Unsolved
This post is more than 5 years old
2 Intern
•
633 Posts
1
1092
November 11th, 2013 11:00
XtremIO Launch - November 14
An all-flash array is a killer feature for Oracle, especially in the case of a workload that looks like this:
- Large amounts of small block, random I/O
- Read intensive workload
- I/O latency is a performance bottleneck
- I/O bandwidth is a performance bottleneck
- The database will fit into the capacity of an all-flash array (each XTremIO brick has a capacity of 7 TB usable)
It is impressive how many Oracle database workloads look like that. Pretty much any heavily-used production OLTP database (unless it is breathtakingly large) would benefit from XTremIO. Assuming sufficient I/O activity (and what production Oracle database have you seen recently that is not I/O stressed?), an all-flash array will definitely help performance.
Given the costs of running Oracle, any significant performance improvement will return a very nice ROI. An all-flash array is certainly no exception. For this reason, we fully expect for the XTremIO all-flash array to be a huge hit in the Oracle space.
Do you plan to implement XtremIO all-flash arrays for your Oracle production workloads? We anticipate that training for XtremeIO will be available early next year.
RRR
2 Intern
•
5.7K Posts
1
November 20th, 2013 03:00
Very interesting, but unfortunately we need more valid business cases to actually sell these. And with prices still like this? We're getting there....
KEHutchinson
2 Intern
•
633 Posts
0
November 20th, 2013 06:00
Good point. I'll see if I can round up some use cases to share here.
cincystorage
2 Intern
•
467 Posts
1
November 20th, 2013 18:00
My thought process is XtremeIO will likely be uses more in the virtual environments rather than the Oracle environments. I think you'll see something like an All Flash VNX be a better fit for an Oracle environment. Mostly due to the nature of Oracle not being especially dedupe friendly, so you likely will not gain much from the in-line dedupe..
That being said i'm excited to get my XtremeIO for my environment!
RRR
2 Intern
•
5.7K Posts
1
November 21st, 2013 02:00
You're getting one? Lucky you!
cincystorage
2 Intern
•
467 Posts
0
November 21st, 2013 19:00
Its in the budget for next year and working on a proof of concept now. We're doing a bake off against other arrays to see how it fairs.. We've got this idea that we want to move storage closer to the compute.. someone is suggesting we have out edge switches act more in two capacities.. One as traditional edge switches for the SAN and in addition as "mini-cores" for high performance requirements (where don't want to data to leave the rack, for example) with xtremeio connected to the mini-core with the hosts needing the performance...
RRR
2 Intern
•
5.7K Posts
0
November 22nd, 2013 01:00
That's a cool set up at your place! Nice to see environments like that actually exist