Book description
The start-to-finish guide to virtualizing business-critical Oracle Software and Databases on VMware vSphere
Virtualizing large-scale Oracle software and databases on vSphere can deliver powerful scalability, availability, and performance benefits. Recognizing this opportunity, thousands of organizations are moving to virtualize Oracle. However, reliable best practices have been difficult to find, and database and virtualization professionals often bring incompatible perspectives to the challenge.
Virtualizing Oracle® Databases on vSphere® is the first authoritative, comprehensive, and best-practice guide to running Oracle on VMware platforms. Reflecting a deep understanding of both Oracle and vSphere, this guide is supported by extensive in-the-field experience with the full spectrum of database applications and environments. Both a detailed reference and a practical cookbook, it combines theory and practice, and offers up-to-date insights for the entire lifecycle, supported by case studies.
Kannan Mani and Don Sullivan fully address architecture, performance, design, sizing, and high availability. Focusing on current versions of Oracle and vSphere, they highlight the differences between ESX/ESXi 4.x and 5.x wherever relevant. To deliver even more value, they provide extensive online resources, including easy-to-adapt scripts and expert how-to videos.
Coverage includes:
Understanding the DBA’s expanded role in virtualized environments, and the emergence of the vDBA, vRACDBA, and Cloud DBA
Identifying your best opportunities to drive value from virtualizing Oracle
Anticipating challenges associated with virtualizing Oracle-based Business Critical Applications on vSphere
Using VMware to overcome ongoing database deployment and management problems
Protecting your virtualized database environment with vSphere’s high-availability capabilities
Designing databases to achieve scalability on demand, maximize availability, consolidate servers, and improve compliance
Implementing best practices for memory, storage, and database layout
Demystifying the impact of virtualization on Oracle support and licensing
Using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to accelerate disaster recovery by seamlessly integrating VM and storage failover
Streamlining provisioning and taking advantage of opportunities to automate
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Oracle Databases on Virtual Infrastructure
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Chapter 2. Virtualization and High-Performance Oracle Workloads
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Virtualized Oracle Environments on vSphere Key Benefits
- Consolidating Platforms to Reduce Datacenter Costs
- Enhancing Database Availability and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
- Provisioning Rapid and New Database Server Environments
- Reducing Planned Downtime with Migration of Live Oracle Database Servers
- Guaranteeing Resources in a Shared Environment
- Achieving IT Compliance
- Zeroing In on Key Trigger Events
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Solving Oracle Database Deployment and Management Issues Using VMware
- Implementing Dynamic Oracle Datacenter Resource Management
- Minimizing Server Sprawl
- Meeting SLA Demands for Database Performance, Availability, and Disaster Recovery
- Supporting a Dynamic Business Environment
- Minimizing License Costs
- Maximizing Oracle Workloads and Sizing
- Option 1: Sizing the Oracle DB Workload
- Option 2: Sizing the Oracle DB Application Vendor Recommendations
- Option 3: Sizing Oracle DB Server Vendor Guidelines
- Testing the Limits: Performance Studies and Stress Tests
- Summary
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Virtualized Oracle Environments on vSphere Key Benefits
- Chapter 3. Oracle Databases and Applications in Virtual Infrastructure: Architectural Concepts
- Chapter 4. Oracle on vSphere Best Practices
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Chapter 5. Oracle Database High Availability: Planned and Unplanned Downtime
- Protecting the Virtualized Environment with vSphere High Availability
- Protecting Applications with vSphere and Symantec AppHA
- Understanding Oracle RAC in Virtual Machines
- Deploying Oracle RAC on vSphere
- Protecting Oracle Databases Against Downtime
- Transitioning RAC Nodes Between Hosts Using VMware vMotion
- To RAC or Not to RAC
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Performance Workload and Functional Stress Test Studies
- Chapter 7. Support and Licensing
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Chapter 8. Performance Management and Monitoring
- Performance Management Terminology
- The Role of the DBA in Performance Management
- Processing Power: CPU or vCPU
- Memory
- Networking
- Storage Configuration and Utilization
- Understanding SCSI Queue Depth on an ESX/ESXi Host and Virtual Machine
- Comparing Storage Types
- Understanding the Oracle Enterprise Manager vCOPS Adapter
- Summary
- Chapter 9. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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Chapter 10. Backup and Recovery
- Backup and Recovery Principles
- Oracle Database Backup Methods
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NetApp Backup and Restore Solution Overview
- Integrating NetApp with vSphere
- Working with NetApp Snapshot
- Backing Up a Virtualized Oracle Database with NetApp Snapshot
- Tools Available for Backups of Oracle Using NetApp
- Step-by-Step Solution for Backing Up a Virtualized Oracle Database with NetApp Storage and NFS Datastores
- Restoring a Database Using NetApp Snapshot
- Backup and Restore Use Case with Snap Creator
- EMC Avamar Backup and Restore Solution Overview
- Comparing VMFS and RDM
- Summary
- Chapter 11. Provisioning and Automation
- Chapter 12. Case Studies
- Index
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Virtualizing Oracle® Databases on vSphere®
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): VMware Press
- ISBN: 9780133570229
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