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Actifio DCA for Oracle

Understanding the business and IT impact of the Actifio Database Cloning Appliance powered by Dell Technologies for Oracle databases

Agenda

• Actifio Database Cloning Appliance (DCA) for Oracle
• Questions for Oracle Customers / Prospects
• Wrap-Up
• Q&A
• Appendix: DCA vs. Competition

Actifio Database Cloning Appliance for Oracle

Oracle Overview

• Market leader in annual

Gartner MQ

• #1 in market share*
• $39.5B revenue (2019)

*per IDC

What is Database Cloning?

DEV TEST QA PATCH PRODUCTION

What are the Challenges for Cloning Oracle DBs?

Databases are Getting Bigger More Copies Are Needed for the Business Making Physical Copies is Too Slow

Last but not least…

Oracle environments are complex Enterprises typically use multiple point tools High TCO, Delays, Confusion

+ =

EBS ASM RAC Exadata

Virtual Database Clones – Available Instantly

DEV TEST QA PATCH PRODUCTION

Virtual Copy Virtual Copy Virtual Copy Virtual Copy

Actifio Database Cloning Appliance Powered by Dell Technologies

How DCA Works for Oracle Databases

DB

2

Mount staging disk on DB server

Snap Pool

2

Invoke RMAN Incremental API to copy changed blocks

3

Invoke RMAN incremental merge to create new virtual full

4 6

Unmount staging disk from DB server

5

DCA takes an internal snapshot. PIT Virtual Full is ready

6 3 4 5

DB Server DCA Connector Bit Map

Connector is deployed in Oracle server

1 1

Test Machine

For data cloning, DCA instantly mounts re-writable staging disk and brings DB online; on-premises or in cloud

7

Test Machine

7

DATA CLONING DATA CAPTURE

DCA Details

• Instant virtual read/write instances
• f databases – lower data access

times

• Manage data lifecycle regardless of

location for a lower TCO

• Native API integration with SAP

including HANA, Oracle, MS SQL Server

• Self service automation with higher

levels of efficiencies

• Create virtual point-in-time copies of

a production database

• Compress time for database

provisioning, refresh, and rollback from hours/days to sec/minutes

• On-premises or in any cloud
• Built in access controls and sensitive

data flagging

Actifio Database Cloning Appliance Powered by Dell Technologies

How Does Business / IT Benefit?

• Accelerate releases for revenue-generating apps
• Build higher-quality applications for improved customer satisfaction
• Reduce provisioning & refresh time for large Oracle DBs
• Leverage existing scripts / automation for masking and toolchain

(Ansible, Github, Jenkins, etc.)

• Automate towards “no ops”, enable self-service
• Accelerate digital transformation
• Leverage ECS / Data Domain / public cloud for cost or agility

benefits

Questions for Oracle Customers / Prospects

Four Simple Questions

How big is your largest Oracle database? How many copies do you make? How much time does it take?

A typical enterprise will have Oracle databases >10TB and, in many cases >100TB Development and / or analytics intensive enterprises will make at least 12-15 copies of Oracle databases The average time to provision or refresh a multi- TB Oracle database is 8hrs

• r more

How complex is your Oracle environment?

Most environments contain many flavors of Oracle (EBS, ASM, RAC, Exadata, etc.)

#1: Data Size

How big is your largest Oracle database? How many copies do you make? How much time does it take?

A typical enterprise will have Oracle databases >10TB and, in many cases >100TB Development and/or analytics intensive enterprises will make at least 12-15 copies of production databases The average time to provision or refresh a multi- TB database is 8hrs or more

Capture block-level incremental forever, while maintaining virtual full point-in-time copies

Provisioning and refresh is nearly instant, regardless of DB size Data transport into / across clouds is performed most efficiently

How many copies do you make?

Development and / or analytics intensive enterprises will make at least 12-15 copies of Oracle databases

#2: Copy Volume

How many copies do you make? How much time does it take?

Development and/or analytics intensive enterprises will make at least 12-15 copies of production databases The average time to provision or refresh a multi- TB database is 8hrs or more

Native application integration means no translation needed for data re-use on-premises or in the cloud

Make unlimited virtual copies for development, test, patch, upgrade Orchestration and automation of data lifecycle, directly or via DevOps, ITSM, or Analytics toolchain

How much time does it take?

The average time to provision or refresh a multi- TB Oracle database is 8hrs

• r more

#3: Copy Time

How many copies do you make? How much time does it take?

Development and/or analytics intensive enterprises will make at least 12-15 copies of production databases The average time to provision or refresh a multi- TB database is 8hrs or more

Instant mount can be performed from block or object,

• n-prem or in the cloud, without a performance

penalty, by any user

90%+ faster access to data copies via the best protocol (NFS/dNFS/iSCSI) Reduction / elimination of people-intensity of manual data operations via self-service

How complex is your Oracle environment?

Most environments contain many flavors of Oracle (EBS, ASM, RAC, Exadata)

#4: Complexity

How many copies do you make? How much time does it take?

Development and/or analytics intensive enterprises will make at least 12-15 copies of production databases The average time to provision or refresh a multi- TB database is 8hrs or more

Use a single pane of glass to manage database cloning & copies with Oracle-focused optimizations

Single platform to manage copies of any Oracle flavor Capture data in native format (ASM); ingest from multiple nodes (RAC)

Wrap-Up

Database Cloning Appliance Delivers

LOWER TCO SELF-SERVICE AUTOMATION / EFFICIENCY DRAMATIC DATA ACCESS TIMES HYBRID CLOUD MOBILITY / ECONOMICS

50%+

41TB Franchise Critical Application (FCA) Database Usage Time

36hrs 1.5hrs

BEFOR E AFTER

90%+

Customer Large Database DB Clone Time Large Finance Oracle 21 days National Pharmacy Oracle 10 days Car Rental Company Oracle 10 days

Case Studies – Productivity Increase

Averages 11 days

Before Actifio

DB Clone Time 20 minutes 25 minutes 20 minutes

After Actifio

Averages 18 minutes

Actifio Database Cloning Appliance Powered by Dell Technologies

• Fully integrated configurations with industry’s #1 servers
• Easy to deploy, operate, and manage with VxFlex Manager
• Allows customers to start small and grow, scaling capacity and

performance easily and non-disruptively

• Single-node scaling and storage capacity expansion provide a predictable,

“pay-as-you-grow” approach for future growth as needed

• Actifio software & UI pre-installed and completely integrated
• Integrated with Data Domain and ECS for full database lifecycle

management on seamless storage stack

Questions?

Appendix: DCA vs. Competition for Oracle

Architecture Comparision

Or Oracle

Storage

Competitor X

Incremental Blocks + Logs

Competitor X Architecture

Or Oracle

Storage

DCA

Incremental Forever Blocks + Logs iS iSCSI / NFS / dN dNFS

DCA

NFS

Data Provisioning to Oracle ASM Environments

Competitor X DCA

Oracle ASM

Storage

Competitor X

Physical Clone Oracle ASM Oracle File System Virtual Clone Oracle ASM

Storage

DCA

Incremental Forever Blocks + Logs

Oracle ASM

BENEFITS

Capture in Native ASM Format -> Virtual DB Clones to ASM -> High Quality, Faster TTM, Lower TCO

CHALLENGES

Too much time & storage -> Delayed releases and Higher TCO Finding defects late -> Delayed releases or Poor quality Virtual Clones

Oracle RAC Environments

Competitor X DCA

DCA Parallel Data Ingestion from multiple RAC Nodes Data Ingested

• ver NFS / dNFS

Competitor X

Data ingestion from a single RAC Node Data Ingested

• ver NFS

BENEFITS

Parallel data ingestion > Faster refreshes & testing that reduces Time-to-market (TTM)

CHALLENGES

Slow refreshes -> Delayed testing and releases