Database as a Service on the Oracle Database Appliance Platform
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Speaker: Marc Fielding, Co-speaker: Maris Elsins. Oracle Database Appliance provides a robust, highly-available, cost-effective, and surprisingly scalable platform for database as a service environment. By leveraging Oracle Enterprise Manager's self-service features, databases can be provisioned on a self-service basis to a cluster of Oracle Database Appliance machines. Discover how multiple ODA devices can be managed together to provide both high availability and incremental, cost-effective scalability. Hear real-world lessons learned from successful database consolidation implementations.
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Database as a Service on the Oracle Database Appliance Platform
- 1. Database as a Service on the Oracle Database Appliance Platform MARC FIELDING MARIS ELSINS
- 2. Marc Fielding • Principal consultant with Pythian’s © 2014 Pythian Confidential 2 Advanced Technology Consulting Group • 13+ years Oracle production systems experience starting with Oracle 7 • Expertise in the entire enterprise application stack • Blogger and conference presenter www.pythian.com/news/author/ fielding • Occasionally on twitter: @mfild
- 3. Maris Elsins Lead Database Consultant at Pythian Located in Riga, Latvia DBA since 2005 Frequent speaker at conferences @MarisElsins elsins@pythian.com © 2014 Pythian Confidential 3 http://bit.ly/getMOSPatch
- 4. WHO IS PYTHIAN? • 200+ leading brands trust us to keep their systems fast, up & secure • Utterly elite DBA & SysAdmin workforce, 9 Oracle ACEs, 2 ACE directors, 5 Microsoft MVPs, 1 Cloudera Champion of Big Data • Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Netezza, Cassandra, Hadoop and MongoDB plus UNIX SysAdmin and Apps DBA • Big Data Services counter includes architects, R&D, data science and operations capabilities in one easy to buy vehicle • Industry leading DevOps implementation practice transforms customer dev and ops strategies to compete with velocity • Zero lock-in, utility billing model, easily blended into existing teams 38% Pythian has grown an average of 38% every year for the past five years 345 Pythian employs more than 345 leading minds in 26 countries worldwide. 1997 Pythian was founded in 1997 by Paul Vallee
- 7. Identifying top IT performers • Company Survey • 14 000 companies surveyed • 110 countries • Completed 2014 • 40% running 500+ servers • Source: Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Jez Humble, Nigel Kersten, and Gene Kim, Velocity conference, Santa Clara, June 26, 2014
- 8. Top IT performers… • Deploy changes 30x more often • Have 8000x faster change deployments • Experience half the deployment failure rate • Recover from failures 12x faster • But also – Twice as likely to exceed profitability, market share, productivity goals – 50% higher market capitalization growth
- 9. Source: John Jenkins, Amazon.com, Velocity conference 2011
- 10. What we need • Fast, frequent environment builds • Similar to production • Without sacrificing – Availability – Reliability – Security – Manageability
- 11. Tools Available
- 16. Why ODA is interesting? • Oracle Engineered systems • Single point of support • No single point of failure • Built for Oracle RAC • Relatively low cost – 60K USD list price for an ODA – 40K USD list price for storage expansion – Provides capacity-on-demand Licensing • Scalable by purchasing multiple units
- 17. Is ODA suitable for DBaaS? Photo by Darren Rogers (Daz) on Flickr Photo by Lee Morley (spookman01) on Flickr
- 18. Is DBaaS possible on ODA? – Hardware ODA V1 ODA X3-2 and X4-2 ODA ODA X3-2 ODA X4-2 CPU cores 2 x 12 cores 3.06 GHz 2 x 16 cores 2.9 GHz 2 x 24 cores 2.7 GHz RAM 2 x 96 GB 2 x 256 GB 2 x 256 GB Shared Storage HDD (raw) 12 TB 4.8G TB* 18 TB (36TB) 7.2G TB* 18 TB (36TB) 7.2G TB* Shared Storage SSD (raw) 292 GB 800 GB (1.6 TB) 800 GB (1.6 TB) ODA provides the HW suitable * Max Useable in +DATA for a small-medium private cloud platform
- 19. Is DBaaS possible on ODA? – Software • Oracle Appliance Kit (OAK) 12.1.2.1.0 (Nov 2014) – Grid Infrastructure 12.1.0.2 – Database EE 12.1.0.2 – EE options: RAC, Multitenant, In-Memory, ... – ACFS and Storage snapshots – Oracle Linux 5.10 and Oracle VM 3.2.8 ODA provides the technology backbone required for implementation of DBaaS
- 20. Is DBaaS possible on ODA? – Tools • “oakcli” – Oracle Appliance Kit Command Line Interface – Deploy software to ODA – Patch all components of ODA – Manage ODA configuration – Collect diagnostics information – Create DBs – Clone DBs (non-CDBs only) – *Manage CPU pools – *Create and (snap-)Clone VMs – *Manage vdisks and vlans “oakcli” has been developed to provide “as a Service” management functionality
- 21. Is ODA suitable for DBaaS? Hardware Software Tools ? Is ODA an “out of the box” private could platform for DBaaS Photo by yourcottoncandyhammer (dracena) on Flickr
- 22. My wishes DBaaS on ODA • Scope: Bare Metal or Virtualized platform • Choice of DB version: 12c or 11g • Choice of DB type: non-CDB or CDB • Fast / snapshot based provisioning of: – A new DB (or a PDB) – A clone from existing DB (or a PDB) • Production • Development gold image • Using the rich features of EM 12c + Cloud Management Pack – The self-service – The service catalog – Monitoring – Chargeback (optional)
- 23. Challenges
- 24. Challenge #0 OAK 12.1.2 is a “big jump” since OAK 2.10 Release date: November 2014 MOS: Doc Id 888888.1
- 25. Challenge #1: The EM • EM 12c is not ODA-aware – ODA is just a cluster of 2 servers to EM 12c – no EM 12c plugin for ODA (yet) – EM 12c can’t make calls to “oakcli” – EM 12c does not provide snap-clone feature for PDBs on ACFS (even with Cloud MP) – Rumors from #DOAG 2014! • How do we implement self-service functionality? • Can we find an alternative to EM 12c?
- 26. Challenge #2: Interaction with “oakcli” • “oakcli” must be executed as root • Passwords need to be typed in • No Non-interactive mode • Can we “hack” it to automate the DB provisioning?
- 27. Challenge #3: Customizations • We can “hack” it! But, we don’t want to “hack” it! • Customization is a configuration that’s not expected by “oakcli” • Unclear boundaries between customizations and supported configurations when manual changes are done (non-”oakcli”) are done. I.e. – Create database manually (files layout) – Create additional ACFS snapshots – Change the DB file layout • Possible impact? – patching and upgrades – stability • Any “customization” needs to be thoroughly tested before allowing into production (test upgrading too) • Can affect the supportability
- 28. Challenges #4: DB provisioning with “oakcli” • ODA provisions new databases using “oakcli” • Very limited configurability, i.e. – Non-CDB or CDB 11.2.0.2+ and 12.1.0.2 – Choice of size (memory-wise) – Storage quota • All non-CDBs are stored in common ACFS volumes – Smart use of the “empty snapshot” to segregate DBs • Each CDB is stored it’s own 3 ACFS volumes • All CDB data files are in a single ACFS volume – All PDBs are in the same bucket – Snap-cloning a PDB manually, will take a snapshot of the whole ACFS volume, which is not efficient. – You can create additional ACFS volume for each PDB to avoid unnecessary snapshots of CDB$ROOT
- 29. Challenges #5: “oakcli” snap-clones • Only for DB 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 • Not supported for Physical standby (yet) • Could be used to snap-clone PROD to DEV on another ODA • Non-CDBs – Done by “oakcli” – Clever use of ACFS snapshots • CDBs – No “oakcli” support, but SQLPlus can be used – Inefficient ACFS layout
- 30. So we can’t use ODA for DBaaS? Photo by zeitfaenger.at (kwarz) on Flickr
- 31. What we can do on ODA NOW! • Schema as a Service • Limited self service possibilities with non-CDBs – Provisioning features provided by “oakcli” – Administrators need to be involved • ODA is not ready for DBaaS with PDBs – Limited support built in “oakcli” – Database 12c features compensates for these limitations – Adjust storage layout to support snap-clones for PDBs better – One CDB per ODA (if possible) to avoid restarts for memory re-configuration • Self-Service – EM 12c - not yet – Custom built? – Too difficult, too intrusive – Multitenant Self-Service Provisioning (MSSP)
- 32. Using MSSP with ODA • “Multitenant Self-Service Provisioning” • Currently in beta test • Run on Apex inside CDB$ROOT • Install into a new CDB • Provides self-service interface for creating, cloning, plugging and unplugging PDBs • Supports snapshot cloning! • Supports user quotas! • No DB management and monitoring L
- 33. MSSP: Creating a PDB
- 34. MSSP: Creating a PDB
- 35. MSSP: Creating a PDB
- 36. MSSP: Creating a PDB
- 37. MSSP: Creating a PDB
- 38. MSSP: Cloning a PDB
- 39. MSSP: Cloning a PDB
- 40. MSSP: Cloning a PDB
- 41. Extending to multiple ODAs • Benefits – Standardized platform – Avoiding “surprises” during configuration, patching and upgrades – Predictable performance and accurate estimates • Single database is limited to running on 1 ODA – Use Data Guard or other replication solutions to extend or migrate between ODAs – Use NFS to facilitate inter-ODA provisioning • Self-service challenge – Managing multiple ODAs from the same tool – One MSSP instance needed per ODA • Some manual tasks are expected • Horizontal scaling is not possible – buy an Exadata!
- 42. A possible use case (1) 1. PROD runs on 12c Multitenant 2. Automated snap-clone create pluggable database PRODSNAP from PROD snapshot copy; 3. PRODSNAP is read-only 4. Automated PDB cloning over DB link create pluggable database DEVGOLD from PRODSNAP@PROD_ODA_PS; 5. Prepare the DEV Gold image – Purging and cleanup – Data masking – Open it as read only – Remove PRODSNAP 6. Users can clone their environments from the DEV Gold using MSSP. Frequent refreshing of DEVGOLD will exhaust space quickly. Use dedicated volume for each clone.
- 43. A possible use case (2) 1. PROD runs on 12c Singletenant or multitenant!!! 2. DG redo apply to the physical standby 3. The standby is continuously updated 4. Storage snapshot – Temporarily stop redo apply – Sharing the ACFS volume between 2 DBs – Possible with manual ACFS snapshot 5. Create the DEVGOLD – DBMS_PDB.RECOVER – Plugin the PDB with nocopy – Purging and cleanup – Data masking – Open it as read only 6. Users can clone their environments from the DEVGOLD – Does it work “create pluggable … snapshot copy”? – Works with manual snapshots Frequent refreshing of DEVGOLD is possible!
- 44. Recommendations and lessons learned • Start small • Set expectations for the service levels • Review tools included with the platform • Plan the Storage carefully – Multiple DB vs ACFS storage snapshots – With storage cloning, high-volume data changes are expensive • Controls and resource management are important • Many out-of-the box tools are inflexible
- 45. Conclusions about DBaaS on ODA • Sufficient SW and HW • The tools are not ready yet • Limited DBaaS capabilities at the moment – “oakcli” for non-CDB – “Create pluggable database .. snapshot copy” SQL for PDBs – No ready built Self-service • Oracle is working on improvements – EM 12c Plugin for ODA – Support for snap-clones from Physical Standby – Frequent OAK releases = new features • Flexible VM provisioning on the virtualized platform gives hope for more flexibility around DBs in future.
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