Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle

Safeguard the availability of mission-critical Oracle

workloads with a purpose-built solution that reduces
costs and increases productivity

Table of Contents
Optimize Oracle for mixed workloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Solve Oracle Database challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Are you facing any of these challenges?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Technical specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Benchmarked densities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Why Dell EMC?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Services and financing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Dell EMC Professional Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Dell EMC Financial Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Optimize Oracle today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Optimize Oracle for mixed workloads

Oracle® databases play a critical role in today’s enterprises, handling massive amounts of
data and transactions that produce revenue and drive business insights. In recent years,
virtualization has enabled consolidation of database workloads, simplifying management
and giving database administrators (DBAs) the flexibility to mix online analytics processing
(OLAP), online transaction processing (OLTP) and testing and development (test/dev)
workloads on the same infrastructure.

While virtualization is a proven strategy for consolidating databases, it can present unique
challenges. Resource contention and lost connections can put critical database application
performance and availability at risk. And hardware that isn’t optimized for virtualized
Oracle environments can lead to costly server and storage sprawl. Finally, managing Oracle
databases is complex, often consuming too much of a DBA’s time.

Solve Oracle Database challenges

The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle was designed to answer these challenges. This
purpose-built solution can support production OLTP and OLAP applications and test/dev
environments at the same time without sacrificing performance or storage space. With
these Oracle databases and other applications existing together and functioning optimally,
you gain a host of benefits, including:
• Enhanced six-nines availability, with sub-millisecond response times,
• Efficient running of multiple applications in the same rack while saving up to 20% on
licensing costs and up to 55%1 versus Oracle Exadata, and
• Breakthrough simplicity for deployment, management and support.

Safeguard availability Safeguard availability

The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle supports both production OLAP and OLTP along
with test/dev environments in a single virtualized environment. The high availability (HA)
architecture and design built at every component level of the solution eliminates single point
Increase efficiency
of failure and provides flexibility for planned maintenance downtime. So, when application
owners and admins fix bugs, optimize an existing workload and test patches or updates,
applications continue to access critical data at the speed of business. Dell EMC VMAX All
Simplify the environment Flash is an industry leader in high availability, has six-nines availability built into each array,
and has options for both local and remote data protection. Dell EMC VMAX uses advanced
fault isolation, robust data integrity, and non-disruptive upgrades and migrations to keep
Oracle databases online and available as much as possible. In addition, Dell EMC PowerEdge
servers help preserve uptime with proactive diagnostics and automated remediation.

Increase efficiency
The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle offers a lower entry point with a purchase price
up to 55% lower than the most advanced engineered solution for Oracle in the market,
according to an internal cost analysis.1 In addition, the massive over-provisioning typical of
databases creates tremendous consolidation potential. With server consolidation, not only
are hardware footprints reduced, but the costs for expensive database licenses are also
reduced. The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle has optimized Dell EMC VMAX All Flash
storage, combined with VMware® virtualization, enabling consolidation onto fewer servers
and storage arrays for lower capital expense (CapEx) and operational expense (OpEx).
In addition, the solution lowers training costs due to its simplicity and ease of use, while
replacing proprietary infrastructure reduces maintenance and support costs. Dell EMC
PowerEdge R940 Servers offer increased performance while using fewer cores, resulting
in up to $600K in Oracle licensing savings per server.2
1
 racle, “Oracle Engineered Systems
O
Price List,” September 2017.
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TechTrade Asia, “Dell EMC unveils
PowerEdge 14th generation
servers,” July 2017. 2
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Simplify the environment

First, the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle shortens the design cycle and configuration
time with a solution that’s tested and validated with OLAP, OLTP and test/dev running
in the same environment for easier planning and deployment. Once in service, Dell EMC
Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller — embedded in Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers — enables intelligent, automated control of servers, storage and
networking modules. Dell EMC VMAX adds to the simplicity with virtual provisioning that
allows DBAs to create new storage devices in seconds. VMAX devices are grouped into
storage groups and managed as a unit, including device masking to hosts, performance
monitoring, local and remote replications, compression, host I/O limits and more.

Are you facing any of these challenges?

“It’s critical for us to safeguard database availability.”
By definition, mission-critical data and applications need to be available at all times.
With the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle supporting multiple workloads within the
same infrastructure, it provides DBAs the flexibility to test updates, upgrades and
optimization of their databases in the test/dev environment first before applying or
causing any disruption to their production databases. In addition, the Dell EMC Ready
Bundle for Oracle incorporates the preplanning, testing, and best-practice guidelines
designed to maintain availability in your virtualized infrastructure. It also incorporates
VMAX’s six-nines availability (99.9999% uptime) and Dell EMC PowerEdge server
availability features that help further preserve uptime.

“The business requires better performance and availability, but budgets are flat
or shrinking.”
Growing data sets put pressure on IT to reduce costs while remaining responsive to
business and customer needs. The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle reduces costs
on multiple fronts. It combines a lower purchase price with the lower CapEx and OpEx
provided by server and storage consolidation. Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage uses data
reduction techniques and thin provisioning to optimize the use of storage resources, while
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers use extremely powerful, high core count Intel® Xeon® Scalable
Processors and dense memory footprint to consolidate multiple virtualized Oracle Real
Application Cluster (RAC) databases on to fewer servers, helping to lower Oracle licensing
costs up to 20%.

“Oracle DBAs spend too much time managing the environment.”

Oracle databases typically consume too much time for DBAs, storage teams and
application owners striving to optimize performance through complex database layout and
configuration. This issue is more pronounced in mixed workload environments with OLTP,
OLAP and test/dev. The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle is purpose-built to be easy to
purchase, deploy and manage. This pretested and validated solution provides the ability
to consolidate and manage everything with a few centralized tools like VMware vSphere®,
VMAX Unisphere, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and so on to simplify administration
of your entire infrastructure including multiple Oracle RAC databases.

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Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Oracle

Choose the configuration that’s right for you.

Technical specifications
Small: Up to 10 databases Medium: Up to 25
databases
Servers

2x PowerEdge R740 2x PowerEdge R940

Chassis 8 x 2.5” SAS/SATA HDDs for 2.5” chassis with up to
2 CPU configuration 8 hard drives
Processor 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6136 4 x Intel Xeon Gold 6150
12c 3.0GHz 18c 2.7GHz
Memory 384GB (12 x 32GB DR DDR4 1,152GB (24 x 32GB + 24 x
2,667MT/s RDIMMs) 16GB DR DDR4 2,667MT/s
RDIMMs)
Local disks 3 x 1.2TB 10K SAS 12Gbps 3 x 1.2TB 10K SAS 12Gbps
2.5” HDDs (inc. 1 hot spare) 2.5” HDDs (inc. 1 hot spare)
RAID controller PERC H730P/H740P PERC H740P
iDRAC iDRAC9 Enterprise iDRAC9 Enterprise
rNDC Broadcom 57412 DP 10Gb Broadcom 5720 QP 1Gb
SFP+ + 5720 DP 1Gb Base-T Base-T rNDC
rNDC
Add-on NICs Broadcom 57412 DP 10Gb 2 x Intel X710 DP 10Gb SFP+,
SFP+ PCIe Adapter, full full height
height
HBAs 2 x QLogic® QLE2692 DP 2 x Emulex LPe31002-M6-D
16Gbps FC HBAs DP 16Gbps FC HBAs
Power supply 2 x 1100W 2 x 1600W
Networking
LAN switch 2 x Dell EMC Networking 2 x Dell EMC Networking
S4048-ON 10GbE S4048-ON 10GbE
SAN switch 2 x Dell EMC Connectrix 2 x Dell EMC Connectrix
DS-6610B 24-ports 16Gbps DS-6510B 48-ports 16Gbps
Management switch 2 x Dell EMC Networking 2 x Dell EMC Networking
S3048-ON 1GbE S3048-ON 1GbE
Storage Dell EMC VMAX 250F All Flash
# of V-Bricks 1 1
Solid-state drives 16 x 960GB 48 x 960GB
(SSDs)
Mirrored cache 512GB 1TB
Software
Database Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Real Application Cluster (RAC)
Operating system (OS) VMware vSphere hypervisor (VMware ESXi™) 6.5
Guest OS Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 7.3 x64
Data protection Dell EMC AppSync 3.5

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Benchmarked densities
Configuration Small Medium
Total reads/writes 33,000 82,500
Total database size (GbE) 14,400 36,000
Density (IOPS/GbE per database) 2.3 2.3

Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Server (database compute): Enhance application

performance with the perfect balance of accelerator cards, storage and compute
resources in a 2U, 2-socket solution. The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Server is a
general-purpose workhorse optimized for workload acceleration.

Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Server (database compute): With 4 sockets and up to 6TB
of memory capacity, the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 Server provides scalable performance
in just 3U.

Dell EMC VMAX 250F All Flash Storage Array: Ease of use, scalability, high performance
and a robust set of data services make this an ideal choice for Oracle database
deployments. The foundation of each VMAX 250F All Flash Storage Array is the V-Brick,
which encompasses a single VMAX engine. Each VMAX 250F system can house either 1 or
2 V-Bricks and can provide up to a maximum of 1 PB effective flash capacity. The array can
use the latest 7.6TB and 15TB enterprise flash drives.

Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON Switch (management): 1000BASE-T top of rack

(TOR) switch provides forty-eight 1000BASE-T ports that support 10MbE/100MbE/1GbE
and four 10GbE SFP+ uplinks.

Dell EMC Networking S4048-ON 10/40GbE Switch (LAN public/private): High-density

TOR switch with forty-eight (SFP+) 10GbE ports and six 40GbE (QSFP+) uplinks.

Dell EMC Connectrix DS-6510B switch (SAN): The Connectrix DS-6510B is a 1U 48-port
Fibre Channel (FC) switch that can function at 2, 4, 8, 10 or 16Gbps depending upon the
installed optic. Ports on demand can scale from 24 to 36 or 48 ports.

Dell EMC Connectrix DS-6610B switch (SAN): Designed to support the SAN
requirements of small to midsize environments, the Connectrix DS-6610B is a 24-port
switch that offers high performance and economy. The 1U base chassis is prepopulated
with eight 16Gbps Fibre Channel SFP+ shortwave optics. The ports on demand kits allow
expansion in 8-port increments.

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Why Dell EMC?

The combination of Dell and EMC brings together two industry-leading companies with
strong reputations for value and innovation. Dell EMC holds leadership positions in some
of the biggest and largest-growth categories in the IT infrastructure business, and that
means you can confidently source your IT needs from one provider — Dell EMC.
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• #1 in data protection8
• #1 in software-defined storage9

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Optimize Oracle today

The ability to run OLAP, OLTP and test/dev in a single virtualized environment while
safeguarding availability, lowering costs and increasing productivity yields significant
competitive advantages. Contact your Dell EMC or authorized channel partner sales
representative to find out more today.
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