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Contributed by Don Boxley Jr, co-founder and CEO, DH2i
The Year of Containers and Oracle Databases
Business Challenge
Many organizations using Oracle today are faced
with having to support and manage multiple Oracle deployments models. Most of
which were implemented as one-offs on a project by project basis without regard
to any meaningful standards. The result
of is an Oracle environment characterized by:
In 2017 a new class of stateful containers will emerge that
will solve these business challenges. With these new stateful containers users will
be able to implement Oracle Database Utilities with an optimal mix of
enterprise and standard edition based on a flexible heterogeneous - physical
server/virtual machine/Cloud - infrastructure.
These container-based utilities will provide a unified deployment
model with 100% support for all Oracle Database instances including
mission-critical instances. These new
containers will support new and existing Oracle Database instances without an
additional programming. These utilities will enable instances to be move freely
host-to-host or site-to-site with near-zero downtime to support instance high
availability and disaster recovery. These stateful container utilities will enable
all instances to meet performance and availability requirements, defined in
service-level agreements (SLAs) enforced through utility controlled
quality-of-service (QoS) policies. The
utility will enable the realization of substantial cost saving through
consolidation of infrastructure, increases in productivity and optimization of
software licensing and maintenance costs.
The utility will enhance performance by helping users to establish
optimum Database instance - to -server consolidation ratios.
Business Outcome
These new class of stateful containers will improve an IT
organization in four key areas with respect to Oracle:
Readiness
Single
operational model for
Oracle application management between on-premise and cloud for an optimized
physical - virtual infrastructure
Optimized
performance by
letting the Oracle Database instance dictate the best infrastructure choice
Shared Data to
consolidate storage for all Oracle Database instances into an easy to
manage single shared pool
Agility
Portability by moving Oracle Database instances
dynamically from P2P, P2V, V2P or V2V-anywhere in near-zero downtime
Reduce the cost of Oracle with no-risk instance
stacking maximizing server and license utilization
Tech refresh can happen anytime with a hot-add,
Oracle instance drag and drop workflow
Flexibility
No VM vendor
lock-in, use any
combination of VMware, Hyper-V and Xen
Smart Oracle
license management that
does not force the use of any edition or version of Oracle
Mix and match
servers from
different vendors, with different processor types, speeds and memory
configurations
Enterprise Ready
High Availability for four+-nines (99.99+) availability
for every Oracle Database instance
Guaranteed SLA's for performance & availability
that Intelligently ties Oracle Database instance QoS to service levels
Simple instance-level DR for reliable and
cost-effective site-level disaster protection
The introduction of stateful containers will fundamentally
change how users deploy not only Oracle but any stateful application
workload. Enabling IT to exploit
containers as a bimodal bridge to the future.
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About the Author
Don Boxley Jr is a DH2i co-founder and CEO. Prior to DH2i, Don held senior marketing roles at Hewlett-Packard where he was instrumental in sales and marketing strategies that resulted in significant revenue growth in the scale-out NAS business. Don spent more than 20 years in management positions for leading technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, CoCreate Software, Iomega, TapeWorks Data Storage Systems and Colorado Memory Systems. Don earned his MBA from the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University.
