GE Appliances & Lighting: Making DR Invisible to Oracle on VMware Workloads

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1 GE Appliances & Lighting: Making DR Invisible to Oracle on VMware Workloads Dave Welch CTO, Chief Evangelist September 29, 2014 Hosted by Cisco

2 House of Brick Founded in 1998 Grandfather solution provider of Oracle VBCA (Q1 2006) Key Services VBCA Replatforming, Data Migration Managed Services

3 All 2013 content now on-line with free VMworld account

4 GE Appliances & Lighting - Louisville, KY Oldest Dow component 100+ year history $8B division of GE Global footprint More than 27,000 employees in over 100 countries

5 GE: A History of Innovation First commercial UNIVAC: Appliance Park

6 GE s IT History Custom-developed apps Wide ranging languages (Cobol, VB, Java, etc.) Complex hardware & OS stack (VAX, MVS, HP/UX, Solaris, Windows, AS/400) Limited DR

7 GE: Recent IT History DR-enabled apps drilled at the app level Limited formal SLAs VMware Infrastructure history: Tier 3 & 4 Passive/Active clusters: HP/UX and Solaris HA

GE: 2009 Data Center Refresh 128 cabinets, 18-24kw per rack 500-1000 vm s per rack Certified LEED Platinum

8 GE: 2009 Data Center Refresh 128 cabinets, 18-24kw per rack vm s per rack Certified LEED Platinum DC - U.S. Green Building Council Uptime Institute Tier % availability YouTube:

vsphere, 200+ nodes, Live July, 2012 GE Lighting Project

9 GE: Initiatives $1B investment in American manufacturing GE Appliances ERP+ : Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle RAC->1 inst, vsphere, 200+ nodes, Live July, 2012 GE Lighting Project Circuit : SAP Oracle RAC->1 inst, vsphere, 50+ node deployment, Live Q3 2014

10 GE: Generic ERP Infrastructure Cisco UCS NetApp, Hitachi Atomic workloads DynamicOps -> VCAC Heterogeneous hypervisor support Post-deployment automation vcenter Operations

11 GE s Goal: 100% DR Site Recovery Manager Cisco OTV Layer 2 mobility Volume based design Cash play: storage capacity, network bandwidth

12 Disaster Recovery Evolution Physical DR Dual drill IPs Oracle Data Guard Clipboards Marginal coverage Full regression test Low reliability Virtual DR Virtual shroud Array replication Dual drill IPs ~100% reliability On demand testing Full regression test? App reconfig Virtual DR / IP Mobility Cisco OTV Check for services up Virtual shroud Array replication ~100% reliability

GE SRM Switchover 1. Pre-synchronize Storage 2. Shutdown VMs at Protected Site 3.

Synchronize Storage 8. Suspend Non-critical VMs at Recovery Site 9.

13 GE SRM Switchover 1. Pre-synchronize Storage 2. Shutdown VMs at Protected Site 3. Resume VMs Suspended by Previous Recovery 4. Prompt: NAS Manual SHUTDOWN Alert 5. Restore hosts from standby 6. Prepare Protected Site VMs for Migration Alternate Production Facility 1,000 miles 7. Synchronize Storage 8. Suspend Non-critical VMs at Recovery Site 9. Change Recovery Site Storage to Writeable 10. Prompt: NAS Manual STARTUP Alert 11. Power On Priority 1 VMs 12. Power On Priority 2 VMs 13. Power On Priority 3 VMs 14. Power On Priority 4 VMs 15. Power On Priority 5 VMs 16. Prompt: Verify Application is working Production DC

14 GE SRM Switchover Video

15 GE: OTV vs. LISP OTV: resiliency option Application-agnostic = less configuration Tromboning threat LISP: redundancy option Per-application configuration

16 GE: Active/Active DR Components Authentication (AD, DNS) vsphere? CA SiteMinder? Web front-ends? SOA (Oracle ESB, BPEL)

17 Contact Dave Welch c:

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