VMware Cloud Flex Storage and Oracle workloads – Summary of use cases

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Sudhir Balasubramanian

Enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission critical Oracle applications to meet the demanding business SLA’s, all the way from on-premises to VMware Hybrid Clouds

  • Slow database Archivelog performance will considerably slow the database down resulting in breach of SLA’s.
  • Slow database Backups will result in database backup’s spilling outside the production backup window resulting in disruption of database operations and breach of SLA’s as well.
  • Non-production workloads e.g., Development, Test, QA, Staging, Functional, Pre-Production etc are equally important as the Production workloads, as they are key entities and instrumental to any Production workload success and adds to space demands with the ever-increasing database sizes.

The goal is to provide Comparable performance, Storage savings and meet the Business SLA’s by using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Archivelogs, Oracle Backups and Oracle Non-Production workloads.

Summary of blogs

The first blog Providing Performance and Storage savings using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Archivelogs  is an exercise to evaluate the feasibility and showcase the advantages of using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for business-critical Oracle workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS as a viable & comparable Storage option for Oracle Archivelog files destination.

The second blog Providing Storage savings and Comparable performance using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Backups is an exercise to evaluate VMware Cloud Flex Storage as a viable & comparable Storage option for Oracle backups destination.

The third blog Providing Storage savings and Comparable performance using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Non Production workloads is an exercise to evaluate VMware Cloud Flex Storage as a viable & comparable Storage option for Oracle non-production workloads.

This blog is not meant to be a performance benchmarking-oriented blog in any way.  Remember, any performance data is a result of the combination of hardware configuration, software configuration, test methodology, test tool, and workload profile used in the testing, so the performance improvement I got with my workload in my lab is in no way representative of any real production workload which means the performance improvements for real world workloads will be better.

VMware Cloud Flex Storage

VMware Cloud Flex Storage is a Storage-as-a-Service offering for VMware Cloud on AWS that provides the ability to provision and scale storage independently of their SDDC hosts.

VMware Cloud Flex Storage is fully VMware-managed and natively integrated, so you can cost-effectively supplement your capacity needs rather than purchasing additional SDDC hosts.

VMware Cloud Flex Storage provides disaggregated cloud storage for non-mission critical applications, such as file servers, analytics, and lower-tier databases. Disaggregated storage provides the performance of local storage with the flexibility of storage area networks.

More information on VMware Cloud Flex Storage can be found here and here.

Acknowledgements

This summary blog was authored by Sudhir Balasubramanian, Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Lead – VMware.

Conclusion

Enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission critical Oracle applications to meet the demanding business SLA’s, all the way from on-premises to VMware Hybrid Clouds

  • Slow database Archivelog performance will considerably slow the database down resulting in breach of SLA’s.
  • Slow database Backups will result in database backup’s spilling outside the production backup window resulting in disruption of database operations and breach of SLA’s as well.
  • Non-production workloads e.g., Development, Test, QA, Staging, Functional, Pre-Production etc are equally important as the Production workloads, as they are key entities and instrumental to any Production workload success and adds to space demands with the ever-increasing database sizes.

The goal is to provide Comparable performance, Storage savings and meet the Business SLA’s by using VMware Cloud Flex Storage for Oracle Archivelogs, Oracle Backups and Oracle Non-Production workloads.

All Oracle on VMware vSphere collaterals can be found in the url below.

Oracle on VMware Collateral – One Stop Shop
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2017/01/oracle-vmware-collateral-one-stop-shop.html

About Sudhir Balasubramanian

27 + years Oracle hands on experience - Principal Oracle DBA / Architect, Oracle RAC/Data Guard Expert, Experienced in EMC SAN Technologies Currently – VMware (Broadcom) [2012-] Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Practice Lead Principal Oracle DBA/Oracle Architect (1995 – 2011) [ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Sony Electronics, Newgen Results (Aspen) ,Teletech Corp, SAIC, Active Network, Sempra Energy Holdings] VMware VCA – Cloud ,VMware vBCA Specialist VMware vExpert & vExpert Application Modernization - https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/1038 Member of the Office of the Chief Technical Ambassador VMware (Alumni) Oracle ACE - https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=19297:3 Leading Author of “Virtualizing Oracle Business Critical Databases on VMware SDDC” Recognized Speaker@ Oracle Open World, IOUG, VMworld, VMware Partner Exchange, EMC World, EMC Oracle Summit and Webinars Industry recognized expert in Oracle Virtualization technologies Blogs http://vracdba.com/ | https://community.oracle.com/blogs/sudhirb https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/author/sudhirbalasubramanian/ Twitter : @vracdba [ https://twitter.com/vRacDba ] LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhirbalasubramanian/
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