Oracle Database Appliance

Oracle Database Appliance is the ready-made solution integrating servers, storage devices, network equipment, OS, software of management and the Oracle database and intended for a broad spectrum of both specialized, and standard applications.

Oracle Database Appliance the failsafe solution at the expense of a hardware clustering and use of the options Oracle Real Application Clusters. Integrated by software of management as much as possible simplifies process of deployment, setup and support of all solution: installation is executed by clicking of only one button, and updates are made at the same time for all components of a complex.

ODA includes software, servers, the storage device and necessary network equipment. A system supports work of databases, the applications used by the most different types – from the systems of own development to the systems of online transaction processing and data warehouses. The main advantages of a new complex are the compactness, ease and simplicity of its installation and operation that was reached thanks to optimization of the components making it.

Functions

Oracle Database Appliance has unique model of licensing Pay-As-You-Grow ("pay in process of growth") that does it to the most cost-efficient at implementation of databases. Such model allows to license only that number of main cores which is required, allowing to increase database performance by acquisition of new licenses without the need for updating of the equipment. Thus, implementation of Oracle Database Appliance allows to balance expenses on software with growth rates of business and to reach the high performance and readiness of a system without additional costs.

2016: The upgraded Oracle Database Appliance models

On July 12, 2016 the Oracle corporation announced two models of Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) focused on small and medium business. It gives the chance to the enterprises to use the hardware and software systems Oracle Engineered Systems.

The Oracle Database Appliance portfolio allows the organizations to simplify transition to a cloud environment. Customers can execute backup or archiving of crucial data and at any time to transfer workloads to Oracle Cloud. The main characteristic of these ODA models - support of Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

Oracle Database Appliance, (2016)

We are extremely glad to provide power, simplicity and possibilities of Oracle Engineered Systems at the price allowing any organization to save time and money. Expert knowledge of deployment of single copies of databases and clusters of high availability is built in this Oracle Database Appliance family, and they provide communication between systems at the enterprise and cloud environments that all our clients could use the investments effectively. Jim Gargan, senior vice president for the Oracle Converged Infrastructure direction

The Oracle Database Appliance complexes are focused on support of separate copies of databases, consolidation of databases and clusters of high availability.

Characteristics

• the starting price — $18 thousand for a hardware and software system of initial level for management of separate copies of databases or several copies of small volume;
• reduction of time of implementation — customers can unroll a system in 30 minutes;
• NVMe flash drives;
• integration into Oracle Cloud helps to execute backup and archiving of crucial data, to transfer workloads to a cloud in process of readiness.

2012

Oracle spins intrigues around users of SAP

In December, 2012 a number of software SAP products received certificates for work with Oracle Database Appliance. If more precisely, then all SAP products which are based on the middleware of SAP NetWeaver 7.0 above had such opportunity it is stated in the official blog of Oracle. It is also necessary to have the certificate for work with Release 2 Oracle 11g DBMS.

At the same time it is specified that SAP applications should be started by independent machines with Ethernet connection for data exchange with Database Appliances. Thus, the three-level architecture traditional for SAP remains, and users receive several advantages. In particular, it is possible to use any combination of the equipment, operating systems and SAP applications for work with Oracle Database Appliance.

So, for example, it is possible to start the application server of SAP on the AIX and HP-UX platform, having connected it to Oracle Database Appliance. "This flexibility will allow to integrate more easily Oracle Database Appliance into SAP an environment, having left at the same time a layer of the SAP applications without changes", said in explanation of Oracle.

The Oracle Database Appliance hardware consists of two servers, 192 GB of RAM, 24 cores, 12 Tb of disk memory and 292 GB on a solid-state disk. The cost of the solution is about $50 thousand, at the same time licenses for Oracle DBMS are on sale separately.

The announcement of Oracle was made several months later after SAP submitted the version of HANA for medium and small business, HANA Edge. SAP hopes to force out Oracle DBMS from the install base, in particular, key work is carried out transferring users of SAP ERP to HANA.

2011

The Oracle corporation announced at the end of 2011 release of Oracle Database Appliance, the hardware-software device optimized for databases of high availability and constructed using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters on a two-nodal server cluster of Sun Fire with the Oracle Linux operating system.

The Oracle Database Appliance device is the optimized hardware-software system including the software, servers, data storage devices and network equipment. The solution is designed to provide the high level of availability to a broad spectrum of the customized and standard applications using databases such as applications for online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing.

The Oracle Database Appliance device protects databases from failures of servers and storage systems using Oracle Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management technologies respectively.

Oracle Database Appliance offers unique model of licensing "pay-as-you-grow" ("payment in process of growth") for Oracle Database and the accompanying software counting on main core (from 2 to 24 cores). Such pricing assumes gradual payment in process of growth of business without upgrade of hardware.

Providing system monitoring, fast software deployment by "a one click of a key", the integrated installation of program updates and patches for all program stack and also function of an automatic call home in case of machine failures, Oracle Database Appliance helps to reduce costs and resources for creation and system maintenance of databases of high availability.

Oracle Database Appliance X3-2

Among new features there is a support of virtualization and applications from third-party vendors. Oracle also claims that X3-2 allows to reduce costs on licensing, clients can pay now only for those applications which they use. Also OZU differs from the previous hardware platform of X3-2 in the increased volumes of storage (about flash-memory adding). The price of the hardware is 50,000 dollars. The prices of software are ranged depending on already available licenses and applications used by the client.