORAGE LEADER BACKUP LEADER OBJECT STORAGE Data Domain Avamar & NetWorker XtremIO LEADER HIGH-END STORAGE COMING: ALL FLASH STORAGE VMAX XtremSW XtremSF XtremSW XtremSF SERVER-SIDE STORAGE VNX

8. 8© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Visibility, Performance, Data Protection, Availability Simplifying Today’s Common Tasks

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11. 11© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SIX 9’S AVAILABILITY SNAP & CLONE INTEGRATION FULLY AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING MIXED WORKLOADS MULIT-ENGINE ARCHITECTURE PROVIDES HIGH PERFORMANCE FOR MIXED ORACLE & OTHER WORKLOADS (OLTP, DW, EXCHANGE…) VMAX Mission Critical Storage Platform for Oracle Most Popular Storage Platform for Mission Critical Oracle Environments VIRTUAL PROVISIONING HIGHLY REDUNDANT AND COMPONENT LEVEL FAILOVER DESIGN PROVIDES INDUSTRY LEADING SIX 9’S AVAILABILITY ORACLE DBA’s CAN CREATE CLONES &/OR SNAPS IN MINUTES TO LEVERAGE FOR TEST/DEV AND OTHER PURPOSES. INTEGRATED WITH ORACLES ‘CLONEDB’ TOOL INCREASE PERFORMANCE WHILE DRAMATICALLY REDUCING STORAGE COSTS WITH FULLY AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING TECHNOLOGY GUARANTEES ORACLE DATABASES HAVE THE CAPACITY THEY REQUIRE WHILE REDUCING STORAGE COSTS AND SIMPLIFYING MANAGEMENT

12. 12© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Benefits of a Open Performance Solution EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K, EMC XtremeCache, NEC Express5800/A1080a-E, and VMware vSphere 5 VMAX FAST VP: Oracle databases accelerated Response time is lowered from 35 – 20 milliseconds to under 5 milliseconds FAST VP combined with technologies like XtremSF (in server) PCIe flash cards drive very low response times Milliseconds

13. 13© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Virtualized Oracle TCO Analysis 3 Year HW/SW/Maintenance $5.3M 26% LOWER TCO 6X Performance Physical & No Flash $3.9M VMware FAST VP Cache/Memory $4.39M Oracle SW & Maintenance Oracle SW & Maintenance $2.75M Source: Wikibon, April 2013, Virtualization of Oracle Evolves to Best Practice for Production Systems

14. 14© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “ We selected VMAX because we needed enterprise level storage that would deliver high availability and performance in a predictable manner. VMAX has given us scale. It has given us very, very high availability and an ability to deliver more quickly to more clients.” Accenture And Navitaire VMAX Provides Zero Downtime For Technology Solution Provider Challenges  Mandated High Availability For Mission Critical Data  Required Technology Refresh And Data Migration  Needed Increased Scalability, Stability, and Performance Solutions  VMAX 20K (SRDF & FAST)  VMware Results  Achieved Zero Downtime For Global Infrastructure  Improved System Response Time By 25–50%  Increased CPU Utilization By 50–70%  Reduced Complex Reporting Jobs By 60-80% Applications  Oracle Andrew Wilson Sr. Managing Director of Infrastructure

15. 15© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “VPLEX + RecoverPoint will provide the exact RPO and RTO objectives across our full range of critical applications.” Lafarge Transforms IT To Accelerate Innovation And Reduce Costs Challenges  Explosive Data Growth across Global Business Requires Scalability  Protect Mission Critical Applications in Heterogeneous Storage Environment Solutions  EMC VNX unified storage  VMAX with FAST VP  VPLEX  RecoverPoint Results  VMAX Improved Application Performance by more than 40%  VPLEX Improved Availability for Mission Critical Applications  Reduced Storage Footprint by 72%, Power Usage by 54 Applications  VMware vCloud  Oracle JD Edwards ERP, Oracle Database  Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server Brent Wolfram Director of Technology and Security Architecture

16. 16© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Powering Oracle with VNX

17. 17© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Why VNX For Oracle Superior Virtualization Comprehensive VMware and Windows Server 2012 integration ◦VAAI, VASA, ODX, SMB 3.0, Oracle Virtualization Manager (OVM) Accelerated Performance with FLASH 1 st FAST VP auto-tiering + FAST Cache = Maximum performance Accelerate Oracle server performance with XtremSW Cache Oracle RAC / dNFS  flash performance + manageability Ultimate Resilience with VPLEX Active-Active across arrays Seamless application availability across sites High Availability with RecoverPoint Cross-platform solution for CDP and CRR Automates VMware DR testing, failover & failback

18. 18© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 00100100100101 1010101110101000011 101010010001100011101010 1100110001010111000010000101101 Oracle and Cisco conduct Oracle benchmark* Industry-Leading Performance for Oracle E-Business Suite * 07/2013- Oracle and Cisco conducted a Oracle E-Business Standard Benchmark to measure the batch performance of E-Business Suite R12 (12.1.3) with Oracle11g™ database, using a Cisco UCS B200 M3 server and a single EMC VNX5500 Over 1 Million Paychecks Processed In <1 Hour!

19. 19© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Scale Users & Performance with FAST Transactions Per Minute 132% Concurrent Users per Node Scalability Plateau (w/o FAST Cache) > 2x Scalability Plateau (w FAST Cache) dNFS ESG Proven Solution

20. 20© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Supercharge Oracle With VNX and FAST 38% 63% 2.2x IMPROVEMENT TPS with FAST SUITE 42% 67% 5.2x IMPROVEMENT READ LATENCY with FAST SUITE dNFS Read Latency Transactions Per Second ESG Proven Solution

21. 21© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “When we’re paying Oracle license fees per CPU, cutting down the number of physical servers decreases our overall Oracle licensing expense significantly. More Oracle Performance At Less Cost American Tire optimizes Oracle performance & protection with EMC ANGELIQUE GIBSON Director Of IT Operations Solution VNX Data Domain VMware Applications Oracle RAC Oracle E-Business Suite MySQL Cluster Results 65% faster Oracle back-end processing times 97% improved database utilization with VMware on VNX 2X faster backups and 9X faster restore with Data Domain using 50% less headcount to manage 9X reduction in servers reduces Oracle licensing costs Challenge Business growth creating excess hardware cost Inconsistent Oracle database utilization and performance Time consuming backup and recover processes

22. 22© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “Especially during peak loads, for example, when preparing quarterly financial statements, EMC’s Unified Storage system proved more than five times faster than the previous storage system. It’s a completely new paradigm for us.” 5X Oracle Performance With Flash 1st Carglass boosts Oracle performance while using 50% less disk FRANK MULLER IT Manager Solution VNX FAST Suite RecoverPoint Applications Oracle Results 5X more Oracle performance using 50% less disk Continuous remote data protection delivers recovery in 2 hours vs. 3 days and non-disruptive testing Challenge Need to improve performance for mission-critical apps Long recovery times exposing business to risk

23. 23© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “PeopleSoft batch processes used to take eight to ten hours, but now using FAST Cache, they complete in 30 to 40 minutes. This allows our business users to make faster decisions, affecting everything from productivity and safety out on the rigs to customer satisfaction and profitability.” 15X Oracle Performance With FAST Cache Ensco accelerates Oracle performance & recovery times on VNX MARSHALL BOSE Manager of IT Operations Solution VNX RecoverPoint Vmware Site Recovery Manager Applications Oracle PeopleSoft Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint Results 15X better batch processing with FAST Cache 40X faster recovery time with RecoverPoint/SRM Ability to create test environments in minutes instead of hours using virtual machines Challenge Business doubled its size in 12 months Data center consolidation with virtualization

24. 24© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Controller Based Encryption (CBE) for maximum protection and flexibility VNX Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE)*  Encrypts all user data on the array - at the drive level  All VNX data services supported  Embedded encryption key manager  Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - 256 encryption  Will be submitted for FIPS-140-2 Level 1 validation  Non-disruptive in-place upgrade on VNX2 Protects against DRIVE LOSS Federal mandate Industry compliance Often eliminates drive shredding * VNX D@RE available in Q3 2014 Q3 2014

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26. 26© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Supercharge Database Servers with Host-side Caching Accelerate Business with XtremCache 31% MORE IOPS 65% LESS LATENCY

27. 27© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Active-active Shared Storage via Distributed Cache Coherency Oracle RAC Support*  Oracle Database 11g on Windows, RHEL or OEL running Oracle Clusterware 11g with ethernet interconnect  Up to 8 nodes per cluster  Uses SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations to block joining node from accessing storage until XtremSW Cache approves it * Available October 2013

28. 28© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. XtremCache For Oracle Relative Transactions per Minute Time 1.0 3.1 210% BETTER PERFORMANCE Solution architecture consists of an Oracle Database, Cisco UCS C-460 server, and an EMC Symmetrix VMAX. EMC tested the capabilities of XtremSW Cache. Testing employed a standard TPC-C like OLTP workload with a 1.2 TB database and a 70–30% read/write mix with 250 GB of hot data. XtremSW Cache enabled on all data LUNs, but not on log LUNs. No tuning of Oracle Database. Symmetrix VMAX storage system: 4 Engines, 512 GB of mirrored cache; 16 x 250 GB data LUNs on 64 x 450 GB 15K rpm Fibre Channel drives (RAID 5), 4 x 200 GB log LUNs on 16 x 450 GB 15K rpm Fibre Channel drives (RAID 5); Database buffer cache 4 GB; server connected to Symmetrix VMAX using 4 x 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel.

29. 29© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. XtremCache For Oracle Solution architecture consists of an Oracle Database, Cisco UCS C-460 server, and an EMC Symmetrix VMAX. EMC tested the capabilities of XtremSW Cache. Testing employed a standard TPC-C like OLTP workload with a 1.2 TB database and a 70–30% read/write mix with 250 GB of hot data. XtremSW Cache enabled on all data LUNs, but not on log LUNs. No tuning of Oracle Database. Symmetrix VMAX storage system: 4 Engines, 512 GB of mirrored cache; 16 x 250 GB data LUNs on 64 x 450 GB 15K rpm Fibre Channel drives (RAID 5), 4 x 200 GB log LUNs on 16 x 450 GB 15K rpm Fibre Channel drives (RAID 5); Database buffer cache 4 GB; server connected to Symmetrix VMAX using 4 x 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel. Relative Application-Level Latency Time 1.0 0.4 60% BETTER RESPONSE TIMES

30. 30© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. XtremSF For Oracle Server Consolidation IOPS 4.3K 115K 27X BETTER PERFORMANCE Solution architecture consists of Oracle 11g R2, RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.7, Cisco UCS C-460 M2 rackmount server with 512 GB of memory and ten 600 GB SAS drives, and EMC XtremSF 2200. Testing employed a standard TPC-E like OLTP workload with a 1.2 TB database. No tuning of Oracle database. THAN LOCAL DISK 115,000 Transactions Per Minute

31. 31© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “IOPS from the flash drives results in a 15 percent performance increase. Add to that the high level of VNX performance and Flash 1 st and the result is a 30 percent performance increase for many applications,” Faster Oracle BI With XtremCache Cancer Research U.K. accelerates fight on cancer with EMC MICHAEL BRIGGS Head of Infrastructure Challenge  Over a petabyte of data growing at 30% pre year  Complex database queries impacting performance  Need for better availability and data protection models Solution  VNX and Flash 1 st  XtremCache  Data Domain/Networker Results  Increased application performance by 30%  Reduced database query time from 4 hours to 40 minutes  Total Protection Package simplifies availability

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33. 33© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC Community for Oracle DBAs DBA Flash & More Storage Visibility and Control Oracle Performance Faster Deployment, Higher Availability & Lower IT Costs Oracle Converged Infrastructure DBA Control of Backup, Recovery and Replication Oracle Backup & Recovery Logical and physical recovery and active- active availability Oracle Continuous Availability EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Oracle DBA www.emc.com/everythingoracle Optimize Oracle Infrastructure & Maximize DBA Productivity

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36. 36© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. INLINE DATA REDUCTION Never Write Duplicate Data THIN PROVISIONING 4KB Allocations Optimal Utilization DATA PROTECTION Flash-Optimized Zero Configuration WRITABLE SNAPSHOTS Instant Copies Full Performance Incredible Performance with Flash optimized Data Services So you’ve heard about XtremIO

37. 37© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1.Incredible Performance –Low & Consistent Latency –Linear Scalability –No Tuning – Ever!! – No Planning Required 2.Improves Agility – Free Test/Dev Copies of Data 3.Near Zero Administration - Ease of Use 4.Lowest TCO – Capital and Operational Savings –Oracle License Savings –DB Consolidation – Tremendous Data Center Savings XtremIO – OLTP Value Proposition

38. 38© Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. “We are able to engineer our Oracle RAC systems to be faster, more scalable, and handle more concurrent users, while at the same time requiring only 20% of the previous footprint in our data center” CMA Customer Profile Oracle RAC Data Warehouse Challenge  Extreme Performance (6GB/S Large Block Random Workload)  High User Concurrency  Fast Response Time Needed  Complex Setup/Tuning Solution  XtremIO All-Flash Array  VMAX 40K  SRDF  TimeFinder Application  Largest Medicaid Analytics Database (Oracle RAC) In US BRIAN DOUGHERTY Chief Data Warehouse Architect Results  Five 9s Availability And Zero Downtime  Predictable And Reliable Response Time  Flexible Open Architecture Enables Scalability  Low TCO With Ease Of Management