insideflash

Inside Flash
The new disruption-all flash arrays redefine Oracle database performance
Dave Vellante
Q1. Why would an Oracle DBA care about an all flash storage array?
sam_lucido
Performance more interestingly DBAs are very interested in capacity savings too: deduplication and compression. More databases on faster storage in my opinion.
Stuart Miniman
consistent performance is a critical component of db infrastructure http://wikibon.org/w...
Jason Kotsaftis
from our conversations with customers, performance tuning is a top task many DBAs spend a lot of time on, AFAs not only bring extremely low latency for performance, but remove a lot of the steps needed in tuning storage for Oracle databases
Leighton L. Nelson
Significant performance improvements resulting in better end user experience.
Kevin
DBAs have too much to think about as it is. It's nice to be able to *finally* be able to provision capacity. A device like XtremIO requires to concern for RAID, etc. Just provision capacity.
David Floyer
So he or she can focus on working to improve database design and application functionality, rather than trouble shooting storage problems
Kevin
DBAs cannot spend time identifying individual database hot spots and reacting ..each database has its hot spot. Consolidate any number of those and you must have an all flash array #insideflash
David Floyer
The performance problems that take the most time are usually storage performance problems - flash can eliminate those. The performance problems are more challenging are design problems.
Leighton L. Nelson
Tiered storage is too complex to manage. Just provision some LUNS and forgedaboudit.
Andy Fenselau
But "performance" is easy- consistent predictable performance requires the right architecture
Kevin
and of course not all of the All-Flash Arrays are created equal so please consider this paper http://www.emc.com/c...
David Floyer
Flash is not just about fast storage - it is an enabler for new functionality and better application design; the old DBA rules need to be rewritten for flash only environments.
Andy Fenselau
And with consistent performance and copy services, DBAs can consolidate entire Oracle lifecycle and related app landscapes
Andy Fenselau
That's the real value- the agility and consolidation for total Oracle workflows!
sam_lucido
DBAs understand flash is fast. Its a short discussion. More important to DBAs is deduplication and compression. DBAs are very interested in how these space savings features work with Oracle databases.
Kevin
a heavily consolidated environment will have too many hot spots to identify and react to (tier reaction) so tiering efficacy can be neutered quickly
David Floyer
The DBA can extend his job by developing space efficient snapshots procedures to create instant latest copy and publish them for developers, QA and testing
David Floyer
Developers, QA and testers use 40% of their time to enable the right data to be available for themselves. Providing and sharing data on flash avoids copy sprawl, reduces storage costs and improves overall development productivity and time to value.
EMC Oracle
XIO delivers database snapshots or clones in-memory w/dedupe allowing new Oracle instances to be created in min, without impacting prod.
Dave Vellante
Welcome to this discussion on #flash for oracle environments everyone - let's get started
John Furrier
awesome chat and very timely conversation