Roger Lopez

As the adoption of OpenStack increases, the industry seeks to learn about OpenStack’s reliability and scalability for production environments. Common questions that typically arise are “How much hardware do I need?”, “Is my hardware working as intended?”, “What are the best practices for scaling out?” among others. The purpose of this reference architecture is to answer these questions by utilizing common benchmark workloads to simulate load upon a scaling OpenStack environment to determine… Show more

As the adoption of OpenStack increases, the industry seeks to learn about OpenStack’s reliability and scalability for production environments. Common questions that typically arise are “How much hardware do I need?”, “Is my hardware working as intended?”, “What are the best practices for scaling out?” among others. The purpose of this reference architecture is to answer these questions by utilizing common benchmark workloads to simulate load upon a scaling OpenStack environment to determine bottlenecks that may arise and how to overcome them. Specifically, this reference architecture shares sample results from Rally used to create boot-storms and validate max-guest per host of the compute servers, tuning around issues found during boot-storm testing, tuning networking MTU sizes, using the CBTOOL to synchronize benchmark results and performance differences when moving from ephemeral storage to cinder utilizing external Ceph servers. It is best suited for system, storage, and OpenStack administrators deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform 6 with the intent of scaling their private cloud environment. Show less

This was an hour presentation given at Oracle World 12.

Customers are looking for flexible datacenters to get away from tedious and time consuming deployment and maintenance tasks. Cloud has the power to package server, storage and software as a service. EM 12c Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution provides automating the lifecycle of a database and allowing users to request database services on demand through self-service portal. With this users can get instantaneous access to new… Show more

This was an hour presentation given at Oracle World 12.

Customers are looking for flexible datacenters to get away from tedious and time consuming deployment and maintenance tasks. Cloud has the power to package server, storage and software as a service. EM 12c Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution provides automating the lifecycle of a database and allowing users to request database services on demand through self-service portal. With this users can get instantaneous access to new database services. The key benefit of a database cloud is to enable faster deployment by moving away from admin driven provisioning to end user driven. This session showcases implementation of DBaaS which covers:

1.Building a database cloud

2.Define Chargeback policies

3.On demand consumption Show less

This one an hour presentation at Moscone West on Sunday 9/30/2012

Virtualization has played a critical role in providing customers a solution in consolidating servers, faster deployment, and providing energy efficient datacenters. These value adds can lead to quicker time-to-market solutions, reduced cost and enable automation of many routine tasks. With the introduction of OVM 3.x, Oracle delivers a solution to meet those exact needs. This session will discuss Oracle VM best practices… Show more

This one an hour presentation at Moscone West on Sunday 9/30/2012

Virtualization has played a critical role in providing customers a solution in consolidating servers, faster deployment, and providing energy efficient datacenters. These value adds can lead to quicker time-to-market solutions, reduced cost and enable automation of many routine tasks. With the introduction of OVM 3.x, Oracle delivers a solution to meet those exact needs. This session will discuss Oracle VM best practices, explores key feature sets found within Oracle VM's new and improved Oracle VM Manager, and explain how to deploy templates, specifically the OVM3 RAC templates. This session will interest architects and system administrators. Show less

This document applies to IT and database administrators who are deploying Oracle Database 11g R2 database software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x. The paper is written as a step-by-step guide on how to install, configure, and build an Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Server.

In order to optimize corporate profits and performance, businesses today use Business Intelligence (BI) tools and applications to collect information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, and present it to users to improve decision making. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (BIEE) offers a comprehensive suite of open standards-based BI products and provides the best foundation for building enterprise-wide BI solutions. This white paper describes Dell’s… Show more

In order to optimize corporate profits and performance, businesses today use Business Intelligence (BI) tools and applications to collect information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, and present it to users to improve decision making. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (BIEE) offers a comprehensive suite of open standards-based BI products and provides the best foundation for building enterprise-wide BI solutions. This white paper describes Dell’s recommended approach for enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle BI EE 11g on Dell storage systems and Dell servers running Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). By taking advantages of the virtualization technologies, the hardware infrastructure platform presented in this paper helps reduce cost through the utilization of Oracle VM’s capability to hard partition a physical server. The paper also provides an Oracle VM template with pre-installed and pre-configured software images to speed up the deployment process of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE 11g. Show less

The Dell™ Oracle Database Advisor Tool is an on-line web-based tool created to assist customers in sizing their Oracle databases. The tool is designed to simplify the effort of IT to estimate sizing with an interview set of questions used to capture a customer’s database requirements and output a solution that provides a complete summary of all the components required for their Oracle database solution. The summary provides a detailed description of each component with the intention of… Show more

The Dell™ Oracle Database Advisor Tool is an on-line web-based tool created to assist customers in sizing their Oracle databases. The tool is designed to simplify the effort of IT to estimate sizing with an interview set of questions used to capture a customer’s database requirements and output a solution that provides a complete summary of all the components required for their Oracle database solution. The summary provides a detailed description of each component with the intention of providing an appropriate Dell hardware infrastructure that includes servers, network components, storage arrays, software stack, management software, and database software edition. The Dell Oracle Advisor tool is available at www.dell.com/oracle. Show less

The adaptation of virtualization technology has risen tremendously and continues to grow due to the rapid change and growth rate of IT infrastructures. Oracle® VM enables customers to deploy applications with the ability to share server and storage resources to maximize utilization within the grid. Combining Oracle VM with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Storage array provides ease of use and the ability to evenly distribute workloads across each array within a server pool to achieve greater… Show more

The adaptation of virtualization technology has risen tremendously and continues to grow due to the rapid change and growth rate of IT infrastructures. Oracle® VM enables customers to deploy applications with the ability to share server and storage resources to maximize utilization within the grid. Combining Oracle VM with Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Storage array provides ease of use and the ability to evenly distribute workloads across each array within a server pool to achieve greater performance and flexibility. This paper will provide a Dell solution that shows best practices around Oracle VM with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI Storage array and present performance numbers to better quantify the delta between running within a virtualized environment and a non-virtualized environment. Show less

Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays can provide a cost-effective, high-performance foundation for Oracle® Database 11g. This article outlines a recommended architecture and best practices to help enterprises create a highly flexible, scalable, and reliable clustered or single-instance database environment.