NetApp and Cisco Deliver Extreme Performance For Oracle Database

Guest post by Aaron Newcomb, Solutions Marketing Manager, NetApp

No one wants the 2:00 am distressed phone call disturbing a good night’s sleep. For IT Managers and Database Administrators that 2:00 am call is typically bad news regarding the systems they support. Users in another region are not able to access an application. Customers are not placing orders because the system is responding too slowly. Nightly reporting is taking too long and impacting performance during peak business hours. When your business critical applications running on Oracle Database are not performing at the speed of business that creates barriers to customer satisfaction and remaining competitive. NetApp wants to help break down those barriers and help our customers get a good night sleep instead of worrying about the performance of their Oracle Database.

NetApp today unveiled a solution designed to address the need for extreme performance for Oracle Databases with FlexPod Select for High Performance Oracle RAC. This integrated infrastructure solution offers a complete data center infrastructure including networking, servers, storage, and the management software you need to run your business 24×7 365 days a year. Since NetApp and Cisco validate the architecture you can deploy your Oracle Databases with confidence and in much less time than traditional approaches. Built with industry-leading NetApp EF-550 flash storage arrays and Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Servers this solution can deliver the highest levels of performance for the most demanding Oracle Database workloads on the planet.

The system will deliver more than one million IOPS of read performance for Oracle Database workloads at sub-millisecond latencies. This means faster response times for end users, improved database application performance, and more overhead to run additional workload or consolidate databases. Not only that, but this pre-validated and pre-tested solution is based on a balanced configuration so that the infrastructure components you need to run your business are working in harmony instead of competing for resources. The solution is built with redundancy in mind to eliminate risk and allow for flexibility in deployment options. The architecture scales linearly so that you can start with a smaller configuration and grow as your business needs change optimizing a return on investment. If something goes wrong the solution is backed by our collaborative support agreement so there is no finger pointing and only swift problem resolution.

So what would you do with one million IOPS? Build a new application that will respond to a competitive threat? Deliver faster results for your company? Increase the number of users and transactions your application can support without having to worry about missing critical service level agreements? If nothing else, imagine how great you will sleep knowing that your business is running with the performance needed for success.