Database Challenges Still Persist
Caused by Legacy Database Infrastructure
Legacy datacenter infrastructure – constructed with separate storage, compute and storage networking resources crates inherent complexity issues.
Now layer the inherent challenges of database deployment , management and troubleshooting on top of the infrastructure complexity and the situation quickly becomes untenable as the environment scales out. Finger pointing among teams for case resolution generate blown SLAs because infrastructure and Databases take too long to deploy and business .
Complex , expensive, slow, & vulnerable because infrastructure with a legacy architecture requires:
- Partnering with multiple vendors (servers, SAN, storage networking, virtualization, more)
- Multiple weeks or months to design, procure, deploy and provision infrastructure
- Difficult and time-consuming processes to increase capacity to meet business needs
- Multiple management consoles, staffed by specialist IT teams
- Challenging troubleshooting when diagnosing poor performance or failure
Nutanix Database Solution Can Solve the problem of Legacy Database Infrastructure
Now we have fast databases that are scalable and automated with deployments that include best practice provisioning, cost effective and secure. Its important that we connect the dots for our customers on how we improve infrastructure has benefits to their database environment and their line of Business
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud simplifies the design, construction and deployment of IT infrastructure. It converges all IT resources into a single scale-out solution that can run any application.
- A Nutanix-powered infrastructure can be deployed in just 60 minutes or less
- IT teams can start small, with typically just three servers (nodes) and scale capacity (storage and compute) without limit
- Scaling is 100% linear. Each node adds a proportionate amount of storage and server capacity. If you need to double the overall capacity of a Nutanix deployment, you simply add 2X new nodes. No more guesswork.
- 100% software solution that can run on off-the-shelf servers from all leading server manufacturers
- The entire software stack can be upgraded in a single click, and without disruption to the live environment
- Plus Nutanix-powered infrastructure uses your existing top of the rack switches.
Its important that we connect the dots for our customers on how we improve infrastructure has benefits to their database environment and their line of Business
- Test & dev environment scan be deployed in minutes, built with best practices, and matching production. “Quickly deploy databases in minutes with One-click management that can provision, clone, patch, refresh, and backup in just a few minutes. ”
- Spin up & spin down through automation
- Non-disruptive upgrades and data resiliency to protect from failures means less downtime for tier 0 & 1 instances
- Do more with less and with less complications. Less deploying and more time on LOB
Through HCI, we solved the infrastructure problems created by the overwhelming complexity of legacy architecture, but how does this relate to value for databases?
Enhanced Time to Value & Business Agility
- Web-scale architecture with a single control plane that scales transactional & analytical databases non-disruptively
- Linear performance scaling and localized IO serving the most demanding database workload needs
- One-click database management [provision, clone, patch, refresh, and backup] in just a few minutes
- Deploy infrastructure & databases in minutes, not weeks
- Accelerate Dev/Test deployment by up to 10X(1)
- Improve performance by as much as 3x(1) over existing deployments
Maximize Uptime & Security
- Web-scale architecture self-heals and recovers proactively
- Integrated, automated, app & infra security, data-at-rest encryption & database masking
- Comprehensive DRaaS that converges provisioning, data replication, runbook, security and networking into a single service across private and public clouds
- Automated & standardization processes for DB operations – no more wasted time waiting to update or to spin up Db instances.
- Efficient, integrated copy data management (CDM), snapshot & data reduction capabilities
- Simplified one-click operations to deploy, manage, and support entire database environments
- Invest in growth with reduced TCO by as much 60%(4)
- Eliminate wasteful copy data costs
- Support business initiatives with up to 61%(5) operational efficiency savings
One of the ways we provide
- Deploy a platform for your new database in minutes, not weeks, months - no need to wait for IT to procure, install and configure infrastructure to support your database project
- Meet fluctuating business performance needs on the fly with independent linear scaling of compute and storage resources
- Accelerate database development initiatives with up to 10X faster dev/test deployment times
- Accelerate time-to-market advantages with database platform performance improvements by as much as 20X
- Tackle tier 1 OLTP and OLAP workloads with ease use
- Web-scale architecture with a single control plane that scales transactional & analytical databases non-disruptively
- Linear performance scaling and localized IO serving the most demanding database workload needs
- One-click database management [provision, clone, patch, refresh, and backup] in just a few minutes
DBAs are looking for the same cloudlike simplicity & ease of use experienced by their infrastructure counterparts and apply that to their provisioning, management , & patching. Databases tend to be a very siloed with separate distinct groups running Oracle, SQL Server, Database level groups, and compliance groups. There are a lot of steps involved from the point a DB request comes in and when a DB gets deployed. So the Ability to Automate a lot of the manual error prone steps involved in provisioning or cloning of databases is crucial to key to winning over the DBA teams.
Provisioning Service
Nutanix Era allows DB admins to define standards for their database provisioning needs and provide end-state driven provisioning functionality that includes mission-critical cluster, HA database deployments. Era provisioning service includes:
- Custom software images tailor-made to enterprise needs (PSUs and one-off patches)
- Pre/post create DB scripts insertion
- Complex HA environments support (e.g. Oracle RAC)
- Sophisticated SLAs (continuous, daily, and monthly RPO)
- Predefined/Customizable SLAs based on business requirements
CDM
Just like how easy is the copy and paste operations on your computer, we believe that these operations should be that simple for databases that are terabytes in size. For enterprise databases, for instance, the requirement is not just to copy/ paste of a particular instance but the ability to create clones from any point-in-time. Nutanix Era time machine technology powers the one-click database copy and paste operations from any point in time while maintaining QOS for specific SLAs. Era lifecycle management service includes:
- Fast clone creation (few minutes)
- One-click refresh in few minutes
Database protection
Database protection meaning keeping the good state of the database environment is crucial for any DBA. Many times due to the application or database update there will be issues with the environment. Thus many DBAs would take a snapshot of their environment before any update to ensure they can roll back to the ideal state.
Here Era offer simplicity through one click database snapshots that can take a snapshot of databases in TBs in size in just a few minutes
Database Patching
One of the biggest pain points of DBAs is keeping up with database patches and updates. They want to eliminate database config and version sprawl. DBAs want to have standardization for patching and being able to see what versions of databases are in their environment and apply patches (e.g. security patches) in a timely fasion.
Here Nutanix Era simplifies patching by providing out of place patching automation. Each database will be associated with a patching train. And once a new patch is tested and published. The DBA has a choice to automatically/schedule update of all targeted databases.
Business Continuity and DR decisions are based on business criteria around RPO (how much data you can afford to lose) and RTO (how long the outage can last).
You need to have flexibility and protection at multiple levels. Walk through the different levels of protection that are needed to ensure critical applications and workloads stay up and running and you are able to meet those RPO and RTO demands of the business
- Web-scale architecture self-heals and recovers proactively
- Easily enable DR capabilities with one-click simplicity
- Comprehensive DRaaS that converges provisioning, data replication, runbook, security and networking into a single service across private and public clouds
Chief among these DB licensing costs which can easily spiral out of control. Its important that customer are aware of how our cloud architecture affects their licensing.
- Right sizing - not paying for over-provisioned siloed environments that are not being used
- Doing more with less - More powerful Servers with more Cores and scalable fast storage.
- Consolidating multiple Siloed DB environments into a single platform = less licensing required.