Steps to Grid Adoption

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Steps to Successful Enterprise Grid Adoption

• Roger Scott
• Vice President, Technology Sales Consulting
• Oracle Corporation APAC

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Agenda

• Why Enterprise Needs Grid Computing?
• Oracle and Grid Computing
• Steps to Successful Grid Adoption Case Study
  MegaGrid Alliance
• Conclusion

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What Business Demands of IT

• Value for Money
• Good return on assets
• Cost effective to manage and run
• Quality of service matching business need
• Flexible and responsive to changing needs
  priorities
• Cope with fluctuating workloads
• Access to information when required
• Allow business processes to evolve and change
• Enabler for business
• Support rapid deployment of new products and
  services
• Remove barriers which prevent doing new things
• Allow existing things to be done better

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Todays IT Infrastructure

• Configured for peak loads
• Limited scalability
• Availability lt 99.x
• Fragmented security
• Built in redundancy

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The Move to Enterprise Grids

• Grid as solution to massively parallel problems
• Desktop Grids SETI_at_home
• Scientific Research Grids Globus Toolkit
• Grid Prototypes IBM Global Services

• Grid as evolution in infrastructure platform for
  data centers
• All Oracle-based applications including packaged
  applications
• Low-cost hardware platform
• clustered database, app servers storage,
• Entire IT management
• Incremental adoption of grid features

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Standardize, Consolidate, Automate

• Standardize technology
• Servers, storage, systems, database, middleware,
• Consolidate infrastructure
• Data centers, instances, information,
• Automate processes
• Operations, business flows, management

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Agenda

• Why Enterprise Needs Grid Computing?
• Oracle and Grid Computing
• Steps to Successful Grid Adoption Case Study
  MegaGrid Alliance
• Conclusion

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Oracle Grid Computing
App Servers
Database Servers
Grid Control
Networked Storage
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Grid ManagementEnterprise Manager 10g
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Unique Value Proposition
Business Demands
Oracle Grid Computing
Increased ROA, reduced redundancy Low cost
components with incremental scaling Proactive
self management High qualities of service
Value for money
Pooled shared resources Grow and shrink inline
with demand Dynamically allocated as needed Rapid
application deployment
Flexible and responsive
All data accessible on line Derive and deliver
the right information to the right people at the
right time New classes of application Capture and
retain knowledge
Business enabler
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Oracle 10g Grid Customers
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A real-time business like NZX needs instant
answers and Oracle Database 10g on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux delivers just that . As a
commercially innovative organisation, it is
crucial that we continue to identify the best
tools to meet our needs. A single source of data
is a significant component in helping us achieve
this, as well as meet internal and external
performance targets
New Zealand Exchange
Chris Corke, Chief Information Officer
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One of the driving reasons for us to use grid
computing is the manageability. We have a huge
number of applications, hundreds of servers and
managing them before 10g was a very complex
issue.
Deutsche Post IT Solutions
Director of Database Group
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Agenda

• Why Enterprise Needs Grid Computing?
• Oracle and Grid Computing
• Steps to Successful Grid Adoption Case Study
  MegaGrid Alliance
• Conclusion

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MegaGRID Alliance
Develop a standard approach to building and
deploying an Enterprise GRID infrastructure

• Answer Questions
• How do you design and deploy a GRID
  Infrastructure ?
• How do you monitor analyze and tune for
  performance ?
• How do you scale-out the infrastructure ?
• How do you manage the infrastructure ?

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Objectives

• Reducing Costs pre-defined and pre-tested
  configurations
• Improving Quality of Service end to end
  testing, validation and documentation of
  clustering
• Reducing Risk validated solutions and
  cooperative engineering minimise downtime
• Managing Growth GRID solutions around
  scalability and centralised management
• Accelerating Time to Value pre-tested,
  validated best practices simplify and accelerate
  deployment time

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Our Approach

• Standardise
• Cost effective Dell servers
• Intel Xeon Itanium 2 processors
• Tiered EMC Networked Storage
• Consolidate onto
• Oracle 10g Databases with Real Application
  Clusters and Automated Storage Management
• EMC Networked Storage
• Automate
• Operation management with GRID control and EMC
  Control Center and PowerPath Software

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Our Methodology

• Identify a real world enterprise workload
• Cramer 4 Enterprise Voice/Data provisioning
  software
• Web based application CPU and I/O intensive
• Establish a base-line on UNIX SMP Servers
• 550,000 transactions / hour
• Jointly design build the Grid Infrastructure
• Clustered database, servers and networked storage
• Measure performance, scalability and management
  SCALE-OUT
• Initially scaled up from 300Gb to 1.2 Terabyte
• Document best practices and quantify the
  advantages

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Core Components Phase One
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Enterprise GridLow-Cost Linear Scalability
Significant Cost AdvantageSMP vs Blade
Targeting 550K Transactionsby 11-Nodes Cluster
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Server and Storage Grids
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Cramer Application
Server GRID
Application Clusters (Mid-Tier)
Database Clusters - RAC
Storage GRID
ASM (Automatic Storage Management)
Virtualization Disk Groups
SAN
NAS
DMX 1000
NS600
SAN
CLARiiON CX
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Lessons Learnt Phase One

• Phase 1 Complete
• Scaled to 36 Node environment
• 24 (2Proc) Dell 1750 Intel Xeon
• 12 (4Proc) Dell 7250 Intel Itanium 2
• Out performed an SMP environment at a fraction of
  the cost
• Acknowledge considerations when designing a GRID
• Virtualisation of three layers essential
  services, database, storage
• Journey to Grid computing takes time, planning
  rely on our Best Practices to kick start
• Best Practices White Papers
• Practical Guidance for Deploying Large Clusters
  of GRID
• Performance Collection Analysis in Large
  Clusters
• Capacity Planning for large commodity clusters

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Phase Two

• Phase 2 Underway (Subject to Change)
• Scale-out to 72 Node environment
• 48 (2Proc) Dell 1750 Intel Xeon
• 24 (4Proc) Dell 7250 Intel Itanium 2
• Expand the number of workload types
• Introduce an Application Server layer
• Introduce 3rd party applications
• Develop additional tools
• Develop consulting engagement

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Agenda

• Why Enterprise Needs Grid Computing?
• Oracle and Grid Computing
• Steps to Successful Grid Adoption Case Study
  MegaGrid Alliance
• Conclusion

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2004 A Grid Year

• First Customer Ship Oracle 10g
• Database, Application Server, Enterprise Manager
• Established Enterprise Grid Alliance
• Consortium of leading vendors and customers
  re-defining technical strategy for Grid
• Initial working groups Component and Data
  Provisioning, Utility accounting, Grid Security
• World Record Performance on Linux Clusters
• Enterprise Grids in Progress
• Credit Suisse First Boston, Qualcomm, Dell,
  Chicago Stock Exchange, Tesltra, NZ Exchange, et
  al

Grid Adoption continues in 2005 and beyond!
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Start Building Your Grid with Oracle

• Grid on Oracle.com
• http//www.oracle.com/lang/cn/technologies/grid/in
  dex.html
• Visit us at Oracle Breakout Sessions in the
  afternoon
• Use Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters to Build
  Enterprise Grid
• Oracle Grid Control and Monitoring
• Case Study for Grid Computing
• Visit us at Oracle Exhibition Booth
• See how Oracle 10g RAC enhances scalability,
  reliability and manageability
• Get a Grid Computing CD for FREE!

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