By combining all-flash storage with copy data management, you can provision timely, space-efficient, masked Oracle copies both easily and automatically.

1. 6 Ways to Solve Your Oracle Dev-Test
Problems Using All-Flash Storage and
Copy Data Management
Catalog. Automate. Transform.
Copy Data Across Your Enterprise and Cloud
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2. Agenda
• Current problems
• Six Ways Catalogic and All-Flash Storage Can Help
• Solution demo
• Customer case study
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Presenters
Peter Eicher
Catalogic Product Marketing Manager
Christian Burns
Catalogic Product Manager

3. What Are The Current Problems?
1. Too many copies of Oracle data
2. Oracle copy process is slow and manual
3. Oracle copies can takes days or weeks to deliver to users
4. Oracle copies aren’t refreshed often enough -- stale data
5. Oracle data content needs to be secure (fields masked or subset)
6. Current tools don’t integrate with enterprise all-flash storage
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6 Ways to Solve Your
Oracle Dev-Test
Problems Using
All-Flash Storage and
Copy Data Management

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1 Save a Ton on
Disk Space
Problem: Too many copies of Oracle data

6. The Current DB Copy Data Environment
Too many copies, delivered too late, left around too long
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Typical Production
Oracle Data Set
Analytics &
Reporting
2 to 4 Full Copies6 to 8 Full Copies
Development &
Operations
Backup
DR
Dev/Test
QA
Training
DevOps
Sandbox
Patch Management
Etc.
Copy Delivery:
1 to 4 Weeks
Stale data! Stale data!
And this is just one application
Copy statistics from IDC

7. All-Flash vs. Hard Disk Drives
• Because of performance constraints,
HDD systems require full clones, to move
data to other spindles.
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Hard Disk
LUN
Snapshot
Full Clone
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Reserved for
Recovery
Full Clone
Workload
Workload
• Flash does not have the same IOPS
limitation, so one copy does the work of
many HDD copies.
All-Flash
LUN
Snapshot
Full Clone
Workload
Workload

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All-flash storage dramatically reduces the
number of full Oracle copies you need.
Catalogic ECX provides Oracle copy
automation and orchestration,
as we shall see…
1 Save a Ton on Disk Space

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2 Automate the
Copy Process
Problem: Oracle copy process is slow and manual

10. Complete Oracle Copy Automation
Create Copies Track Copies Refresh Copies
Use Copies Transition Copies Delete Copies
Test Prod
Snapshot, Replicate, Clone Catalog Automated DR and Test/Dev
refresh
Map LUNs, Spin Up Systems Test to Production Clean Up
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11. Use Copies on Production or Alternate Tier
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• Run dev-test from
production array
Flash LUN Snapshot
Production All-Flash Array
ReplicationFlash LUN
Alternate All-Flash Array
Flash LUN
Production All-
Flash Array
Local or Remote
Snapshot
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
• Replicate to second array and run
dev-test away from production array
Catalogic ECX supports either operational model

12. Further Technical Details
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ECX uses built-in disk
array copy engines
(snapshots, replication, clones)
Leverages flash storage
data reduction
(compression, dedupe)
This is “in-place” copy data
management
NetApp: Snapshot, SnapVault, SnapMirror
FAS, All-Flash FAS, NPS, Cloud ONTAP, FlexPod
EMC Unity: Snapshots, Replication
Unity 300/F, 400/F, 500/F, 600/F, VSA, VNXe
IBM: FlashCopy, Global Mirror
Storwize, SVC, Flash V9000, VersaStack
No Oracle Agents
required
Run-time code-injection
Code is always the latest
Oracle Log
Management
Logs are captured
Provides point-in-time
data access, recovery

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Automated Oracle copy creation makes
dev-test infrastructure deployment fast,
easy, and reliable
Catalogic ECX provides scheduling,
policies, templates and works with
your all-flash storage
2 Automate the Copy Process

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3 No More Waiting
for Copies
Problem: Oracle copies can takes days or weeks to deliver to users

15. Oracle Data Delivered Where and When You Need It
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Push-button access to
Oracle copies
Map/Mount snapshots
in minutes
On Demand Self-Service
Empower users with
self-service portal
DBAs, Dev-Test, QA, etc.
Always under IT control
Automated and
Scheduled
Copies in place
automatically, every day
Data in place even
before work begins

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Eliminate idle time for dev-test teams
Catalogic ECX delivers Oracle
data copies where and when
they’re needed
3 No More Waiting for Copies

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4 Keep Your Data
Fresh
Problem: Oracle copies aren’t refreshed often enough -- stale data

18. Data Delivery: From Days to Minutes
• Instant all-flash snapshots
provisioned to Dev-Test
machines within minutes
• Data refreshed
automatically as required
• Fresh productiondata leads
to better results
– Fewer bugs
– Faster delivery times
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Dev-1
Dev-2
Dev-3
Prod
Data
Snapshot

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Improve dev-test quality with fresher
copies of production data
Catalogic ECX automates
everything
4 Keep Your Data Fresh

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5 Keep Your Data
Secure
Problem: Oracle data content needs to be secure

21. Integrated Data Masking
• Protect sensitive data with
integrated data masking
• Generate a masked copy
and deliver to multiple hosts
• Apply masking only to
specific copies (it’s not all-
or-none)
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Deliver secure copies to dev-test teams
Catalogic ECX integrates
with your existing data
masking operations
5 Keep Your Data Secure

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6 Use Your
Favorite Tools
Problem: Current tools don’t integrate with enterprise all-flash storage

24. Integrated with RMAN and DevOps Tools
• ECX works with Oracle RMAN and
popular DevOps tools
• ECX feeds copy information into
RMAN catalog
• Drive data recovery via RMAN
• ECX REST API allows all operations
to be driven via DevOps tools
– Infrastructure as Code
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RMAN

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Don’t stop using what you know and love
Catalogic ECX lets you use the
tools that drive your Oracle
Dev-Test with all-flash storage
6 Use Your Favorite Tools

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And now a
few more
cool things!
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Use the same copy process for data
protection and disaster recovery
Use the same copy process for other off-
host operations: reporting, analytics,
forensics, training, etc.
Copy to spinning-disk tier for lower I/O
workloads
Simple, controller-based licensing for ECX

28. Solution Demonstration
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29. Automated Test/Dev: Customer Example
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Customer Challenges
• Manually build VMs, configure storage, network etc.
• Manual monitoring, tracking of test copies
• IT labor-intensive
By the Numbers
No. of servers built/month: 10-15 VMs
Average build time/server: 4 hours
Time spent per month: 40-60 hours
Engineer time/year: 3 months
After Catalogic ECX
• Fully automated with self-service
• Automated monitoring and tracking
By the Numbers
Average build time/server: 2-3 minutes
Time spent per month: 30-45 minutes
Engineer time/year: 6-9 hours
99% Time Savings
Across the Board

30. More Information
• www.catalogicsoftware.com
– Recently updated, new Solutions
and Copy Data Management
sections
– Frequent blog updates
– 30 day trial software
– Rich media content in Resources
section
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New ESG lab
report
Revised data
sheet
Contact Me
peicher@catalogicsoftware.com

31. Thank you!
Q & A
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