Case Study: Engineered Systems with Exadata &

Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Angelo Joseph, Director Exalogic ANZ Oracle Corporation

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Technology Positioning

The End of an Era

High Touch, High Cost, Low Return

In-house platforms:
Design, Develop
Test, Document
Procure, Deploy
Operate, Maintain
Inhibits growth
Misdirects innovation
Wastes time and
resources

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Do it Yourself 19 Item Checklist

Setting up a System, One Piece at a Time
1. Assess application requirements
2. Research available component technologies and vendor products
3. Identify all software components and evaluate compatibility, drivers, etc.
4. Obtain server, storage, network and other components from vendor(s) for trial use
5. Assemble hardware components, including network design
6. Install base software components (sufficient to test networking)
7. Test physical system, working with vendor(s) to identify defects
8. Obtain patches/fixes for identified defects from vendors and deploy to test system
9. Deploy/install patches or new hardware
10.Repeat 7-9 until stable
11.Deploy upper-stack (application or application-server complex)
12.Test upper stack
13.Obtain patches/fixes for identified defects from vendors and deploy to test system
14.Deploy/install patches or new hardware
15.Repeat 12-14 until stability and performance goals have been met
16.Finalize supply chain (vendor price negotiations, component EOL practice, etc.)
17.Fully document platform state and platform-specific operating/maintenance
procedures, vendor support engagement practices and internal triage protocol
18.Move the system from test/development to production
19.Start over when someone changes the application requirements, when a key
vendor product is discontinued or EOL prematurely, when a key component
vendor is no longer viable
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Engineered and Delivered

Exadata / Exalogic vs. HP BladeSystem

Application
Platform
Layer
OS Layer

Integrated
Tuned

HP Blades
Compute
Layer

Identical

Platform
HP Networking

Optimized

Different

Every

I/O Layer

Time
Storage
Layer

HP Storage

1 Engineered System

162 parts

Unpack to production in hours

Months from start to production

Traditional n-tier IT Platform

Hardware + Software foundation for IT transformation

Web Tier

Horizontal
Scale

Middleware Tier

Horizontal &
Vertical Scale

Database Tier

Vertical Scale

Software

Hardware

Oracle Business Platform

Hardware + Software foundation for IT transformation

Vertical
Apps

Software

Pre-built, Pre-integrated, Pre-engineered

Hardware

Case Study

Customer Situation
Profile
Leading university, the second oldest University in Australia
6500 staff members
Over 47 000 students
More than 11,800 international students from over 120 countries

Higher Education Sector has been impacted by a number of external factors and is
unable to adequately respond

Economic climate
Student populations and geographies, growing international intake
Course selection, content, qualification, etc
Multi-channel
Self-Service

Inadequate Security solution in place

Inadequate non-functional requirements in place for the Students Portal, i.e. Problems
with Reliability, High Availability, Performance and Scalability.

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Challenges
Old systems costing too much
Rationalisation required

New capabilities required

Old tooling lacked features, productivity, manageability

72 projects initiated
72 Compelling events to act within a given timeframe

New / expanded business

Grow the Brand Multi-Channel, faster response, better integration,
intuitive usage, viral adoption
Protect the integrity of the Brand RASP

Provide integration and data management backbone,

consolidation and standardisation approach to address it's Tier 1
applications platform

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Oracle Value Proposition

Oracle developed a strategy to engage
Help them find common architectural pieces

Obtain outcomes by reducing associated risks

Consolidation / Rationalisation offering
Full stack Certified platform
Integrated
Broad solution coverage
Exalogic, Exadata, Security for all channels of access,
Coherence, OID, GG, WC, UCM, OSB, BPEL, etc.

Alleviate Hardware and Software loading issues.

Engineered Platform strengths with Exalogic / Exadata
Reliability, HA, Performance and Scalability.
Coherence - Absorb more readily the load problems rather than hit
back end systems.

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Portal Solution Mapping

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Student/Staff Portal and Service Layer

Service Access
Management

Student

Services

Student

Oracle
Enterprise Gateway
Course
Subject Oracle Enterprise
Staff Gateway
Timetable

Course

Subject

Staff

Worklist

Timetable

Worklist
Oracle
Entitlements
Server

Person
Party

Worklist

Security &
Directory

Actionable
WorklistItem
Ack Req Notification

Organisation

Notification

*
Role

Completed
Subject
Requested
Subject
Student

Object Model

Location

Subject

Account

Staff

Scheduled
Subject

Subject
Execution

teaches[]

Enrolled
Subject

assigned[]
Staff

Requested
Course

Enrolled
Course

Object Cache
Service Bus
Source
Application
Services/APIs

Oracle
Directory
Server
(OUD)

assigned[]

Resources

finalUnits []

1
*

teaches[]

Completed
Course

Timetable
Entry

Prereq Subject

prereqUnits []

Faculty

Course

Coherence

Coherence

Coherence

Coherence

OSB

OSB

OSB

OSB

OWSM

OWSM

OWSM

OWSM

OWSM

OWSM

WS-Impl

WS-Impl

WS-Impl

WS-Impl

WS-Impl

WS-Impl

Learning Mgmt
System

Student
Admin/Info
System

Other
System

Other
System

Other
System

Other
System

Oracle
Entitlements
Server

Coherence In-Memory Grid

Object Caching

Enterprise
Applications

Real Time
Clients

Web
Services

Data Services

Oracle
Coherence
Data Grid

Databases

Mainframes

Web Services

Will cache database data in

memory, closer to the
application offloading data
access from back-end data
stores
Will provides a reliable data tier
with a single, consistent view of
data
Will enables dynamic data
capacity including fault
tolerance and load balancing
Will ensures that data capacity
scales with processing capacity

Oracle Data Integration Solutions

Example Flow
1. Extract real-time data from Information Systems into database
environment with GoldenGate
2. Transformation to MDM model with ODI
3. Using GoldenGate to update Coherence data in real-time
4. On-demand feeds from other databases to service bus with ODI
Oracle
GoldenGate

IS
Log Based, RealTime Change Data
Capture

MIS

3
2

Oracle
GoldenGate

ODI

Portal

Service Bus
MDM

MID

ODI
Other
Heterogeneous
databases

Coherence

ODI

Applications

Oracle Identity Management

Where does it fit

OAM

OES

Oracle
Entitlement
Gateway

OIM

Physical Components
Ability for Growth
Site 1

Site 2

Exalogic
OracleVM

Exadata

Exalogic
OracleVM

Exadata

University Logical Deployment

Student Portal System
Site1

Site2

PRE-PROD
OVM Farm
PRODUCTION /
TEST

Active Standby
ExaLogic Rack

ExaLogic Rack

ExaLogic Rack

ExaLogic Rack

TEST / UAT

PRODUCTION (1)

PRODUCTION (2)

UAT DR / DEV

TEST

PRODUCTION

OVM Farm
PRODUCTION
(DR) / DEV

DEVELOPMENT

Active Standby

Exadata Rack
PRODUCTION

Exadata Rack
PRODUCTION

Active Data Guard

Exadata Rack
PROD/TEST/DEV

Application-to-Disk Management
Complete Stack Management
Integrated manageability across the
entire University solution stack
Student Portal, LMS,
Other Applications
Weblogic, OPMN,
MS IIS, Tomcat, .Net
11gR2, 10gR2
Oracle Enterprise
Linux
Oracle VM
Oracle Exalogic,
Oracle Exadata,
Oracle Sun Hardware
Oracle Sun Hardware

Manage all Exalogic, Exadata,

application, middleware and
database targets from one
centralised console

Best of breed manageability built into

each tier
Manage Oracle & Non-Oracle

Benefits include:
Achieve higher levels of
performance, availability, agility and
control
Increased service level monitoring
Troubleshoot problems more quickly
Increased productivity
Reduced management complexity
and costs

Summary of Approach
Align with all parts of the business & IT

Enterprise Architects
Business Owners
Projects
CIO, CTO

Focus on a strategy to engage which defines and

drives the architectural model
Maintain stakeholder support to obtain original
outcome

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Summary

Exadata Software Innovations

Exadata Storage Server Software
Intelligent storage

Hybrid Columnar Compression

Smart Scan query offload

Scale-out storage

Smart Flash Cache

10x compression for warehouses

15x compression for archives

Data
remains
compressed
for scans
and in Flash

Accelerates random I/O up to 30x

Doubles data scan rate

Uncompressed

primary backup

Benefits
Multiply

test
standby

devt

Compressed

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Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software

Optimized Network Virtualization
Standard Hardware I/O
Application

Application

Application Buffer

Application Buffer

Copy

Exabus
Application

Application

TCP IP Transport

Kernel

20% Buffer Copies

40% Transport Processing
40 % Kernel Context Switches

Zero Buffer Copy

Direct Memory Access
Kernel Bypass

4X Throughput, 6X Lower Latency

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Oracle Exalogic and Exadata Together

Designed for Seamless Interoperability, Unmatched Performance

960 Gigabits/second
(Maximum: 24x InfiniBand QDR)
Exclusive: direct InfiniBand integration!
Extreme performance, reliability, security
Simple to deploy and manage

Exadata

Exalogic
Typical

3X
OLTP Performance gain

Active GridLink
Resource-aware load balancing
Instantaneous connection failover
Transaction affinity to RAC nodes
SQLnet optimized for InfiniBand SDP

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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Exadata

Easier to Buy, Easier to Own, Easier to Operate

Fastest Application Performance

At least 2x improvement in response times

At least 2x increase in throughput

Best performance for Oracle Applications

Fastest DB Performance
10 50X Faster Queries
4 10X Faster OLTP
10X Less Disk Storage

Lowest TCO
At least 50% lower TCO

Engineered System
1 Vendor Solution: Hardware, Software
Fastest path to market
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For More Information

White Papers
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: A Brief Introduction
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Software Overview
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: X2-2 Hardware Overview

Links
Contact
www.oracle.com/exalogic
www.oracle.com/exadata
www.oracle.com/weblogic
Twitter.com/OracleExalogic
Twitter.com/OracleWebLogic
Blogs.Oracle.com/ApplicationGrid
Facebook.com/Exalogic

Resources

Extraneous Slides

Customers

Exalogic Customers (externally approved logos)

Rapid Adoption Across All Industries and Geographies

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FY11 | Great Customer Benchmarks

Square two

Cetelem
Response Time

5x Performance

6x Throughput

Northern Trust
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Average Response Time Comparison

Customer Environment vs. Exalogic+Exadata

Response Time in Seconds

16
14

Deutsche Telecom

12

Customer Environment

10

Exa*

9x Performance

8x Throughput

4
2
0

End User Portal Page

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Engineering Level Optimization Matters

Custom Integrated
Management
Tools

Oracle

Oracle's Engineered Stack

Management Tools

Applications

Management
Tools

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Management
Tools

VMware

Middleware / Database
OS / Virtualization
Server

Management
Tools

HP

Management
Tools

EMC/NetApp

Management
Tools

Brocade

Storage
Storage Network

Lower Cost / Greater Capabilities /

Accelerated Deployment