2010 Issue 3

Streamlining enterprise database environments for business continuity

Date : 10/1/2010
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Managing a database environment presents common challenges across midsize and large organizations, including controlling costs, optimizing resource utilization, scaling the environment effectively, and isolating resources to help ensure maximum availability and performance. Many organizations are also looking to reduce power, cooling, and space requirements in the data center. At the same time, organizations may lack sufficient IT resources to deploy, manage, and maintain complex or customized environments.

Combining Oracle® Database 11g and multiprotocol Dell/EMC unified storage, along with Oracle Direct Network File System (DNFS) included in Oracle Database 11g, helps efficiently address these challenges. Organizations deploying Dell/EMC unified storage can migrate Oracle databases between network attached storage (NAS) protocols and storage area network (SAN) protocols without downtime, enabling administrators to match database operations to the appropriate protocol and infrastructure. And by embedding the Network File System (NFS) client directly in the Oracle Database application kernel, Oracle DNFS helps reduce memory and processor utilization, thereby enhancing performance. Using EMC® SnapSure™ and EMC Replication Manager software with Dell/EMC unified storage also enables high-speed, nondisruptive array-based snapshots and quick replication without reducing database server performance.

Server processor capacity is one of the most precious resources in enterprise IT environments, particularly in database architectures. Oracle DNFS offers a highly tuned protocol that helps Dell/EMC unified storage deliver high performance, low server processor overhead, and simplified administration. Together with virtualization, the Dell/EMC unified storage platform enables organizations running Oracle database software to maximize performance and scalability based on workload requirements while helping simplify backup operations, accelerate deployments with cloning, and increase the performance of disaster recovery operations.