【EMC Proven Solutions Introduction】 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Oracle 11g Enabled by EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K, EMC RecoverPoint, and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Business case

Data protection and disaster recovery are critical to all enterprises and are among the most important aspects of administration in Oracle database environments.  EMC RecoverpPoint is proven technology for high-availability Oracle environments, providing local and remote replication with no impact in asynchronous environments and very limited application degradation in synchronous environments:

• RecoverPoint’s journaled replication architecture enables recovery to any point in time, which reduces the recovery point objectives (RPOs) for Oracle data.
• RecoverPoint maintains transaction-consistent images at the recovery site, which reduces the recovery time objectives (RTOs)

The integrated RecoverPoint splitter for VMAX 10K simplifies database replication and supports operational and disaster recovery of virtualized environments.  VMware vCenter SRM works with RecoverPoint to coordinate and automate the recovery process, and enables administrators to test their disaster recovery plans without impacting the production environment or ongoing replication.

Please refer to the white paper in Everything Oracle at EMC for more details:

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-11060

Solution overview

This solution focus on disaster recovery between heterogeneous arrays – a Symmetrix VMAX 10K and an EMC VNX5700 – enabled by RecoverPoint CRR and the RecovePoint splitter.  Local PIT database recovery using RecoverPoint CDP is also documented.

The solution demonstrates the data protection and disaster recovery capabilities of these technologies in the context of a virtualized Oracle Database 11g OLTP environment.

The virtualized platform for the solution is enabled by VMware vSphere and SRM.  Integration of RecoverPoint CRR and SRM enables automated failover of the Oracle database from the production site to the recovery site and ensures that data replicated to the recovery site is available to the recover site servers.

Key results

The solution offers the following key benefits:

• Simplified replication of Oracle OLTP database environments between heterogenous arrays by using the integrated RecoverPoint in conjunction with Symmetrix VMAX 10K and EMC VNX arrays
• Rapid recovery from unplanned disasters by using RecoverPoint in conjunction with Symmetrix VMAX 10K and EMC VNX arrays
• Automated failover and failback for planned and unplanned disasters, enalbeed by integration of RecoverPoint and VMware vCenter SRM
• Non disruptive disaster recovery rehearsal using RecoverPoint and VMware vCenter SRM
• Point-in-time database recovery from bookmarked RecoverPoint images