When Oracle Databases Meet the Clouds, It Might Rain

Future: Cloudy or Clear?

Alex Gorbachev March 17, 2011 RAC SIG

Agenda

Cloud

Computing overview Licensing implications Oracle database in public clouds Oracle database in private clouds Hybrid deployments
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Alex Gorbachev
CTO,

The Pythian Group Blogger OakTable Network member Oracle ACE Director BattleAgainstAnyGuess.com President, Oracle RAC SIG

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Where are we?

Cloud

Computing overview Licensing implications Oracle database in public clouds Oracle database in private clouds Hybrid deployments
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Five Cloud Infrastructure Characteristics

1. On-demand self-service 2. Broad network access 3. Resource pooling 4. Rapid elasticity 5. Measured Service

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html

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Three Cloud Service Models

SaaS

-- Software as a Service

Resource is vendors application

PaaS

-- Platform as a Service

Computing platform - write and deploy code, store/retrieve data DaaS Database as a Service (Amazon RDS, SimpleDB)

IaaS

-- Infrastructure as a Service

Rent computing resources - storage, network, CPU capacity

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IaaS => PaaS => SaaS

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Four Deployment Models

Public

Cloud Cloud

Private

Pythian cloud

Community

Cloud

Googles Gov Cloud -- LA gone Google

Hybrid

or Mixed Cloud

private + public

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NIST Cloud Definition Framework

Hybrid Clouds Deployment Models Service Models Essential Characteristics Private Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) Community Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) On Demand Self-Service Broad Network Access Resource Pooling Massive Scale Common Characteristics Homogeneity Virtualization Low Cost Software Rapid Elasticity Measured Service Resilient Computing Geographic Distribution Service Orientation Advanced Security Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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Primary Business Drivers

Lower

IT costs CapEx to OpEx shift Agility: Faster provisioning, on-demand access Scalability Day to day is simplified (e.g. maintenance/upgrades, test to production, etc.) Reliability. SLA based availability Better visibility and accountability

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Key Challenges
Security Quality

of Service Migration

Exit plan/entry plan Do you convert to proprietary machines/are you locked in?

What

is the new management regime in the cloud?

provided by, augmented by outsourcing, in-house, cloud vendor?

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Cloud Security Pros & Cons

Challenges

Advantages

Trust vendors security model Inability to respond to audit findings Support for investigations Indirect accountability Proprietary implementations cant be examined Loss of physical control

Reduced internal exposure of the sensitive data Homogeneity makes security auditing/compliance simpler Clouds enable automated security management Redundancy / Disaster Recovery Specialized security team and tools out of the box

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Database Challenges in the Cloud

Database

licensing can be cloud unfriendly performance, service brown-outs

Consistent Auditing

and monitoring a constantly changing environment security auditing tools are very specialized and can be difficult to deploy on the cloud in a WAN users auditing (DBAs, SAs)

Database Working

Privileged Cloud

vendor has physical access to all your data

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Where are we?

Cloud

Computing overview Licensing implications Oracle database in public clouds Oracle database in private clouds Hybrid deployments
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Licensing Oracle Databases in the Public Cloud

Unlimited

Licensing Agreements (ULA) Specific Full Use (ASFU) based licensing

Cloud licenses not included in Certification ISV friendly Amazon EC2 only 1 v. core = 1 licensing core; 4 v. cores = 1 licensing socket

Application

Core/Socket

Named

User Plus (NUP) user (Oracle Apps/E-Business Suite)

www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing.pdf - 22-Sep-08
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Minimums apply

Application

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Virtualization and Oracle Licensing

Soft

partitioning partitioning
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/partitioning.pdf http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf

CANNOT be used to limit licensed cores Partition licensing applies Oracle VM IBM LPAR HP vPar & nPar Amazon EC2 and Amazon EC2 based on Oracle VM

Hard

Instance

Caging

CANNOT be used to limit licensed cores

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Where are we?

Cloud

Computing overview Licensing implications Oracle database in public clouds Oracle database in private clouds Hybrid deployments
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Amazon Web Services - Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS

EC2 is the only Oracle supported IaaS hosting to date OEL, Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager support in 2008 (OOW08) OOW10 announcement - full support for many applications

Based on Oracle VM E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Siebel CRM AMIs to be published

Available since Dec-2010 WebLogic Server OracleVM-based Linux E-Business Suite Peoplesoft JD Edwards

Same licensing rules apply as in 2008

www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing.pdf - 22-Sep-08

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AWS EC2 Security for Databases

Security

- SAS70 Type II Can host HIPPA compliant systems Industry strength encryptions standards (RSA, SSL, PGP) Multi-factor authentication supported Allow penetration testing AWS Security Center - http://aws.amazon.com/security/

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Utility-style Licensing?
Amazon

EC2 service model is utility style

per hour per unit of work per GB on S3 or EBS

Is

database licensing utility-style?

MySQL - GPLed community editions yes - $0 SQL Server on EC2 - yes $/hr included in SQL Server AMI Oracle Database on EC2.... oups!

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AWS EC2 Licensing example

EC2 only - no licensing
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AWS EC2 Licensing example

EC2 windows + SQL Server
1500

1125

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375

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Oracle Database Licensing?

Standard

Edition, for example

1 processor perpetual license = $17.5K (+ $3.85K / year support) 1 processor 1 year termed license = $3.5K (+ $3.85K / year support) 5 named users 1 year termed - $350 (+ $385 / year support)

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Oracle ISV License for SaaS Vendors

As

close as you get to the utility model... of the list price including support

3.5%

42% for 12 months - which is the same as 1 year termed + support

Available

for ISVs deploying new SaaS solution only Tech stack products - Database + Fusion Middleware Very easy entry point for an ISV

1 processor SE = $612.5 per mo (SE1 is half of that)

years deal

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What About Applications?

E-Business Siebel

Suite

CRM Peoplesoft
Application

user license - good fit for cloud hosting

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Oracle Enterprise Manager on EC2?

EM

infrastructure doesnt need to be licensed

Monitored targets - yes

Perfect

cloud hosting fit

Public facing or using Amazon VPN (VPC)

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Oracle RDS on Oracle Database 11g in Q2-2011

announced February 2010

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Virtual Core & EC2 Compute Units (ECU)

One EC2 Compute Unit

equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor

(ECU) provides the

GHz 2007

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Optimizing Instance Types for Licensing

Instance type Micro Instance Small Instance Large Instance Extra Large Instance High-Memory Extra Large High-Memory Double Extra Large High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large 2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core Nehalem High-CPU Medium High-CPU Extra Large Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large Virtual Cores 1 1 2 4 2 4 8 2 2 8 ECUs per Core 2 1 2 2 3.25 3.25 3.25 2.5 2.5 4.1875

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Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2?

Not supported and not working ... until few days ago Amazon announced enhancements to VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Public and private IP subnets available

still missing ability to manipulate VIPs and SCAN IPs

IPs for

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Where are we?

Cloud

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Whats the Ideal Platform for a Private Cloud?

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Private Cloud for Oracle Database: Virtualization?

Avoid

virtualization for production Oracle Database complicates licensing

Consolidate on Grid Infrastructure Static partitioning defeats the purpose of virtualization

Virtualization

Intense

database workloads dont scale well in virtual machines

IO intensive, many system calls, interrupts Memory intensive

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Virtualizing Production Databases: Guidelines

Use

Direct NFS - IO in user space & no system calls! Dont overcommit memory Disable balloon driver Dont use RAC Use modern Intel CPUs

less overhead on memory intensive apps less overhead of interrupts more efficient IO/network virtualization

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Oracle RAC Support on VMware

Oracle

permits customers running its products on VMware with limited support RAC wasnt supported at all until November 2010
Still

questionable what problems does Oracle RAC addresses with VMware

scalability? high availability? manageability?

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Are we there yet?

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Oracle Database Backup in The Cloud

Amazon

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Oracle Secure Backup (OSB) Cloud Module Zmanda Enterprise

OSB

Cloud Module is licensed per channel - $3.5K

Number simultaneous channels Backup speed is usually limited by your internet bandwidth and latency Encryptions and compression included without additional license Always think of restore time, not the backup

Solid

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plan for Disaster Recovery strategy

Need to be covered in # of channels and database licenses

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SecureFiles in the Cloud

Next

generation LOBs SecureFiles can be stored in S3 Storage location is transparent to the user programs

SQL and PL/SQL Fully ACID compliant

Much

slower then internal storage

Ideal online archival solution

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Done!

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