HP StorageWorks Business Copy XP Media B9330A Prospecto

Lowering database storage complexity and management 
cost with HP Thin Provisioning XP and Oracle Database 

10g and 11g. 

HP StorageWorks Division, December 2007 

Table of contents

 

Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. 2

 

The challenges .................................................................................................................................... 2

 

Solution technology components............................................................................................................ 4

 

Oracle technology components.......................................................................................................... 4

 

Oracle Database 11g................................................................................................................... 4

 

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) .......................................................................................... 4

 

Auto-Extend ................................................................................................................................. 5

 

Oracle table partitions .................................................................................................................. 6

 

HP technology components ............................................................................................................... 6

 

HP StorageWorks XP24000 disk array ........................................................................................... 6

 

HP Thin Provisioning (ThP) ............................................................................................................. 7

 

HP StorageWorks Business Copy XP (BC)........................................................................................ 8

 

HP StorageWorks External Storage XP (ES XP) ................................................................................. 8

 

Case study objectives........................................................................................................................... 9

 

Case study configuration ...................................................................................................................... 9

 

Storage and server hardware configuration ...................................................................................... 10

 

System storage configuration........................................................................................................... 11

 

Case Study ....................................................................................................................................... 11

 

How is XP Thin Provisioning (ThP) configured on the XP24000?........................................................... 12

 

The ASM advantage ...................................................................................................................... 14

 

Oracle Tablespace and Auto-extend................................................................................................. 15

 

ThP threshold and alarms ................................................................................................................ 16

 

Efficiencies and capacity savings during replication of ThP volumes ..................................................... 17

 

Best Practices .................................................................................................................................... 17

 

Conclusion/Summary......................................................................................................................... 18

 

For More Information ......................................................................................................................... 19