Calculating Oracle Dataguard Network Bandwidth in SAP Environments PDF

Calculating Oracle Data Guard
Network Bandwidth in Sap

Environments
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All SAP Releases which run on Oracle Database 10g and above. For more information, visit the Landscape
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Summary
This is a step by step guide to calculate Oracle Dataguard bandwith requirement hourly.
Author: Ufuk Yavuz
Company: IBM Global Services Turkiye.
Created on: 2 December 2010
Author Bio
Ufuk YAVUZ is a SAP Consultant with IBM Global Services Turkiye. He has more than 8 years
experince in SAP Basis , Database and Operating Systems as an administrator and consultant.
SAP COMMUNITY NETWORK SDN - sdn.sap.com | BPX - bpx.sap.com | BOC - boc.sap.com | UAC - uac.sap.com
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Calculating Oracle Data Guard Network Bandwidth in Sap Environments
Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3
Bandwidth Calculation Formula .......................................................................................................................... 3
Getting Redo Generate Per Sec. (RGPS) .......................................................................................................... 3
Recording Redo Generate Per Second Value Hourly ........................................................................................ 3
Analyzing RGPS with Excel ................................................................................................................................ 4
Related Content .................................................................................................................................................. 6
Copyright............................................................................................................................................................. 7
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Introduction
Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for enterprise data. It aids
in establishing and maintaining secondary "standby databases" as alternative/supplementary repositories to
production "primary databases".
Since it is based on log shipment between primary and secondary databases over network (generally WAN
for disaster recovery solutions) one of the main challenges is the calculation of required bandwidth.
In this whitepaper a bandwidth calculation method will be explained.
Bandwidth Calculation Formula

The formula calculates the required bandwidth with redo generate per second value.
Required bandwidth = ((Redo generate bytes per sec. / 0.7) * 8) / 1,000,000 = bandwidth in Mbps
So we will aim to obtain that value.
Getting Redo Generate Per Sec. (RGPS)

We will use gv$sysmetric_history view to get redo generate per second value. This view hold statistical
data related to 135 different metric. Redo generate per second is one of them. But it only keeps data of last
1 hour with which is taken every minute with 74 samples. ( 60 sample for every minute , 14 sample for every
15 second of last 3 minutes)
We will get average and maximum these 74 samples to be able to calculate hourly maximum and average
bandwidth.
The metric_id of Redo generate per second is 2016.
Generally systems activity for all day long or a week must be observed to get an clear idea about required
bandwidth. So to keep the historical data of this metric we will use an operating system level script.
Recording Redo Generate Per Second Value Hourly

Here is an example script prepared in AIX environment. SID of database is TST .
MAX_SQL='set heading off; \n select max(value) from gv$sysmetric_history where METRIC_ID=2016; \n exit \n'
AVG_SQL='set heading off; \n select avg(value) from gv$sysmetric_history where METRIC_ID=2016; \n exit \n'
MAX=`echo $MAX_SQL | sqlplus -S / as sysdba`
AVG=`echo $AVG_SQL | sqlplus -S / as sysdba`
HOUR=`date +%k`
echo `date +%d%m%y` $HOUR $MAX $AVG >> /test/log/bandwidth.log
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We will run this script hourly via crontab so that it records maximum an average Redo Generate per Sec
(RGPS) values in bandwidth log.
You can use crontab e command to create crontab entry. An example crontab entry:
01 * * * * /oracle/TST/sapreorg/bandwidth.sh
At the end of day bandwidth.log file will look like this:
Analyzing RGPS with Excel

We can use an excel sheet to turn this values into bandwidth with our formula mentioned before. We pasted
the values Hour,MAX ,AVG to column A,B,C respectively. Column D and E has the formula and calculates
bandwidth with the values in B and C.
=((B2/0,7)*8)/1000000
=((C2/0,7)*8)/1000000
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Max. Bandwidth values must be provided for maximum protection mode of Dataguard which keeps standby
synchron with primary. So this database needs 56,5 Mbps to run in this modes.
Average values are acceptable and must be provided for maximum availability and performance modes. At
hour 17 system has a peak average value for bandwidth 7 Mbps.
So finally we got an excel which we can find hourly bandwidth requirement. Further analyses can be done
based on RTO and RPO targets.
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Related Content
For more information, visit the Landscape Design and Architecture homepage
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Calculating Oracle Data Guard

Network Bandwidth in Sap

Bandwidth Calculation Formula

Getting Redo Generate Per Sec. (RGPS)

Recording Redo Generate Per Second Value Hourly

Analyzing RGPS with Excel

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